The Talent Acquisition Specialist helps ensure War Child attracts and appoints people in a timely, fair, and inclusive way that supports organisational priorities and values. The role delivers end-to-end recruitment across assigned vacancies, strengthens candidate experience and hiring quality, and works with managers and People and Culture colleagues to improve sourcing, selection, and talent pipeline approaches.
What you will do:
This role sits within the People and Culture function and supports recruitment and hiring across assigned functions, countries, or portfolios. The role works closely with hiring managers, HR Business Partners, HR Services colleagues, candidates, and external suppliers where relevant, helping ensure recruitment processes are well managed, inclusive, and aligned with War Child’s values, safeguarding standards, and organisational needs. - Lead and manage end-to-end recruitment for assigned portfolios, ensuring high-quality, timely, and consistent hiring aligned with organisational priorities and standards.
- Act as a specialist to hiring managers and HR Business Partners, shaping recruitment strategies, advising on role design and market approaches, and supporting robust and consistent selection decisions.
- Coordinate candidate assessment and selection processes, ensuring structured, professional, and inclusive candidate handling throughout.
- Draft and publish recruitment materials that are clear, inclusive, and aligned with War Child’s employer brand and role requirements.
- Build and maintain talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs, particularly for recurring, hard-to-fill, or strategic roles.
- Track recruitment activity, provide updates and insight to stakeholders, and use recruitment data to improve process quality, timeliness, and decision-making.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of War Child’s talent acquisition strategy, translating organisational workforce needs into practical hiring approaches.
- Drive the development, implementation, and consistent application of recruitment standard operating procedures (SOPs), tools, and minimum standards across functions and geographies.
- Design and implement targeted sourcing and talent pipeline strategies to attract diverse and high-quality candidates, particularly for priority, hard-to-fill, or strategic roles.
- Strengthen employer branding and talent attraction approaches, supporting War Child’s positioning in relevant talent markets and improving candidate engagement and experience.
- Analyse recruitment data, trends, and market insights to inform decision-making, identify risks and opportunities, and support workforce planning and organisational prioritisation.
- Lead continuous improvement of recruitment systems, processes, and ways of working, ensuring alignment with inclusive hiring practices, safeguarding standards, and organisational policies.
- The role may support recruitment for specialist, multi-country, or hard-to-fill positions and needs to work confidently with different stakeholders, systems, and hiring timelines while maintaining inclusive and compliant processes.
- May provide talent acquisition support to other War Child offices through the Alliance Shared Services model, contributing to recruitment delivery across multiple countries or entities as required.
- Supports consistent application of recruitment standards, tools, and processes across supported offices, ensuring alignment with organisational policies and minimum standards.
- Works with HR Business Partners, hiring managers, and local teams in different locations to deliver recruitment processes in a coordinated, efficient, and culturally appropriate way.
- Provides guidance and practical support to offices with limited internal recruitment capacity, helping strengthen local hiring practices and capability.
- Adapts recruitment approaches to different labour markets, regulatory environments, and operational contexts while maintaining overall consistency and quality.
- Contributes to knowledge sharing and alignment across offices, supporting continuous improvement of recruitment practices within the shared services model.