Vfi Leadership Recruiter

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life.
We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children's life stories
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

**Job Description**:
VisionFund is World Vision's microfinance provider serving vulnerable clients through loans, savings, and insurance.
We enable families to grow their livelihoods in hard to reach, rural locations in 28 countries so that caregivers can create secure futures for their children.
The network of microfinance institutions employs 7,200 staff serving one million clients who support 4.3 million children.
The value of loans disbursed last year was $613 million.
- You as the Leadership Recruiter will be helping shape the future of the organization, by identifying Senior level talent with the passion to bring brighter futures for children; empowering families to create incomes and jobs; unlocking economic potential for communities to thrive._

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Client Management, Customer Service & Strategy Development
Support the building of National Office (NO) Board and VisionFund International (VFI) leadership capacity, and facilitate their participation in National Director/CEO, leadership selection processes (Hay Grade Level 18+), and C-Suite roles per WVI and VFI governance guidelines and in conjunction with Regional Office and NO People & Culture (P&C.)
Assist in the creation of internal marketing materials to promote the Executive Recruiting function partnership-wide.
- Develop, build, and influence relationships with Regional Leaders, Boards, VFI leadership and other hiring managers, and P&C staff.
Build capacity of these staff to engage with and follow talent acquisition policies, procedures and systems, as required.
- Meet with Regional Leaders, Boards, and VFI leadership to identify and determine skills, knowledge, capabilities and preferred experience required for the position, including contextual challenges.
Lead them in assessing vacancy requirements/recruiting needs and developing recruitment strategies and plans for the coming fiscal year.
- Provide full cycle recruitment process support to hiring managers and P&C staff.
- Anticipate emerging organizational staffing trends and external market trends in regards to senior leadership NGO roles.
- Proactively identify and develop effective sourcing strategies for ND and VFI leadership positions, manage the various leadership sourcing pools, referral networks and talent pipelines by region (e.g.
networking contacts, cold calling, system queries/searches, religious institutions, organizations, social media, college/university alumni.)
- Develop, design and implement recruiting plan for assigned positions (e.g.
advertisements, networking tools.)
- Maintain knowledge of and sensitivity to the constantly changing environment of the marketplace relative to the sourcing and recruitment of qualified leaders.
Participate and facilitate virtual and in-person panel interviews and lead debriefing selection process, when possible.
Manage the administrative details of the offer process (i.e.
contract/offer letter, initiate PAF, paperwork, coordinate on-boarding, international relocation, etc., in conjunction with Talent Acquisition Administrator and other P&C contacts).
- Present and negotiate employment contract with external and internal applicants.
General
- Utilize Workday recruitment efficiently to ensure consistent, timely and accurate data entry.
- Maintain current knowledge of applicable laws, regulations and trends in recruitment, WVI organizational policies, benefits and compensation, relocation and repatriation.
- Consult Talent Acquisition leadership and WVI Legal as necessary.
- Conduct recruitment responsibilities in a professional, service-oriented, responsive, innovative, ethical and cost effective manner in accordance with WVI goals and Christian principles.
- Supervise interns, temporary staff, Talent Acquisition Coordinator or entry-level international staffing specialists if needed.
KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent of 7+ years of on the job training; in-house recruitment and/or executive/contingency search, including talent acquisition sourcing.
- Full command of English (written and spoken).
Knowledge of French/Spanish would be an added advantage.
- Successful track record of negotiating, influencing and providing high-level customer service at the most senior levels of an organization with proven highly relational, strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) is required.
- Experience in recruitment of leaders (Senior INGO leaders, National/Country Directors, MFI CEOs, and Chiefs o