Job Opportunity for Talent Acquisition Specialist at Wadhwani Foundation in Bengaluru

About Wadhwani Foundation (www.wfglobal.org):

Mission: Accelerating economic development in emerging economies through high-value job creation Objectives: Enabling the creation of 10M jobs and placement of 25M by 2030 across 20-25 emerging economies.

Wadhwani Foundation is a not-for-profit with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship, innovation and skills development. Founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, today the Foundation is scaling impact in 25 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America through the following Initiatives:

1. Wadhwani Advantage: Accelerating the growth of tens of thousands of SMEs by providing personalized, on-demand knowledge and consulting resources through an AI-enabled mobile platform to create millions of new jobs.

2. Wadhwani Entrepreneur: Inspiring, educating, and enabling Startup entrepreneurs

· Wadhwani Venture Fastrack: Maximizes success rates of early-stage startups with enhanced business traction and funding opportunities

· Wadhwani NEN: Empowers students with knowledge and skills through Courses and Startup Labs to create high-potential startups

· Wadhwani Inspire: Establishes a nationwide culture of entrepreneurship

3. Wadhwani Opportunity: Empowering millions of students with 21st century employability skills that drive family supporting wages.

4. Wadhwani AI (a partner program): A first-of-its-kind AI research institute in the world – a non-profit dedicated exclusively to applying AI for social good.

5. Wadhwani Catalyst: Invest in high quality entrepreneurs with scalable business models across emerging markets, with a focus in India. The fund will catalyse businesses across sectors, with the overall objective of accelerating economic development by creating livelihoods/ jobs.

6. Wadhwani Institute of Technology and Policy (WITP): Support government and civil society at large with the dual mission of – (1) Providing information, insights, and recommendations for the application of technology for policy making, policy implementation, and policy outcomes measurement. (2) Creating a Technology-focused Training Academy for upskilling policy makers, bureaucrats and technocrats with relevant technologies and the application of the same to their respective ministries and missions.  

Our Culture:

• WF is a global not-for-profit, and works like a start-up, in a fast-moving, dynamic pace where change is the only constant and flexibility is the key to success.
• Three mantras that we practice across job roles, levels, functions, programs and initiatives, are Quality, Speed, Scale, in that order.
• We are an ambitious and inclusive organization, where everyone is encouraged to contribute and ideate. We are intensely and insanely focused on driving excellence in everything we do.
• We want individuals with the drive for excellence, and passion to do whatever it takes to deliver world class outcomes to our beneficiaries. We set our own standards often more rigorous than what our beneficiaries demand, and we want individuals who love it this way.
• We have a creative and highly energetic environment – one in which we look to each other to innovate new solutions not only for our beneficiaries but for ourselves too. Open to collaborate with a borderless mentality, often going beyond the hierarchy and siloed definitions of functional KRAs, are the individuals who will thrive in our environment.
• This is a workplace where expertise is shared with colleagues around the globe. Individuals uncomfortable with change, constant innovation, and short learning cycles and those looking for stability and orderly working days may not find WF to be the right place for them.
• Finally, we want individuals who want to do greater good for the society leveraging their area of expertise, skills and experience.

The foundation is an equal opportunity firm with no bias towards gender, race, colour, ethnicity, country, language, age and any other dimension that comes in the way of progress.

Join us and be a part of us!

Job Description:

The Role Context: As a recruitment specialist, you will contribute to the Foundations goals by focusing and delivering the best in class recruitment services, building excellent relationships with stakeholders, and enabling success by attracting talent from challenging and niche marketplaces. The role is responsible for day-to-day operational aspects of the recruitment deliverables. A key objective of the role is to ensure high quality service delivery and customer satisfaction is consistently maintained and achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand job roles, interact with hiring managers, and ensure JDs are clearly defined
• Source for all levels / job roles, through direct channels and networks, and deliver in-house sourcing capability to the extent of 90%
• Manage of end to end hiring of positions, including screening, scheduling, interviewing, offer negotiations, offer roll out and onboarding
• Stay updated on all of the Foundation programs, and pitch the role / organization to the candidates
• Attract and retain the attention of right talent through the interview process, and ensure high candidate satisfactions scores
• Continually seek out opportunities for process improvements, thus increasing customer satisfaction
• Ensure recruitment KPIs are met in terms of Cost, Quality and Time.
• Stay abreast with the recruitment trends, talent market, and advice management/hiring managers on the latest trends
• Drive employee referral program to build a strong pipeline of talent
• Ensure closure of positions through the empaneled partners (contingent workforce, search firms, job posting agencies, temporary staffing agencies etc.)
• Maintain all records, data, analysis in the defined format. 

Skills & Experience: 

• Applicants must hold a relevant post-graduate degree in Human Resources, MBA or allied disciplines
• Minimum 4 to 6 years of relevant experience
• experience in hiring Tech roles and non Tech roles
• Experience in both domestic and international recruitment, including ability to do & handle search mandates
• Highly developed sense of ethics, integrity and confidentiality; attention to details, and ability to meet deadlines; willingness to put in extra working hours, as necessary
• Team player; with good interpersonal skills, willing to work in a multicultural environment with teams in different countries
• Ability to interact effectively at all levels and across diverse cultures
• Good English Language skills, both spoken and written
• Energetic, confidence, maturity and interpersonal sensitivity
• Strong skills in using technology, including knowledge of MS office applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of working on any ATS tool.