Country: Switzerland
Closing date: 31 Jan 2018
Purpose of the post
This position sits within the Talent Acquisition and Sourcing Unit (TAQ), which is in charge of sourcing, attracting and recruiting specialist and generalist staff to meet the ICRC's global talent needs.
The Geneva based Global HR Marketing Coordinator works closely with the Head of HR Marketing Unit (HRMK). Supporting our global talent attraction activities the postholder will own team support tasks including implementing a centralised activity and budget planning and monitoring system; improving communication flows between teams; creating and sharing team metrics. The postholder is also the project lead for a key candidate interaction project: overhauling our careers site and improving candidate application experience.
These tasks are combined with responsibility for delivering the normal HR Marketing Officer role for Switzerland mainly - positioning the ICRC in the region as a leading humanitarian employer of choice through a mix of HR Marketing activities targeting the right talent available in the short, medium and long term wherever they are to be found.
Main duties and responsibilities
Online Candidate Experience Project
- Serve as project lead for development and integration of candidate interaction project: overhauling our careers site and improving candidate application experience in close cooperation with the internal technical lead teams, and Communication and Talent Acquisition teams as a whole
- Serve as quality assurance and content lead for associated communications elements (career page, job portal and micro site)
- Once this tool is operational, he/she will oversee the systematic production and analysis of refined candidate attraction and pipeline metrics
- In collaboration with colleagues ensure a coherent global identity in ICRC’s online careers and marketing outreach presence and engagement
Team Coordination
- Assists the Head of HRMK in negotiating external agreements, contracts, support packages and provides follow up service on a daily basis in order to implement them (metrics exchange, financial follow up, deadlines, annexes negotiations, etc.)
- Creates and owns annual pre-planned event, content, and activity “calendar”, aligned to team strategy
- Maintains regular contact with peers in ICRC's global HRMK setup, reviewing and driving improvements in team communication and information sharing
- Assists the Head of HRMK in issue and solution identification
- Lead in rolling out global training and toolkits to global team
- Contributes to and participates in team meetings, events, discussions, serving as coordinator to ensure global coherence
Operational Delivery
- Represents the ICRC at different platforms of engagement and with various interlocutors (academics and relevant professional environments). Makes presentations at events, promoting and branding the ICRC as an international organization with a specific humanitarian mandate
- Presents the ICRC as an attractive employer of choice in the humanitarian world
- Provides expert brand strategies, using advertising and networking with associations, social networks, Diaspora, academic circles, schools, universities, conducting HR marketing campaigns (short, mid and long term approach, depending on needs and relevance)
- Develops search techniques and approaches to carry out talent sourcing at relevant events (e.g. conferences, career fairs) and attends where required
- Coaches suitable candidates and introduces them to the application procedures
Metrics & Reporting
- Global budget and activity tracking to enable management oversight and prioritisation
- Collection of the global dashboard contributions, drafting consolidated reporting and providing accessible reporting and metrics directly to management and others
- Acts as an interface with People Analytics team, providing relevant, up-to-date and adapted candidate attraction metrics, in order to feed the ICRC’s strategic management tool (Tableau)
Education and experience required
- At least 5 years relevant working experience in recruitment, marketing, or similar
- Professional experience with advertising, networking and recruitment (in person and on social media LinkedIn, Facebook)
- Experience of coordinating activity and budgets of a complex team
- ICRC work experience is an asset
- Experience in human resource and project management is an asset
- Fully conversant with IT tools, ideally with Project management systems
- Experience of improving candidate experience in ATS highly desirable
- Excellent presentation skills
- Must have an excellent command of English (oral and written); a working knowledge of French and/or German is highly desirable. Any other language of ICRC interest an asset
Desired profile and skills
- High degree of autonomy and proven organisational skills
- Ability to adjust and adapt your working methods to changing circumstances and needs
- Proven ability to take initiative
- Interpersonal skills fostering productive personal relationships
- Aptitude for projecting a positive image of the ICRC as a future employer
- Proven interest in working in a diverse, multicultural environment
- Respect for confidentiality and HR ethics
- Handle stress well
- Willing to travel
Additional information
For further details, please contact Markus Dolder (hiring manager) and/or Aleksandra Popovic (recruiter).
- Location : Geneva
- Type of contract : Maximum-term
- Type of position : Resident
- Grade: B3
- Activity rate : 100%
- Length of assignment : Until 31.12.2018
- Estimated start date : ASAP
- Hiring manager : Markus Dolder
- Recruiter : Aleksandra Popovic
- Application deadline : Wednesday, 31st January 2018
How to apply:
To apply, please visit: http://bit.ly/2mT9f6q