Talent Acquisition Specialist
2026-08-18T05:53:32+00:00
CloudFactory
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CONTRACTOR
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Manufacturing
Human Resources, Recruitment
2026-08-25T17:00:00+00:00
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Background
CloudFactory is changing the way the world works by providing an on-demand, digital workforce for scaling critical business processes in the cloud. We’re also on a mission to create meaningful work for as many people as possible.
Role Summary
As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will own full-cycle recruitment for assigned roles, from sourcing and screening through to offer, while building strong, diverse talent pipelines and delivering a consistently positive candidate experience. You will apply established sourcing, assessment, and negotiation techniques independently, partner closely with hiring managers on role requirements and market insights, and escalate complex, high-risk, or strategic hiring needs to senior members of the Talent Acquisition team. This is an opportunity to grow your recruitment expertise while contributing to a fast-scaling, mission-driven Global Talent function.
Please note: This is a full-time, fixed-term employee position with an expected duration of 9 months.
Responsibilities:
Sourcing And Pipeline Development
- Build and maintain strong, diverse candidate pipelines using multiple sourcing channels, including job boards, referrals, and professional networks.
- Proactively identify and engage passive candidates, nurturing relationships to keep them warm and interested in CloudFactory.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date candidate records in the ATS.
Screening And Assessment
- Independently screen and assess candidates against role requirements, conducting structured interviews and evaluations.
- Document screening outcomes clearly and provide well-reasoned recommendations to hiring managers.
- Apply consistent, fair assessment methods across every stage of the hiring process.
Hiring Manager And Stakeholder Support
- Manage relationships with hiring managers and key stakeholders throughout the recruitment lifecycle, proactively identifying and addressing their needs.
- Advise hiring managers on realistic timelines, market conditions, and role requirements.
- Escalate complex or sensitive recruitment issues to senior Talent Acquisition team members when needed.
Candidate Experience
- Own the candidate experience from first contact through offer, ensuring clear and timely communication at every stage.
- Coordinate interviews and manage candidate logistics.
- Respond to candidate questions and concerns promptly and professionally.
Talent Marketing And Employer Branding
- Create and share content that showcases CloudFactory's employer brand across social and professional channels.
- Support talent marketing campaigns and recruitment events to attract candidates.
Market Research And Insights
- Conduct market research on talent availability, compensation benchmarks, and hiring trends relevant to open roles.
- Use market insights to inform sourcing strategy and set realistic expectations with hiring managers.
ATS And Data Management
- Manage requisitions, candidate pipelines, and reporting in the ATS with a high level of proficiency.
- Maintain accurate, complete, and compliant recruitment data.
- Help identify and correct data quality issues.
Reporting And Metrics
- Generate and analyze recruitment metrics, such as time-to-fill, pipeline health, and cost-per-hire, to track progress against hiring goals.
- Present findings clearly to hiring managers and the Global Talent team.
Offer Management And Negotiation
- Extend and negotiate job offers, handling candidate questions and objections professionally.
- Ensure offers align with internal equity and market benchmarks, escalating complex negotiations as needed.
Compliance And Process Improvement
- Apply CloudFactory's recruitment policies and procedures consistently, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment processes and tools.
Requirements
Must-have skills
- Full-cycle recruitment experience: proven ability to independently manage sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer stages for assigned roles.
- Sourcing skills: skilled in using multiple sourcing channels and platforms to build strong, diverse candidate pipelines, including proactive outreach to passive candidates.
- ATS proficiency: strong working knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems, able to manage requisitions, candidate pipelines, and reporting independently.
- Stakeholder management: able to build and manage relationships with hiring managers, providing guidance on process, market conditions, and role requirements.
- Communication skills: excellent written and verbal communication, comfortable engaging candidates, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners.
- Analytical skills: able to interpret recruitment data and metrics, such as time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, and cost-per-hire, to identify trends and improve outcomes.
- Negotiation skills: able to manage job offer discussions and resolve candidate objections independently, escalating complex negotiations when needed.
- Multitasking and prioritization: able to manage multiple open requisitions simultaneously, prioritizing based on urgency and business impact.
- Problem-solving: able to identify bottlenecks in the recruitment process and propose practical solutions, escalating complex issues appropriately.
Academic and Professional Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.
- 3–5 years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment, including full-cycle ownership of mid-level hiring.
Nice-to-have skills
- Experience recruiting within a global or matrix organization.
- Familiarity with employer branding and talent marketing activities.
- Exposure to market research or benchmarking for compensation and talent supply.
- AI literacy: familiarity with LLMs, conversational AI, prompt engineering, and agentic AI concepts to help modernize recruitment workflows.
- Build and maintain strong, diverse candidate pipelines using multiple sourcing channels, including job boards, referrals, and professional networks.
- Proactively identify and engage passive candidates, nurturing relationships to keep them warm and interested in CloudFactory.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date candidate records in the ATS.
- Independently screen and assess candidates against role requirements, conducting structured interviews and evaluations.
- Document screening outcomes clearly and provide well-reasoned recommendations to hiring managers.
- Apply consistent, fair assessment methods across every stage of the hiring process.
- Manage relationships with hiring managers and key stakeholders throughout the recruitment lifecycle, proactively identifying and addressing their needs.
- Advise hiring managers on realistic timelines, market conditions, and role requirements.
- Escalate complex or sensitive recruitment issues to senior Talent Acquisition team members when needed.
- Own the candidate experience from first contact through offer, ensuring clear and timely communication at every stage.
- Coordinate interviews and manage candidate logistics.
- Respond to candidate questions and concerns promptly and professionally.
- Create and share content that showcases CloudFactory's employer brand across social and professional channels.
- Support talent marketing campaigns and recruitment events to attract candidates.
- Conduct market research on talent availability, compensation benchmarks, and hiring trends relevant to open roles.
- Use market insights to inform sourcing strategy and set realistic expectations with hiring managers.
- Manage requisitions, candidate pipelines, and reporting in the ATS with a high level of proficiency.
- Maintain accurate, complete, and compliant recruitment data.
- Help identify and correct data quality issues.
- Generate and analyze recruitment metrics, such as time-to-fill, pipeline health, and cost-per-hire, to track progress against hiring goals.
- Present findings clearly to hiring managers and the Global Talent team.
- Extend and negotiate job offers, handling candidate questions and objections professionally.
- Ensure offers align with internal equity and market benchmarks, escalating complex negotiations as needed.
- Apply CloudFactory's recruitment policies and procedures consistently, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment processes and tools.
- Full-cycle recruitment experience
- Sourcing skills
- ATS proficiency
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
- Analytical skills
- Negotiation skills
- Multitasking and prioritization
- Problem-solving
- Experience recruiting within a global or matrix organization
- Familiarity with employer branding and talent marketing activities
- Exposure to market research or benchmarking for compensation and talent supply
- AI literacy: familiarity with LLMs, conversational AI, prompt engineering, and agentic AI concepts
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.
- 3–5 years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment, including full-cycle ownership of mid-level hiring.
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Vacancy title:
Talent Acquisition Specialist
[Type: CONTRACTOR, Industry: Manufacturing, Category: Human Resources, Recruitment]
Jobs at:
CloudFactory
Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, August 25 2026
Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 18 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Background
CloudFactory is changing the way the world works by providing an on-demand, digital workforce for scaling critical business processes in the cloud. We’re also on a mission to create meaningful work for as many people as possible.
Role Summary
As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will own full-cycle recruitment for assigned roles, from sourcing and screening through to offer, while building strong, diverse talent pipelines and delivering a consistently positive candidate experience. You will apply established sourcing, assessment, and negotiation techniques independently, partner closely with hiring managers on role requirements and market insights, and escalate complex, high-risk, or strategic hiring needs to senior members of the Talent Acquisition team. This is an opportunity to grow your recruitment expertise while contributing to a fast-scaling, mission-driven Global Talent function.
Please note: This is a full-time, fixed-term employee position with an expected duration of 9 months.
Responsibilities:
Sourcing And Pipeline Development
- Build and maintain strong, diverse candidate pipelines using multiple sourcing channels, including job boards, referrals, and professional networks.
- Proactively identify and engage passive candidates, nurturing relationships to keep them warm and interested in CloudFactory.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date candidate records in the ATS.
Screening And Assessment
- Independently screen and assess candidates against role requirements, conducting structured interviews and evaluations.
- Document screening outcomes clearly and provide well-reasoned recommendations to hiring managers.
- Apply consistent, fair assessment methods across every stage of the hiring process.
Hiring Manager And Stakeholder Support
- Manage relationships with hiring managers and key stakeholders throughout the recruitment lifecycle, proactively identifying and addressing their needs.
- Advise hiring managers on realistic timelines, market conditions, and role requirements.
- Escalate complex or sensitive recruitment issues to senior Talent Acquisition team members when needed.
Candidate Experience
- Own the candidate experience from first contact through offer, ensuring clear and timely communication at every stage.
- Coordinate interviews and manage candidate logistics.
- Respond to candidate questions and concerns promptly and professionally.
Talent Marketing And Employer Branding
- Create and share content that showcases CloudFactory's employer brand across social and professional channels.
- Support talent marketing campaigns and recruitment events to attract candidates.
Market Research And Insights
- Conduct market research on talent availability, compensation benchmarks, and hiring trends relevant to open roles.
- Use market insights to inform sourcing strategy and set realistic expectations with hiring managers.
ATS And Data Management
- Manage requisitions, candidate pipelines, and reporting in the ATS with a high level of proficiency.
- Maintain accurate, complete, and compliant recruitment data.
- Help identify and correct data quality issues.
Reporting And Metrics
- Generate and analyze recruitment metrics, such as time-to-fill, pipeline health, and cost-per-hire, to track progress against hiring goals.
- Present findings clearly to hiring managers and the Global Talent team.
Offer Management And Negotiation
- Extend and negotiate job offers, handling candidate questions and objections professionally.
- Ensure offers align with internal equity and market benchmarks, escalating complex negotiations as needed.
Compliance And Process Improvement
- Apply CloudFactory's recruitment policies and procedures consistently, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment processes and tools.
Requirements
Must-have skills
- Full-cycle recruitment experience: proven ability to independently manage sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer stages for assigned roles.
- Sourcing skills: skilled in using multiple sourcing channels and platforms to build strong, diverse candidate pipelines, including proactive outreach to passive candidates.
- ATS proficiency: strong working knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems, able to manage requisitions, candidate pipelines, and reporting independently.
- Stakeholder management: able to build and manage relationships with hiring managers, providing guidance on process, market conditions, and role requirements.
- Communication skills: excellent written and verbal communication, comfortable engaging candidates, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners.
- Analytical skills: able to interpret recruitment data and metrics, such as time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, and cost-per-hire, to identify trends and improve outcomes.
- Negotiation skills: able to manage job offer discussions and resolve candidate objections independently, escalating complex negotiations when needed.
- Multitasking and prioritization: able to manage multiple open requisitions simultaneously, prioritizing based on urgency and business impact.
- Problem-solving: able to identify bottlenecks in the recruitment process and propose practical solutions, escalating complex issues appropriately.
Academic and Professional Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.
- 3–5 years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment, including full-cycle ownership of mid-level hiring.
Nice-to-have skills
- Experience recruiting within a global or matrix organization.
- Familiarity with employer branding and talent marketing activities.
- Exposure to market research or benchmarking for compensation and talent supply.
- AI literacy: familiarity with LLMs, conversational AI, prompt engineering, and agentic AI concepts to help modernize recruitment workflows.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 12
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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