Job description:
The Talent Acquisition Manager at CoGrammar has the crucial role of creating and implementing strategies for talent acquisition, while also supporting on talent retention, management and progression, through an understanding of CoGrammar’s medium to long term vision and priorities.
In this role, you will be building a diverse and skilled team at one of the fastest growing startups in South Africa.
You will develop and guide CoGrammar’s Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and oversee talent acquisition for three functions - academic staff for HyperionDev, code reviewers for our niche code-review-as-a-service team, and core team members for CoGrammar.
You will set the company-wide talent acquisition strategy in collaboration with the Human Resources and People Operations teams. You will drive talent acquisition both strategically and operationally, understanding our company culture and individual roles to recruit employees with a strong fit to the role and company. You will devise creative, non-traditional methods to attracting talent for sourcing candidates both online and offline (think open recruitment days, career events, developing partnerships, and more).
You will also be involved in training & development of department leads on matters crucial to the business such as scorecard development for identified roles, skills gap assessment within their team, workforce planning, and strategizing for attracting the right kind of talent.
To be successful in this role, you will be expected to:
- > Understand the vision and objectives of the company to visualize the right kind of talent for roles within various departments, and create a suitable talent acquisition strategy for the business;
- > Develop our employer brand and Employee Value Proposition (EVP);
- > Drive talent acquisition both strategically and operationally, managing a team of internal recruiters;
- > Understand our company culture and individual roles to recruit employees with a strong fit to the role and company;
- > Participate in workforce planning to guide recruitment and retention, working alongside department leads;
- > Work with the executive team and department leads to assess and identify gaps in skills/values/competencies, on individual basis and team basis, for creating targeted training & development plans;
- > Build and manage relationships with external recruitment partners and hiring partners.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of proven experience in talent acquisition and managing the full recruitment cycle;
- Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (Greenhouse preferred);
- Proficiency in using social networks to post job ads and source candidates;
- A strong ability to multi-task within timelines;
- Good analytical skills to use hiring metrics to inform strategy and process improvement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Excellent time-management and task-management skills;
- A problem-solving and positive attitude;
- Start-up mentality and the desire to see the team succeed;
- An interest in education and technology.
Preferable
- Experience in human resources and people management functions;
- Relevant certificate, diploma or degree;
- Experience in a fast-paced tech startup environment.
About company:
CoGrammar is an edtech startup that is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap. We achieve this by integrating human mentorship and code review into the world's leading tech education brands. CoGrammar has also built and scaled its own coding education product - HyperionDev - which supports learners from over 40 countries in changing into fulfilling tech careers. HyperionDev rebranded to CoGrammar in August 2018.CoGrammar is recognised as one of the top edtech startups in Europe, Middle East, and Africa and in 2016 won first prize in Facebook's Innovation Challenge, gaining financial backing from both Facebook and Google. CoGrammar was originally launched from the University of Cambridge by Computer Science graduates and our senior leadership comprises of world-leading talent out of places such as Google, Amazon, Groupon, and 2U. We're a people-first company with a purpose that underlines everything we do. We're obsessed with the potential in people and challenge them to do their best work. We embrace a culture of growth and learning to deliver on our vision and ours is a relentless quest for improvement.