Talent Acquisition Lead at Airtel Tanzania

At Airtel Africa, we act with passion, energy, and a can-do attitude. Innovation with an entrepreneurial spirit drive us. If you like “ordinary”, then we are not for you.

We champion diversity. We anticipate, adapt, and deliver solutions that enrich the lives of communities we serve. we roll up our sleeves to win with our customers.

By choosing Airtel, you choose to be part of a winning team. All this in addition to a brilliant opportunity to build a career in your field of expertise, across our different operating companies in Africa.

Airtel Africa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and remain fully committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Responsibilities

Effective talent sourcing strategies

• Identify internal and external channels of recruiting that ensures speedy identification and engagement of best fit talent
• Effectively manage relationship and Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)  with external vendors/recruitment consultants
• Ensure accessibility to talents for critical roles

Recruitment OPEX optimization

• Ensure effective optimization of recruitment OPEX through appropriate channel identification.
• Accountable for optimal use of recruitment portal

Strengthened Employer brand perception

• Environment and competition activity scanning and recommendations to ensure continuous attractiveness of Airtel as an employer
• Effective relationship management with educational and professional institutions, recruitment and placement agencies.
• Liaise with professional institutions to ensure Airtel Tanzania presence as employer of choice

World Class On-Boarding Programme for new appointees

• Drive qualitative induction on Airtel Tanzania culture, processes and systems to ease new appointees into their roles
• Ensure effective on-boarding implementation to manage pre-mature attrition

Outsourcing Management

• Ensure roles are filled timely
• Ensure effective onboarding of all outsourced staff
• Effectively manage relationship and Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) with outsourced services  

Availability of a pool of talents as successors for key operational and leadership roles within the organisation

• Develop top talent database for Airtel Tanzania
• Facilitate succession planning for key leadership and operational roles across the organization

Background verification 

• Ensure all new employees have completed a comprehensive background check
• Effectively manage relationship and Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) with external vendors in BVC 

Champion of Policies with talent Acquistion Function

• Ensure all policies and processes with talent Acquisition are updated 

Records management 

• Ensure Proper Filling/Documentation for all employees 

All other duties as may be assigned from time to time

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business, or a related field required
• Master’s in business or human resources management or a related field preferred would be desirable
• Minimum of 6 years of comprehensive recruiting experience with demonstrated experience in high volume recruiting
• Experience managing Outsourcing services 
• A professional qualification of CIPD, SHRM
• Knowledge of employment and labor legislations and global best practices in talent management
• Recruitment strategy development and implementation
• Ability to build and maintain solid business relationships
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical skills, including use of data, problem-solving
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Ability to influence, negotiate and create value within all levels of the organization