Senior Talent/Recruitment Officer

Role Purpose

• Lead and support end-to-end talent acquisition and manpower requisition activities, ensuring WAEP attracts, assesses and engages suitably qualified talent for technical, operational and corporate roles in line with approved workforce plans, recruitment standards and business requirements

Core Competencies

• Strategic talent acquisition
• Manpower requisition management
• Competency-based interviewing screening
• Oil and gas technical recruitment
• Executive and specialist search
• Candidate assessment and due diligence Recruitment analytics and reporting .
• Offer management and engagement and stakeholder
• ATS/recruitment database management
• Confidentiality, judgment and documentation discipline

Key Performance Indicators KPIs

• Time-to-fill approved vacancies
• Quality and suitability of shortlisted candidates
• Recruitment process and documentation compliance Hiring-manager satisfaction
• Offer acceptance and candidate conversion rate Accuracy and timeliness of recruitment reporting Effectiveness of sourcing channels and talent pipelines
• Audit readiness of recruitment files

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate approved manpower requisitions from initiation through sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and onboarding.
• Partner with hiring managers to clarity role requirements, job descriptions, competencies, experience criteria and recruitment timelines.
• Develop sourcing strategies for specialist, technical leadership and hard-to-fill upstream oil and gas positions. Manage vacancy advertisements, candidate databases, recruitment channels and professional sourcing platforms. Screen applications and CVS against approved qualifications, experience and competency requirements and prepare defensible shortlists.
• Coordinate competency-based interviews, technical assessments, panel documentation, candidate communications and recruitment logistics.
• Conduct candidate due diligence, reference checks and verification of employment, qualifications and other required documentation.
• Support compensation benchmarking. candidate information gathering offer simulations and offer- management processes in line with approved remuneration frameworks.
• Maintain accurate recruitment trackers, requisition status reports, interview records, approvals and complete audit- ready recruitment files.
• Monitor recruitment metrics, identify bottlenecks and provide management reports on vacancies, time-to-fill, sourcing effectiveness and pending decisions.
• Support talent-pipeline development, succession-related sourcing and proactive identification of scarce upstream oil and gas skills.
• Ensure recruitment activities comply with Company policies, approved manpower plans, equal-opportunity principles and applicable employment requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Industrial Relations, Social Sciences or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10-15 years progressive recruitment/talent acquisition experience, with strong exposure to the oil and gas industry, preferably upstream E&P.
• Demonstrable experience recruiting technical specialist, managerial and senior leadership positions is required Relevant professional membership/certification such as CIPM, SHRM, CIPD or equivalent is strongly preferred.

Method of Application

Qualified candidates should send their CV to careers@waepco.com