Overview
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist Jobs in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at OutsideCapital
Title: Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Company: OutsideCapital
Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Are you an experienced Talent Acquisition professional looking to make a visible, long-term impact on a scaling international operation?
Our client is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to lead proactive talent sourcing and end-to-end recruitment for their high-growth Cape Town Shared Services hub. In this role, you will act as a trusted talent advisor to business leaders, driving direct sourcing strategies across a wide variety of specialist functions, including finance, IT, HR, legal, compliance, and change management.
This is an exciting opportunity to help build high-performing teams from the ground up within a modern, hybrid work environment, offering excellent autonomy, cross-border stakeholder exposure, and substantial career development.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Direct Sourcing: Proactively map target markets and headhunt top-tier talent using LinkedIn Recruiter, talent communities, and referral networks across multi-disciplinary shared services and specialist corporate domains.
- End-to-End Recruitment Lifecycle: Manage the full recruitment process from briefing and market mapping through structured competency assessments, offer negotiations, and pre-onboarding alignment.
- Senior Stakeholder Partnership: Partner closely with hiring managers, providing guidance on role profiles, market intelligence, salary benchmarks, and realistic recruitment timelines.
- Talent Pipeline Creation: Build and nurture sustainable, high-calibre candidate communities across core job families (Finance, IT, Risk & Compliance, Project Management, and Administration).
- Candidate Experience: Deliver an engaging, professional, and transparent candidate journey that represents the brand with excellence in the South African talent market.
- Reporting & Governance: Maintain accurate candidate data, build recruitment dashboards, track key metrics (time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, direct sourcing ratios), and ensure full compliance with pre-employment checks.
Requirements
Must-Haves (Essential)
- 8–10+ years of dedicated recruitment/talent acquisition experience, with a proven track record in full lifecycle delivery and direct candidate sourcing.
- Advanced Direct Sourcing Skills: Deep expertise using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search techniques, and targeted market mapping to engage passive candidates.
- Multi-Functional Exposure: Demonstrated experience recruiting across multiple corporate job families (e.g., Finance, HR, IT, Compliance, Operations).
- Senior Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication, influencing, and consulting skills with the confidence to advise senior leadership.
- Communication: Outstanding written and verbal English communication skills.
- Work Style: Self-motivated, structured, and comfortable delivering results within a hybrid work model.
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