Talent Development Coordinator

Jaza Energy is seeking a Talent Development Coordinator in Osun, Nigeria, responsible for recruiting, training, and onboarding Jaza Stars Sales agents for new sites. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree, experience in rural talent acquisition, and strong interpersonal skills. The role involves managing the recruitment cycle, conducting interviews, and ensuring effective training materials. Familiarity with local languages is a plus. This is a full-time position based on-site.
Qualifications
• A bachelor’s degree in any related field.
• Previous experience in roles where rural talent acquisition was done.
• Ability to tap into local networks, leveraging community connections, and local job boards to find candidates.
• Ability to position the company as an attractive local employer.
• Ability to develop tailored recruitment strategies to attract candidates.
• Experience in conducting in-person interviews.
• Ability to assess candidates for both technical skills and cultural fit within the community-oriented nature of rural work environments.
• Ability to manage the full recruitment cycle in a rural environment where resources may be more limited.
• Effective planning and prioritization to ensure timely and efficient hiring processes, even with fewer candidates.
• Strong problem-solving skills to handle challenges like long hiring timelines, and/or limited local candidate pools.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills to establish trust within a close-knit community.
• Familiarity with local languages or dialects can be a huge asset, especially in remote/rural areas.
• Ability to work independently, interact with people of different backgrounds, cultures, languages and to travel frequently to remote locations.

Job role
• The Talent Development Coordinator is responsible for acquiring competent Jaza Stars Sales agents for the new sites. The SDC owns the entire process of recruitment, training and onboarding of new Jaza Stars for new sites identified in the expansion pipeline and ensures that the Jaza Stars recruited are competent and have the appropriate training to manage the hubs and accomplish company set goals.

Accountability:
• Manage the recruitment process advertising, interviewing and hiring of great Jaza Stars whose goals and ambitions align with the goals of the company in the new sites it expands to.
• Own the process of training and evaluation of the selected Jaza Stars and ensure that the training materials are kept up to date. Ensuring that all onboarding procedures for recruited Jaza Stars are followed and all necessary documentations are filed accordingly.

Responsibilities:
• Ensuring that open Jaza Star positions for new sites in Expansion are advertised extensively.
• Monitoring the number of interested candidates during Jaza Stars recruitment and ensuring that it meets the set criteria for interviews and training to be conducted
• Making sure that all necessary arrangements for interviewing and training process are made for each site in the expansion process
• Conducting interviews, classroom training and on-site training for possible Jaza Star recruits
• Identifying possible areas of concentration for training for the Jaza Star recruits and recommend inputs to the training materials
• Ensuring that classroom and on-site training materials are kept up to date by flagging any additions or changes to be made by the QA Expansion Operations.
• Ensuring that all onboarding action items for new recruits are followed and all necessary documentation is filled appropriately. This includes: