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Job Title:  Recruiting Lead

Organisation: Wave Mobile Money

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Wave Mobile Money is building a cashless Africa – starting in Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Uganda & now in Mali. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash. We’re solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don’t always work, you can still send money with Wave.

Job Summary:  Our team has doubled over the past 6 months and we will continue to grow rapidly this year. We are looking for an experienced and driven Recruiting Lead who is excellent at evaluating and attracting solid talents. You will manage the recruiting team in Uganda and more teams as we scale in our English-speaking markets.

You will inspire our team of top performers by setting a high standard on analytics, process design, experimentation. Also, build strong relationships with team leads and become a trusted thought partner in solving how to scale their teams to achieve our mission in these markets.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of high-performing recruiters and report on their performance.
• Coordinate with department managers to forecast future hiring needs and partner with them to build the teams they need to scale.
• Thrive in taking less-well-defined projects and run with them without needing extensive management.
• Deepen our culture of experimentation, analytics, and learning on the recruiting team. Ensure that our ATS (Greenhouse) contains clean, consistent, and accurate data. Run experiments to understand how we can optimize every step in our pipeline.
• Develop diverse pipeline strategies and be the thought leader on designing recruiting processes (such as structured interviewing, interviewer training, use of Metaview and other emerging tools) that result in a fair, inclusive, and exceptional candidate experiences.
• Proactively use data to flag problems and improvement points in the recruitment process.
• Source diverse world-class candidates who are both technically excellent and exceptional culture fits.
• Deeply understand and be an ambassador for our culture, values, and habits at Wave.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Seven years of HR/ Talent acquisition experience
• Five years of experience of ownership of a full recruitment cycle (sourcing, interviewing, hiring)
• Three years of experience managing a high performing team
• Fluent in English.
• Experience with online networking tools, such as LinkedIn with experience conducting searches on recruitment databases to identify and access new professional networks is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a very fast-paced environment with multiple competing priorities in a global business culture.
• Experience using ATS software is a must, preferably greenhouse
• Experience using modern tech tools like google calendar, slack, zoom is an added advantage

Desired:

• Are excited by our vision of financial inclusion in Africa
• Are incredibly adaptable and experienced in working in a fast-paced environment
• Enjoy networking and meeting new people and thrive at building new relationships
• Are incredibly curious about how pieces fit together and use this learning to build optimal solutions
• Are adept at independently navigating complex relationships
• Are tech savvy and enjoy automating processes
• Make data driven decisions and make use of analytics to understand problems
• Dive into new challenges and enjoy identifying creative solutions – hiring for every role at Wave is unique!

How to Apply:

All interested and qualified candidates should apply online at the link below.

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