Recruitment & Selection Lead

Location: South Africa
Work model: Fully remote (can be based anywhere in South Africa). You need to be legally eligible to work in SA to be considered.
Salary: R30k-R40k CTC

Why youd want to work here..

• Join a mission-led NGO that uses education and tech to reduce inequality and youth unemployment by creating pathways into high-value digital and tech careers

• Fully remote with intentional in-person connection time in Johannesburg or Cape Town a few times a year plus an annual all-team event focused on alignment and connection

• Comprehensive benefits including medical aid and a retirement annuity

• A values-driven culture built around impact community learning accountability trust and joy at work

• High levels of ownership and autonomy youre trusted as an adult to deliver not micromanaged

• A genuinely collaborative kind team that believes in their learners and in each other

• The chance to design and scale a recruitment engine that opens life-changing opportunities for thousands of young people every year

About our client..
Our client is a global fully remote NGO building a community of young people social innovators employers and funders to create real pathways to livelihoods. They run a series of labs from skills training to real-world paid gigs and support into long-term work to help marginalised youth move into sustainable future-fit careers in areas like data web development and design.

Theyre impact-obsessed data-informed and deeply learner-centred. If you care about using recruitment systems and data to change lives (not just fill vacancies) this is a powerful place to do it.

What the job involves..

• Owning the end-to-end recruitment and selection strategy for all programmes and projects from lead generation through to onboarding selected candidates

• Designing and continuously improving scalable recruitment processes that can handle tens of thousands of applicants per year while staying human fair and inclusive

• Developing and maintaining clear compliant recruiting procedures and SOPs across sourcing screening interviewing and selection

• Creating and managing an annual recruitment calendar including bootcamps application deadlines and communication plans

• Planning and coordinating recruitment marketing campaigns with internal teams and agencies including paid social media and other digital channels

• Partnering with Data and programme teams to ensure clean structured applicant data that can be used for decision-making across the Skills and Experience Labs

• Tracking and analysing funnel metrics (volume conversion time-to-fill cost-per-hire) and using insights to refine processes and tests

• Leading coaching and developing a small recruitment team setting clear targets doing regular check-ins and performance reviews and building a collaborative data-forward culture

• Acting as the connector between recruitment and internal stakeholders (Skills Experience Placement Partnerships Project Operations) to ensure recruitment is aligned with demand and capacity

• Championing a fair inclusive and positive candidate experience including timely responses to queries and clear empathetic communication via email help desk and WhatsApp

• Overseeing applicant tracking systems and databases ensuring data hygiene accurate tagging and accessible assessment records

• Producing regular reports and dashboards on funnel health candidate demographics bootcamp outcomes and readiness for placement and sharing insights with leadership

• Identifying bottlenecks in the funnel testing solutions and leading pilots for new sourcing methods automation tools and assessment techniques

• Working with internal teams to match candidates to the right pathways labs and gigs and managing the handover into onboarding so that transitions are smooth and well-informed

• Ensuring that all recruitment practices are compliant with policies labour laws data privacy regulations and inclusive hiring standards

What you need to be considered..

• 5 years experience in recruitment or talent acquisition with at least 2 years in a lead or management role

• Proven experience designing or managing recruitment processes and supervising a small team

• Strong systems and process design skills able to map optimise and scale recruitment workflows across multiple campaigns

• High level of data literacy: comfortable using an ATS CRM and analytics tools and turning funnel metrics into practical improvements

• Experience working closely with cross-functional teams (e.g. programme delivery project managers external partners or clients)

• Hands-on experience planning and managing paid social-media recruitment campaigns (e.g. Meta LinkedIn TikTok)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills able to engage candidates brief stakeholders and write clear documentation and SOPs

• Solid understanding of labour laws data privacy and inclusive hiring practices

• A genuine commitment to social impact and reducing inequality ideally with a strong interest in education youth development and/or tech

• Comfortable working fully remotely with the discipline and self-management that requires

• A relevant bachelors degree (e.g. HR Industrial Psychology Business Organisational Development or similar) is preferred

Bonus points if you..

• Have experience in high-volume assessment-heavy recruitment (e.g. graduate programmes learnerships bootcamps)

• Have worked in an NGO social enterprise EdTech or youth employability context

• Bring hands-on experience with South African labour legislation and POPIA in a recruitment context

• Have implemented or optimised an ATS or CRM or led a migration between systems

• Are comfortable presenting data and insights to senior stakeholders and helping drive strategic decisions

• Have experience working in fully remote distributed teams across time zones

• Are energised by experimentation testing new sourcing channels assessments or automations and sharing what you learn with the team