Country: Thailand
Closing date: 20 Mar 2016
About VSO
VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.
Role overview
This is a great opportunity to develop your skills and career with one of the best known international NGO’s. Our employees and our volunteers are our most important asset. As we implement our People First strategy we need to ensure that we have the right people, with the right skills, in the right place to fight against poverty and make long last changes to the lives of people. We are looking for you to make the difference.
Based in Thailand, working as part of the global resourcing team and Papua New Guinea country office, you will be responsible for recruitment of international volunteers, national volunteers, employees and consultants for VSO Papua New Guinea country office. You will play a key role in supporting programmes and hiring managers in country ensuring timely and effective recruitment, selection and on boarding processes in line with VSO global policy and standards.
As important as building capacity of the country office on good practices on recruitment and strengthening the processes with high quality service delivery support, we will call on you to ensure data integrity in VSO recruitment system and to provide accurate demand and reporting to the global and country office team.
In short, you will be our specialist and credible reference point of recruitment and selection in country.
Skills, qualifications and experience required
You will demonstrate a knowledge, skills and experience of managing an end to end recruitment process using recruitment systems with ability to produce progress reports on a regular basis.
To be successful in this role, you will work well with colleagues located across regions, able to build strong working relationships, gaining trust and mutual respect; being flexible, responding to perspectives and being assertive when appropriate with good verbal and written communication skills in English. Your experience of cross-cultural working and an understanding of issues of diversity will be required.
You will drive for a high quality service delivery with professional confidence, good organisation skills and ability to change and adapt to the context.
Your understanding and experience of working in a virtual team is desirable. Experience gained within a volunteering/Non Governmental Organisation context will be a plus.
You will be willing to occasionally travel to support the team in Papua New Guinea on their recruitment.
It's important that you are committed to VSO's work and values.
This is a national hire post under national terms and conditions. Right to work in Thailand is required. We will not be able to obtain visa and work permit to non-Thai nationals.
VSO is committed to a policy of equal opportunities, values inclusion and seeks to have a diverse workforce.
Applications are welcome from people of all origins, ethnicities, religions, gender, age and disability. Every application will be reviewed against the above requirement.
Due to a high volume of applications, only short listed candidates will be contacted.
How to apply:
How to apply
If you’re interested in applying for this role, please download the job description to read more details about the position and the skills and experience we’re looking for. To submit your application, click on ‘Apply now’ and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.
http://vso.force.com/jobopportunities/Job_DetailsPage?jid=a0mD000000Air2M
Application closing date
20 Mar 2016
Interview/Assessment date(s)
To be confirmed
Start date
ASAP