Job Opportunity for Program Recruitment Lead at American India Foundation in Gurugram

Talent Acquisition:

● Lead and support manpower forecasting and staffing initiatives across programs.

● Lead custodian for the end-to-end recruitment process for programs, in close coordination with the respective Program HRs for all vacancies in the program (staff & contractors, outsourced, any other). Lead & facilitate optimum efficiency across full cycle of recruitment process from forecast to on boarding.

● Lead & support effective background verification process for all recruits.

● Lead & support process design & adoption of the entire recruitment cycle and stages, including sourcing, screening, selection, negotiation, reference checks, background verifications, offer rollouts, pre joining and post joining support and coordination.

● Lead activities and initiatives to ensure achievement of recruitment TATs, across programs.

● Collaborate with central HRs & Program HRs to build a talent pipeline for niche vacancies.

● Design & deploy Recruitment Dashboards, Trends, Trackers and reports across programs.

● Provide support in writing job descriptions, including designing structures, framing of responsibilities, nomenclatures, and Title management alongside org-wide Program HR practices.

● Design & implement systems and processes to maintain records of end-to-end recruitment activities and collaterals for active & passive vacancies in the Program.

● Lead and participate in selection processes for effective hiring of key team members, on a need basis.

● Train & guide the program’s hiring managers to enable effective hiring.

● Build internal HR capacity for effective recruitments.

● Recommend and manage adoption of hiring best practices.

● Joint custodian of recruitment tools such as LinkedIn.

● Lead & support any other recruitment & on boarding initiatives for programs via Program HRs.

ERP, Data & more:

● Maintain data and MIS up to date across all online & offline database, software and tools for Recruitments.

● Maintain up-to-date job descriptions bank for all programs.

● Support the development and implementation of Recruitment modules on the ERP, lead the Implementation & adoption activities viz recruitment module for user teams, end users and management.

● Design and deploy Recruitment SOPs and SLAs.

● Design & deliver recruitment capacity building across all program teams & Program HRs.

● Custodian of Program hiring matrix.

● Lead the internal redeployment / resource mobilization initiatives for retaining top talent across programs.

Qualifications:

● Master’s degree in Human Resource Development/Management /Industrial Relations from a reputed university/ institute.

Work Experience:

● Minimum 8 years of experience working in a reputed International NGO handling Recruitments for Programs/ Implementation teams.

● Must be adept at problem-solving, including being able to identify issues and resolve them in a timely manner.

● Must have proven experience with recruitment tools such as ATS, LinkedIn, external job portals.

● Must have experience of handling Internships, Campus placements and Volunteers programs in the development sector.

● Must have strong negotiation skills.

● Must have strong attention to detail with analytical mind-set.

● Must have proven ability to work in fast evolving environments, competing priorities and work under pressures.

● The role requires frequent travel in India and across NCR – the incumbent should be comfortable and willing to travel to the Project implementation locations.

Personal Attributes:

● Good relationship-building skills, including the ability to motivate staff effectively.

● Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with a demonstrable ability to lead influence and motivate others.

● Excellent communication skills and abilities, self-confidence, energy and a strong spirit.

● Good Communication Skills.

● Ability to plan and organize a substantial workload that includes complex diverse tasks and responsibilities.

● Ability to work in dynamic and complex business environments with fast-changing needs.

● Sets and maintains high standards of performance for self and effectively encourages other staff to do so.