Available Roles at BETSoftware

You Bring:

• An HR or related qualification is preferred.
• 2–3 years recruitment experience.
• Results driven: Consistently delivers required business results; sets and achieves goals, consistently complies with quality standards and meets deadlines; maintains focus on organisational goals.
• Accountability: Follows through and delivers results in spite of obstacles. Admits to errors and takes corrective action to avoid repetition. Approaches own work with dedication and high sense of responsibility.
• Reporting: Collate and report on information. Account for and verify reporting figures/statistics. Review/analyse reporting statistics and figures in order to identify trends and make relevant recommendations.
• Relationship management: Developing and maintaining professional business associations at all levels. Establish relationships both inside and outside the organisation. Effectively apply networking and influencing skills.
• Interview skills: Understands best practice interview techniques to ensure that high calibre candidates are selected.
• Proven experience in headhunting/sourcing and networking initiatives.
• Driver’s license (advantageous).
• Previous experience recruiting within a technology sector (advantageous).

What You’ll Do:

• Follow the recruitment process as outlined, unless otherwise advised.
• Obtain pre-recruitment authorisation form signed off by management in order to proceed with recruitment process.
• Draft internal and external advertisements for vacancies. Place adverts after sign off from the Line Manager.
• Conduct pre-screening interviews against job spec and eliminate unsuitable candidates early on in the recruitment process. Collate and present CVs to the line manager for consideration.
• Coordinate/facilitate interviews. Coordinating diary times and scheduling interviews with relevant Line Managers and/or Recruitment Manager.
• Ensure competency-based interview questions are posed as part of targeted selection process.
• Ensure that reference checks are completed for the final shortlisted candidate, as well as other formal checks (credit/fraud/criminal/qualification/driver’s license etc. where appropriate) and obtain a most recent payslip.
• Draft offer letter for candidate after package has been approved.
• Maintain all pertinent application and interview data. Ensure that interview notes, guides and reference checks are uploaded onto the HRIS.
• Ensure that all candidates who do not meet the requirements are advised by way of rejection letters, emails or notifications. Ensure each candidate has received feedback regarding the outcome of the interview/ ensure agencies receive feedback.
• Utilise the internet for sourcing of candidates.
• Maintain a pool of readily available candidates.
• Formally start building a database of candidates that can be referred to.
• Coordinate polygraph examinations when required. Send brief to candidate and invites in terms of sessions.
• Provide daily reports and monthly reports.
• Attend weekly recruitment meetings.
• Attend to ad hoc tasks/projects as and when the need arises

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You Bring:

• At least 3-5 years’ experience managing software development teams and leads.
• At least 6 years in a technical role within the IT software development industry.
• Prior experience ensuring timely project delivery.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance to development team.
• Ensure development standards and development SDLC is adhered to by the development team.
• Ability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced growing environment.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Reporting skills at Senior Management level.
• Prior stakeholder and team lead management

What You’ll Do:

Strategy, objectives and execution

• Create, agree and execute software development road maps and operational strategy for projects coming into the business in collaboration with respective team members through proper documentation, communication and execution.
• Build effective customer centric relationships through measurements of performance and usage and engagement and involvement with customers by creating clear visibility through strategies and roadmaps.
• Sets and achieves efficient delivery objectives of their teams by ensuring individual and team strategy with clear and measurable objectives that align with organisational goals.
• Hold team accountable through road maps and individual performance contracts through consistent communication of delivery milestones.
• Accountable for articulating, monitoring, reporting and achieving realisation.
• Development of long-term strategic thinking incorporating demand forecasting for product or future projects.
• Utilisation of data metrics in order to make data driven decisions.

Knowledge management

• Identifies and responds to situation/organisational/market requirements by creating a culture of innovation and opportunity identification by team.
• Facilitates change management due to changing situational requirements e.g., restructure changes or adoption of new technologies.
• Supports and aligns standards across BET by allocating agreed commitments to strategy/roadmap communication and implementation.
• Maintains product(s) knowledge as well as general product knowledge by being able to represent your product strategy in detail.
• Ensure the established procedures and processes are accurately documented, communicated, implemented, and agreed with product and/or project teams.
• Acts as escalation point for issues and ensures effective communication and resolution activities are in place.

Stakeholder management

• Effectively liaise and communicate with both internal and external key stakeholders at senior level to manage day to day issues, escalations, and expectations.
• Ensure all operational communication with customers/partners are documented and effectively circulated to stakeholders making use of collaborative tools.
• Engage with executive members or equivalent at customers/partners to ensure collaboration at all levels.
• Engage with the wider business and if needed hold strategic knowledge sharing sessions.
• Maintain and facilitate strategic stakeholder and communication analysis.