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Job Title: Recruitment Manager

Organisation: Educate!

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. We tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it, so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs and drive development in their communities. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.

Job Summary:  Educate! is seeking an enthusiastic and self-driven Recruitment Manager to lead Educate!’s recruitment  team as a critical partner in the organization’s scale up. The recruitment manager will lead the Recruitment Strategy Development & Implementation, oversee the recruitment Performance Management, Lead the Recruitment Experimentation and Learning, Manage the end-to-end recruitment conversion funnel from marketing to mobilization and documentation of the same.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Recruitment Strategy Implementation

• Co-design youth recruitment strategy to ensure that organisation youth impact objectives are met to maximum efficiency towards the user persona profile.
• Create a sustainable recruitment framework that meets annual youth target impact goals of the VIP bootcamp.
• Inform recruitment roadmap in liaison with LEEP manager & DPI before drawing quarterly roadmaps.
• Creation of marketing &  recruitment budget model that maximises value for youth and organisation.
• Communicate Product marketing and recruitment strategy, creating alignment among stakeholders.
• Update recruitment funnel as is needed & incorporate into recruitment roadmap.
• Manage monthly marketing budget
• Analyse and report data to measure effectiveness of strategies and campaigns.
• Establish relationships with organisations, institutions, media and agencies to support program recruitment goals.
• Develop recommendations to grow the Educate! and VIP Bootcamp Brand through creative and cost efficient marketing campaigns.
• Maintain agency relationships by setting goals, providing media assets, performance feedback, and managing budgets
• Work with tech and implementation teams to ensure user experience is as frictionless as possible, and make recommendations to improve conversion rates at each step of the user journey.
• Recruitment Performance Management
• Organises recruitment Team work streams including leading recruitment periodical check in meetings.
• Sets motivating monthly and weekly recruitment targets and provides accountability on progress towards achieving of Org youth reach goals.
• Inform recruitment team structure and capacity making proposals after defining the strategy.
• Evaluate team capacity to perform roles and articulate before execution an empowerment plan for different teams.
• Maintain, retain teams balance in workload
• Lead robust system to track & manage team performance for departments with agile ways of working & processing feedback loops.
• Document team engagements and performance plans with HR principles of staff career & professional development.
• Execute fair motivation & incentive strategies to aid strategy for recruitment team
• Recruitment Experiment and Learning
• Based on past work, make experiment priority and backlog plans for recruitment channels, systems where necessary and staffing structure.
• Use sprint method to run experiments to improve recruitment strategy for staffing, channels, systems as priority to have more concrete model framework for VIP youth recruitment.
• Create recruitment learning agendas aimed at understanding ways to make recruitment more effective and cost efficient.
• Document & share experiment results incorporating agreed upon learnings into the main recruitment strategy
• Bring expertise from recruitment space to work with existing teams & resources.
• Research about similar organisation approaches to impact & link relevant insights to our work.
• Grow Institutional channels to recruitment before establishing a mechanism to scale them.
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment conversion funnel from marketing to mobilisation and documentation of the same.
• Lead team marketing, recruitment, engagement and mobilisation strategy to enable the development of a database of quality registrants
• Work towards standardizing the marketing, recruitment, engagement and mobilisation processes and systems that are scalable and in line with the recruitment vision scale.
• Have safeguards and controls for marketing, recruitment, engagement & mobilisation activities to provide effective results
• Identify and suggest recruitment tech processes and tools user requirements and align with monitoring and tech teams to build simple & low tech solutions.
• Centralise all tracking & documentation for the department.
• Establish tracking & documentation needs at each stage of the funnel to draw applied systems necessary including dashboard requirements for roadmaps in collaboration with Tech & performance metrics leads.
• Promote culture of documentation & use of data, reports to work, manage and improve.
• Lead recruitment to mobilisation retrospectives & align incorporation of lessons to next iterations for every recruitment drive.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in marketing/business related courses, (Master’s degree will be an added advantage).
• At least five years of diverse work experience in a managerial role.
• At least three years of experience in recruiting, training and organizational development.
• Hands on experience in lead marketing and sales managerial role at scale size operations in development for social businesses.
• At least one year experience in experimentation and prototyping.
• Knowledge of building systems to manage people & work.
• Experience with managing the end to end marketing conversion funnel.
• Experience with project planning & Management.
• Familiarity with Partnership and stakeholder management.
• Advanced skills in data analysis presentation, proposal & report writing.
• Excellent analytical skills combined with a proactive, energetic approach to problem solving.
• Be proactively self-engaged in research and innovations in the field of Recruitment.
• Excel in an entrepreneurial, rapidly-growing and independent environment with minimal supervision
• Eagerly jump on opportunities to exceed expectations and solve new challenges autonomously
• Exhibit commitment to the professional development of him/herself, developing new skills whenever necessary
• People Relations skills
• Attention to detail
• Personal organization and Coordination skills
• Good written & verbal communication skills
• Vocational skills
• Creativity
• Ability to use the google drive (docs, sheets, slides and forms)
• High level of integrity

How to Apply:

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