About Company:
Kora is a payment infrastructure for Africa. We offer plug-and-play payment solutions for businesses to launch a tailored payment experience for their customers. At the front and center of what we do every day, we are creating a future void of digital financial barriers across Africa. We are committed to delivering secure, reliable, and easy-to-use digital financial solutions to customers with a guarantee that they are improving their lives.
Job Description:
- The Talent Acquisition Analyst plays a critical role in helping Kora attract, assess, and hire exceptional talent to support our growth.
- This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about recruitment operations, candidate experience, and data-driven hiring.
- You will support the full recruitment lifecycle while partnering closely with hiring managers and stakeholders to deliver efficient, structured, and high-quality hiring outcomes.
- You will also help improve recruitment processes, track hiring metrics, and contribute to building strong talent pipelines.
- This role is best suited for someone who is detail-oriented, proactive, and excited about building scalable hiring practices in a fast-growing environment.
Key Responsibilities
What you will be expected to do at Kora:
Recruitment Execution:
- Support end-to-end recruitment processes across multiple teams and functions
- Source candidates through various channels, including LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and talent communities
- Screen applications and conduct initial candidate assessments
- Coordinate interviews and ensure a smooth candidate experience throughout the hiring process
- Maintain consistent communication with candidates and hiring managers
Stakeholder Support:
- Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements and hiring priorities
- Support the creation and refinement of job descriptions
- Provide regular updates on hiring progress and pipeline health
- Assist in scheduling and coordinating interview panels
Recruitment Operations & Analytics:
- Track hiring metrics, including pipeline conversion, time-to-hire, and offer acceptance rates
- Maintain accurate records in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
- Generate hiring reports and provide insights to improve recruitment effectiveness
- Identify bottlenecks and recommend process improvements
Talent Pipeline & Employer Branding:
- Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring and critical roles
- Support employer branding initiatives and recruitment campaigns
- Assist with sourcing strategies to attract diverse talent
- Participate in talent mapping and proactive sourcing initiatives
Process Improvement:
- Contribute to improving recruitment processes and workflows
- Support recruitment projects and hiring initiatives
- Help maintain recruitment documentation and best practices
Requirements:
- 1–3 years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment at a tech start-up and/or high-scaling startup and/or fast-paced and hyper-growth environment is preferred.
- Strong organisational and coordination skills.
- Ability to manage multiple roles and priorities simultaneously.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience sourcing candidates using multiple platforms.
- Data-driven mindset with comfort working with hiring metrics.
- Close attention to detail and strong follow-through.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Passionate about delivering an exceptional candidate experience at all stages of the recruitment process.
- Strong track record in results and moving at a pace to meet the company's scaling needs.
- Excited and intentional about diverse and inclusive hiring practices.
- Proven track record of attracting passive candidates and building a diverse pipeline of talent.
- Ability to operate with a sense of urgency while not compromising on quality.
- Impeccable verbal and written communication skills - needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as good presentation skills.
- Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients and an ability to influence stakeholders.
- You are exceptionally driven and autonomous.
- Empathy, a collaborative spirit, a sense of humour and a positive attitude.
- You bring positive energy, are comfortable with change and can manage your own workload effectively.
- Finally, you are an out-of-the-box thinker and think of new ways to disrupt the status quo.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Sponsored and tailored training
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time-off
- Flexible work style
- Low-interest loans
- Group Life Insurance
- Access to up to four therapy sessions monthly
- Day off on your birthday
- Employee interest groups that provide supportive communities within Kora
- Great company culture and the opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building something great!
Salary
Very attractiveApplication Closing Date: Not specified
Application Instructions:
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Job Information
Deadline
Not specified
Job Type
Full-time
Industry
Human Resources
Work Level
Experienced
State
Lagos
Country
Nigeria