Talent Officer Full Time

Main Duties:

• Assist in implementing the company recruitment strategies to target and on-board high- quality employees.
• Oversee and mange end-to-end recruitment process from approvals to formulating job description, sourcing, interviewing and extending contracts.
• Manage the recruiting process to meet hiring goals through the use of effective resource management by using ie the Company’s ApplicationTracking System (ORC), relevant job boards and social media.
• Work with internal teams and hiring managers to support with recruitment process.
• Provide recruitment counselling and guidance to hiring managers for ie, selection criteria for candidates.
• Create job descriptions and interview questions that reflect the requirements for each position.
• Identify and refine down the most suitable talent from available candidates.
• Assess candidates’ information, including CVs, portfolios and references.
• Support organizing and attend job fairs and recruitment events to build a strong candidate pipeline and identify talents for the company.
• Collaborate with the internal P&C teams for timely employee on-boarding and orientation.
• Maintain and promote company policies and procedures pertaining to the recruitment process established.

Specific Duties:

• Identify areas for process improvement in the Talent Section and proactively suggest solutions.
• Guide and train new Talent Team members on processes or usage of portals.
• Maintain company’s policy for talent benchmarking, talent assessment and interviewing.
• Manage the entire recruiting lifecycle to meet our various and ever-changing staffing goals across all levels, locations, and business units.
• Source applicants through online channels, such as LinkedIn and other professional networks as well as maintaining relationship with external recruitment and souring agencies.
• Design, plan and execute selection processes (conduct screens & interviews and collaborate with hiring manager).
• Work closely and communicate consistently with hiring managers to foster timeliness, accuracy, and completion of the recruiting process.
• Drive actively the new school recruitment process to ensure staffing in line with approved business plan.
• Provide HQ and Schools recruitment status updates to management weekly.
• Initiate, monitor, review and report candidates background checks and safer recruitment procedures.
• Represent company internally and externally at events with a goal of networking and relationship building with potential candidate communities.
• Manage respective candidate pools to ensure qualified candidates remain engaged in current or future opportunities.
• Support UAEN recruitment and identify/highlight strong potential profiles for future employment.
• Prepare and manage employment contracts and candidates’ communications on employment related matters.
• Issue temp contract extension (when applicable and approved).
• Administer, submit and ensure accuracy of all employment documents for new employees and liaise with GR team for visa and MOL contract processing.
• Coordinate with 3rd party vendors and negotiate contracts where required.
• Assess new agencies or platforms based on offering process technical evaluations.
• Oversee the onboarding process for new HQ employees.
• Update and inform related sections with newly hired employees ie. Payroll, Operations.
• Implement and analyse post boarding surveys and provide related reports.
• Drive weekly Talent reports and ensure accuracy in data submission,
• Keep records of all materials/documents used for recruitment, including interview notes and related paperwork, to share with key stakeholders.
• Be proactive in social media recruitment, vacancy marketing and headhunting.
• Work closely with marketing department to develop creative ways for addressing talent acquisition challenges.
• Share internal vacancies across the group to support transparency and equity.
• Active contribution to achieve the P&C annual scorecard.
• Other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Management or similar

Minimum Experience :

• 2-3 years of experience in Talent Acquisition; Experience in the Education sector of advantage.

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills:

• Fluent English communication skills, written and oral;
• Ability to maintain the highest level of discretion, diplomacy and confidentiality.
• Experience with full-cycle recruiting, using various interview techniques and evaluation methods.
• Pro-active approach towards task or improvement ideas.
• Good understanding of ADEK/similar govt body requirement.
• Good knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems (ie Oracle) and other related job boards.
• Experience in using LinkedIn Talent Solutions to proactively source candidates.
• Experience in mass recruitment.
• Ability to think ahead and out of the box.
• Attention to details with diligent follow up, and able to execute in a timely manner.
• Proficient in using MS Office.
• Work in a highly collaborative and effective manner, both independently and in cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
• Easily adapts to a fast-paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Skilled in multi-tasking and handling pressure.
• Demonstrates accountability for own tasks and responsibilities.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to handle multiple projects at the same time.
• Possess flexibility and has a history of delivering results in a changing and highly ambiguous work environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills, along with customer service and team orientation skills.
• Takes responsibility for own learning and encourages others to the do the same.