Talent Acquisition Manager at Auditor-General of South Africa

Apply by: 6 October 2026

Job description

Strategic Function 

• Responsible for effective and efficient execution of the AGSA talent sourcing programmes, practices, and initiatives for, senior manager and above roles.
• Understanding the strategy of your stakeholder and ensure that the talent sourced are in line with that strategy. 
• Support the implementation of the People Portfolio BSC initiatives at centre level.
• Support the implementation of an organisational talent brand and strategies that position the organisation as the employer of choice for internal and external top talent.
• Support customisation of the organisation’s talent brand proposition to relevant business units.

Product Management 

Talent Sourcing:

• Manage the hiring plans for all vacancies across the AGSA. 
• Provide Business with project plans and SLAs, enabling the business to have full confidence in your execution of their hiring plans especially senior manager and above.
• Develop talent acquisition plans in conjunction with the business partner and the leadership of the business units. 
• Manage partnerships with business partners and hiring managers, to deliver workforce and talent acquisition plans.
• Drive a broad talent acquisition strategy through social media, head-hunting, direct sourcing and employee referrals.
• Be a valued and collaborative member of the team, contributing ideas, feedback and improvements.
• Apply and manage screening techniques for the purpose of shortlisting or attracting candidates for executive positions. 
• Upholding an excellent candidate experience through effective response handling and timeous candidate feedback
• Advice the client as subject matter expert on recruiting markets, competitive trends, compensation, and other relevant areas, and share your knowledge with the business leaders and People Portfolio teams.
• Design, maintain and manage talent acquisition process for the AGSA
• Manage all vacancies across the 9 provinces through the talent acquisition team
• Maintain the recruitment system and develop and enhance to fulfil its requirements for the AGSA

Recruitment policies and procedures:

• Regularly review and update the recruitment policy, procedures and guidelines and advice leadership where needed.
• Drive and implement the policies relevant to recruitment thereby ensuring good governance. 
• Initiate the development of customised, BU or role specific recruitment strategies aligned with BU requirements. 

Reporting and analytics 

• Manage the talent acquisition systems and provide people analytics.
• Manage the reporting and tracking of roles and recruitment activities.
• Ensure that data storage is secured and updated.
• Analyse system data, report and provide insights to ensure data-driven talent acquisition planning and decision making.

Administration: 

• Oversee the utilisation of the e-recruitment system and ensure effective running of the e-recruitment system. 
• Ensure proper documentation of each recruitment process as per the secure filing system in place. 
• Quality review recruitment files in respective portfolios
• Prepare, sign off and finalise salary offer in respective portfolios.
• Prepare and finalise the contract.

Stakeholder Management

•  Provide talent acquisition subject matter expertise and advisory to business and key stakeholders.
• Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders. 
• Communicate the recruitment strategy and objectives to both internal and external stakeholders to ensure understanding of these by all relevant stakeholders.
• Manage outsourced processes with recruitment agencies.
• Ensure stakeholder satisfaction and successes through surveys including candidates. 
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders in the people portfolio.

People Management 

• Manage own and team performance to drive productivity.
• Support staff in initiatives to attract and retain talent.
• Motivate, coach and mentor the team to ensure maximum productivity and development of staff to their full potential.
• Cascade People Portfolio initiatives to staff. 
• Provide support to the Senior Manager with regard to centre management and other business unit tasks.

Financial Management & Operational Management 

• Manage recruitment agency spend, where outsource services were required. 
• Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures.
• Ensure compliance to supply chain processes.
• Contribute to the risk assessment activities in the centre and BU.
• Manage the Preferred Suppliers List for recruitment through the SCM agreements. Compile, manage and execute the preferred supplier process for recruitment agencies in line with the approved internal SCM processes.
• Monitoring the quality of services provided on an ongoing basis to ensure a high quality of delivery is maintained.
• Effectively manage agency and Third Party spend across the organisation to ensure that agencies are only briefed on critical, scarce skills requirements.

Other Responsibilities

• Perform other projects within the People Portfolio as and when required by the People Portfolio

Minimum requirements

Formal Education 

• This position requires a relevant Bachelors’ degree in HR management or behaviour sciences or similar field.

Experience

• The incumbent is required to have 5-8 year’s talent sourcing experience in an agency and /or corporate financial services, preferably in the accounting and auditing profession.
• Extensive experience in competitor analysis, talent mapping and head hunting
• Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System or equivalent
• Team Management experience advantageous