Tatu City

Special Economic Zone for industrial development

Talent Acquisition Associate

Generalist RecruitingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeTatu City, KenyaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related courses.
Over 5–6 years of experience in talent acquisition.
Experience using applicant tracking systems.
Ability to influence senior leaders through communication, strategic alignment, and subject-matter knowledge of market data and standard methodologies.
Experience coaching staff and line managers on recruitment and selection principles, practices, and interviewing skills.
Experience optimizing processes and ways of working to create a positive employee experience.
An agile, innovative, pragmatic, commercial, and customer-focused approach.
Applicable knowledge of and exposure to relevant employment legislation, including data protection and labour laws.

Responsibilities

Recruit key required skills into the organization within agreed service-level agreements aligned with approved workforce plans.
Advise and influence the business using knowledge, insights, and expertise about external markets.
Conduct intake meetings with hiring managers to confirm desired candidate profiles and develop sourcing strategies for open positions.
Maintain a robust candidate pipeline and long-term candidate relationships, and promote roles and the organization's mission and brand to candidates.
Lead and manage talent acquisition projects, including employer branding activities such as career fairs, talent forums, and events to increase employer-brand visibility and candidate reach.
Leverage and embed the employer brand in talent acquisition touchpoints, including candidate and vendor interactions.
Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion plans and work with leaders and colleagues to implement them.
Improve candidate and hiring-manager experiences before, during, and after interviews.
Review the internal talent pool against vacancies and place ready-now talent before beginning external recruitment.
Own the recruitment system end to end, ensuring data quality and compliance.
Manage relationships with external providers, including recruiting firms, institutions of higher learning, and background-check businesses.
Produce reports and statistical data, including weekly reporting on recruitment initiatives, talent identified and placed, and challenges, as well as monthly reports against the workforce plan and other key performance indicators.
Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Talent Acquisition Associate

Tatu City · Tatu City, Kenya · — · Posted 2026-07-06

Workplace: on_site

Department: Administration Department

Description

The Talent Acquisition Associate will partner with stakeholders across the business and provide end-to-end talent acquisition of high-calibre talent to meet business needs.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Successfully recruit all key required skills into the organization within the agreed SLA aligned to approved workforce plans.
Act as a talent advisor and influence and guide the business with knowledge, insights and expertise of external markets.
Conduct intake meetings with hiring managers to confirm the desired profile and develop a sourcing strategy for the open position.
Stay connected to a robust pipeline of candidates, maintain long-term candidate relationships, and energetically sell the roles and the organization's mission and brand.
Lead and manage talent acquisition-related projects, such as employer branding (including career fairs, talent forums, and other events aimed at increasing employer brand visibility and expanding talent reach).
Ensure the employer brand is fully leveraged and embedded in talent acquisition touchpoints (including candidate and vendor interactions).
Promote our diversity, equity, and inclusion plans and work with all leaders and colleagues to actualise them.
Implement efforts to drive exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences before, during and after the interview process.
Proactively review, against all vacancies, our internal talent pool to place ready-now talent into vacant roles before going out for external recruitment.
End-to-end responsibility for the recruitment system, ensuring data quality and compliance.
Manage relationships with external providers, including recruiting firms, institutions of higher learning, and background check businesses, among others.
Produce reports and statistical data as required to include weekly reporting on recruitment initiatives, talent identified and placed, and challenges faced, monthly reports against workforce plan and other key performance indicators.
Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration and related courses
Over 5-6 years of experience in Talent Acquisition
Experience using applicant tracking systems (ATS).
Ability to influence senior leaders through exceptional communication, strategic alignment and subject matter authority knowledge on market data and standard methodologies.
Experience in coaching staff and line managers on best recruitment and selection principles/practices and interviewing skills.
Experience in optimizing processes and ways of working to create a positive employee experience.
Agile, innovative, pragmatic, commercial, and customer-focused approach.
Applicable knowledge of and exposure to relevant employment legislation such as Data Protection, labour laws etc.

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About the Company

Tatu City

Special Economic Zone for industrial development

Tatu City develops Kenya’s first operational Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and a 5,000-acre mixed-use city created by Rendeavour. It provides infrastructure-ready plots and fully developed spaces across industrial, residential, office, and educational uses within an SEZ designed to ease permits and services for businesses, backed by international investors. It differentiates itself by offering a government-recognized SEZ plus a complete ecosystem—homes, offices, schools, and recreation—within one regulated, long-term project. Its goal is to accelerate Kenya’s economic growth by attracting investment and enabling companies to set up, hire people, and expand, aligned with Vision 2030.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Nakuru, Kenya
Founded: 2008

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