Specialist, Talent Acquisition

The Specialist, Talent Acquisition is responsible for managing end-to-end recruitment across Save the Children International's global functions and geographies. The role involves managing a portfolio of live, high-volume roles, ensuring quality and compliance in recruitment practices, and acting as a regional contact point for recruitment advisory and support.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle for an allocated portfolio of roles across SCI's global functions and locations, from briefing through to offer acceptance and handover
• Develop and execute appropriate sourcing strategies for each role, drawing on advertising and direct sourcing as needed
• Manage candidate experience to a high standard at every stage, always ensuring professional representation of SCI
• Coordinate interview and assessment processes efficiently, ensuring panels are briefed, materials are prepared in advance, and decisions are documented clearly
• Manage offers and pre-employment processes in line with SCI policy, promptly escalating complexities or risks to the team manager
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with hiring managers, providing clear advice, market insight and proactive updates
• Manage escalations in own processes effectively and resolve issues transparently, keeping the team manager informed of any risk to timeline, quality or stakeholder satisfaction
• Support strategic engagement with stakeholders, contributing insight to workforce planning and hiring decisions
• Maintain accurate and up to date records in ATS, ensuring all applications are processed in a timely manner within defined SLAs
• Apply SCI’s recruitment policies and procedures consistently, including safeguarding requirements, process compliance, and GDPR-compliant documentation and record-keeping
• Proactively identify and escalate process risks or compliance gaps to the team manager
• Act as the designated TA partner for an assigned region, providing recruitment advisory to Country Office HR teams
• Drive consistency and standardisation by sharing best practice, resources, and where needed, providing direct hiring support
• Attend regular check-ins to maintain visibility of regional hiring demand and context-specific needs and challenges through ongoing partnership with region and People leads
• Actively use consolidated knowledge platforms, tools, templates and guidance
• Promote a culture of knowledge-sharing and continuous learning across the function
• Support the onboarding and development of new team members, sharing knowledge of SCI's systems, processes and stakeholder landscape
• Support the development of TA strategy, processes and standards using operational insight to improve quality of delivery
• Lead or support assigned continuous improvement initiatives, including workflow optimisation, HR technology automation, employer branding, and stakeholder experience
• Embed inclusive hiring practices throughout all recruitment processes, promoting diverse representation and equity in recruitment
• Partner with hiring managers to strengthen inclusive decision-making and reflect SCI's commitment to equity and diversity

Requirements

• Significant experience managing multi-stakeholder recruitment processes at pace and scale, with a strong track record delivering high-quality hiring outcomes across a range of roles and regions
• Experience partnering with stakeholders, advising, influencing and challenging constructively in support of effective decision-making and delivery of strategic hiring goals
• Strong organisational skills, able to manage a portfolio of roles with accuracy and pace
• Proactive approach to recruitment governance and compliance requirements, with a commitment to maintaining high standards of process integrity
• Experience using data, metrics and insight to inform recruitment decisions, identify trends, and improve operational performance
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions in complex, ambiguous or sensitive situations where information may be incomplete
• Good understanding of applicant tracking systems
• Demonstrated ability to operate with cultural awareness, empathy, and sensitivity across diverse contexts, while role modelling Save the Children’s values through integrity and accountability
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt to diverse audiences
• Experience in the international development, humanitarian, or INGO sector (desirable)
• Experience developing or applying tailored talent attraction approaches, with an understanding of local context and talent dynamics (desirable)
• Experience in leadership hiring and/or direct sourcing (desirable)
• Language skills relevant to SCI’s operational geographies, particularly Spanish, highly preferred (desirable)

Skills

• Multi-stakeholder recruitment
• Strategic hiring
• Recruitment Governance
• Recruitment Compliance
• Application Tracking Systems
• Data-driven recruitment
• Recruitment metrics
• Operational Performance Improvement
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Talent attraction strategies
• Leadership hiring
• Direct Sourcing
• Cultural Awareness
• Recruitment portfolio management
• Decision making in ambiguity
• Verbal Communication
• Written Communication

Languages

English, Spanish