Talent Acquisition Specialist at Industrial Development Corporation

Job Description

Talent Acquisition

• Lead and execute end-to-end recruitment for assigned portfolios, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing, assessments, and offer management.
• Collaborate with HCBPs and line managers to understand role requirements, capability needs, department culture, and strategic objectives
• Conduct market analysis for competitive advantage including proactive sourcing (LinkedIn etc), and utilizing these insights to influence resourcing strategies
• Apply a commercial mind-set to ensure that recruitment is delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective way while achieving hiring excellence.
• Drive a consistent, engaging, and professional candidate experience throughout all recruitment stages
• Partner with HCBPs to interpret workforce plans, talent gaps, and organisational priorities.
• Proactively identify, develop and maintain a comprehensive talent database to support future hiring needs.
• Implement long‑term sourcing strategies such as talent mapping, headhunting, and networking, particularly for critical and scarce skills required across the organization.
• Transformation: Ensure diversity is supported appropriately at all levels of hiring in partnership with ine/hiring managers
• Support and co-ordinate competency-based interviews with line managers.
• Facilitate interview feedback with all stakeholders.
• Prepare required motivations to facilitate the appointment process
• Market the IDC as an employer of choice through engagements, sourcing, market searches etc.
• Ensure the position profile for the position to be advertised is up to date, signed and in the correct format.

E-Recruitment System Management

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle through the e-recruitment platform, ensuring all candidates, requisitions, and workflows are accurately captured.
• Train hiring managers on system usage where required.
• Monitor system performance and ensure data integrity, compliance, and reporting accuracy

Reporting

• Compile and update the recruitment status report weekly/Monthly
• Draft and share recruitment dashboards for data insights, market trends and storytelling to guide hiring managers in the recruitment process.
• Maintain accurate and concise records regarding the recruitment and selection process

Bulk Recruitment-Youth Development Programmes

• Drive the end to end recruitment of the Youth Development Programmes (Graduate Interns/ Learnerships/CA- Trainees)-
• Support Youth Development initiatives to build and foster relationships for talent pipeline to business.

Operational efficiency & Governance

• Seek opportunities to enhance efficiencies in the recruitment process to enhance the filling of vacancies and improve the time to hire
• Ensure all recruitment processes comply with organisational policies and meet governance and/or regulatory requirements thereby safeguarding the IDC, current employees, prospective candidates and other stakeholders in the talent acquisition value chain
• Partner and collaborate to ensure delivery within the HC value chain i.e. Shared Services, Assessment teams etc.

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources/Industrial Psychology or related qualification
• A post-graduate qualification will be advantageous
• Registration with relevant regulatory bodies e.g. HPCSA will be advantageous
• 5-8 years Talent Acquisition Specialist experience some of which is gained in a corporate environment (ideally Financial Services/Development Finance Institution)
• Proven track record of having successfully filled various roles across all levels (Administrative to Senior Management/Senior specialist level)
• Considerable skill in competency based interviewing techniques
• Experience in use and application of relevant psychometric assessments will be advantageous
• Experience managing significant portfolios of complex recruitment
• Experience developing and delivering recruitment strategies
• Experience in research, market mapping and stakeholder management
• Experience in working with an in-house Response Handling Recruitment team to foster collaboration and ensure recruitment efficiencies.
• Knowledge and understanding of Human Capital practices and principles
• Knowledge and understanding of various applicable legislation requirements (e.g. BCEA) and data privacy (e.g. POPIA)
• Well versed and experienced at an expert level in MS Office applications
• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively with diverse teams
• Effective, versatile and action-oriented

Job Requirements

• Practical knowledge of interacting with ATS systems/technology
• Recruitment marketing and employer branding fluency
• Operational Effectiveness
• Measurement and and analytics capability
• Planning and organizing
• Project Management
• Stakeholder management
• Analytical and problem solving
• Results and solution orientated
• Planning and organizing
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Research and analysis
• Writing and reporting

Posting End Date

• 8 Mar 2026