Global HR and Recruitment Specialist

Reports to: Head of People

Type of role: Permanent

Working location: Option to work remotely or from our office in Tokai, Cape Town

Start date: ASAP

About GVI

Looking to find a real purpose in your career again? At GVI, our teams bring a range of specialised skills together for a common goal: supporting a more sustainable future.

GVI is an international multi-award-winning social enterprise. We offer conservation and community development programs in 13 countries, all aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and led by our teams and experts from the communities we operate in.

Working at GVI is fast-paced and fun. We value passion, authenticity and innovation, and we treat our stakeholders with compassion and respect.

About the role

GVI is looking for a highly personable, proactive, detail-oriented HR and recruitment professional to join our People Team. This role is suited to someone who has recruited for, and on boarded individuals across the globe, and who ideally has a background in tourism or international development, as the role will assist our international ‘field’ teams who are based in 17 different locations. There will be a strong administration and compliance focus, but the role will also require a highly dynamic, flexible individual who is able to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds.

The People Team, where this role will sit, is currently a multifaceted team of three, who take care of everything people-related across our global team including HR, recruitment, onboarding, office management, well-being, training, development, and ongoing engagement. We are currently based in Cape Town, as part of the Central Support office, however, due to our ability to work remotely, this role has the ability to work anywhere, provided it’s in line with Cape Town working hours.

Role and responsibilities

This role has 3 goals:

• Field recruitment specialist:

  • Become the field expert with recruitment: research and suggest best advertising platforms for unique roles, place successful candidates in a timeous manner

• Field onboarding and compliance:

• Once the successful candidate is signed on, responsible for getting the new employee into the field effectively. This includes:

  • Introduce to, and assist Field Support Manager with pre-departure training/insurance enrolment
  • Liaise with relevant Program Manager for visa/travel logistics and assist new employee to arrive in-country effectively
  • Ensure new employee has completed new starter forms
  • Ensure new employee has all documentation uploaded to BamboooHR & is compliant on all fronts (criminal check, passport, contract, new starter forms, certifications. etc)
  • Log ticket with IT for relevant system setup (Skype, email, etc.)

• Check in 1-week post arrival to close the loop

• Ensure ongoing compliance of field documentation

• Field people representative:

  • Attends relevant field meetings and feeds necessary info back to People team efficiently, working collaboratively to find necessary solutions
  • Meets with Program Managers initially to understand each hub’s individual staffing conditions on base, and then bi-monthly to understand up to date hub’s people-related needs/conditions

About you

If you are ambitious, purpose-driven, and you have a great sense of humour,  we want to meet you. As an organisation, we know that welcoming a broad range of people with unique identities makes us a more powerful workforce and we are committed to evolving our diversity, equity and inclusion practice.

Required professional skills and experience:

• Minimum 3+ years experience in global recruitment and HR - ideally working in the tourism industry
• Experience working for a travel organisation that hires globally and/or relocates individuals to different locations is highly advantageous
• Tertiary education in a relevant field is also advantageous

Personal attributes:

• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to connect with candidates and team members across the globe
• Effective team player with a growth mindset, and a strong desire to help people
• Technologically savvy - with the ability to manage job ads across different digital platforms as well as learn new applications and software
• Excellent attention to detail, with an innate ability to create and optimise processes for efficiency
• High sense of urgency, with the ability to multitask, prioritise and organise yourself effectively
• Flexible, adaptable self-starter who is proactive and always open to innovating and trying something new

Benefits

We’re not interested in empty perks like having a coffee culture. We do have coffee – if you join our central team in Cape Town, you could find yourself roped into coffee and snack challenges if you visit the office, but you could just as easily be taking your morning coffee at Roots cafe, high in the mountains of northern Thailand if you work on a base. Here’s what our global team enjoys:

• Social fund
• Training fund
• Half days on the first Friday of each quarter
• Collaborative, flexible culture
• Transparency – hear directly from the CEO consistently
• We laugh a lot, genuinely care about and support each other, and do the occasional dress-up

You can find out more about the type of work GVI does and who we are as an organisation here. In line with this role, you can also learn more about the types of roles GVI recruits for across the globe on our careers portal at https://gvi.bamboohr.com/jobs/.

To apply

Please send your CV, and LinkedIn link along with a cover letter stating why you feel you would be best suited to this position at GVI.

Please note: We will do our utmost to respond to all applicants, however, given the large volume of applications we receive, this isn't always possible. If you do not hear back from us within three-four weeks, please take it that on this occasion your application was unsuccessful.