Global Recruiting Partner

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The People team, with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, takes on complex challenges; we continually test new approaches and embrace change where it will facilitate the best outcome. You'll work alongside a diverse group of HR professionals who are passionate about creating an excellent employee experience, providing client-focused solutions, and implementing consistent and equitable people practices.

Our Talent Acquisition team is responsible for partnering with leaders and managers to find the best global talent available to help the organization meet its diverse and important strategies and missions. We develop and execute effective and consistent talent sourcing and selection strategies to hire candidates for various positions ranging from leadership to entry level around the globe.

The team comprises several US-based recruiters who primarily support recruitment across the United States. In addition, the team includes regionally based recruiters in India, Nigeria, and the UK who lead recruitment efforts across Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa), Europe, Middle East and East Asia (Germany, Saudi Arabia, and the UK), as well as India and China, and a few ad hoc locations.

The team supports recruitment across multiple time zones; therefore, flexibility is required to accommodate global teams and business needs. The team operates collaboratively, with recruiters working closely to support one another and ensure seamless delivery across regions. To maintain this flexibility, US-based recruiters may occasionally support regional recruitment efforts, while regionally based recruiters may also be called upon to support recruitment for US-based roles as business priorities evolve.

Your Role

We are seeking a driven, agile, and collaborative Global Recruiting Partner to lead end-to-end regional recruitment across a broad portfolio of programmatic and operational roles, from individual contributor positions through to senior leadership, supporting multiple divisions across the foundation.

In this role, you will champion the foundation's employee value proposition to attract, engage, and hire a diverse pipeline of exceptional talent from around the world in support of our mission. You will be responsible for developing and executing innovative sourcing and research strategies to identify and engage highly specialized technical and operational talent for our global offices.

You will bring a consultative mindset and serve as a trusted talent advisor, partnering closely with hiring managers to understand their business needs, challenge assumptions, provide market insights, and guide informed hiring decisions. You will build strong relationships with stakeholders while delivering an exceptional recruitment experience for both hiring managers and candidates.

The successful candidate will be able to manage a high volume of recruitment activity while maintaining a consistently high-quality experience for both candidates and hiring managers. You will possess exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills, thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, and demonstrate the agility to balance competing priorities while delivering exceptional hiring outcomes.

The position will be based in Nairobi, and report to the Senior Global Recruiting Manager based in India.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for technical, operational, and executive-level roles, including talent sourcing, candidate identification and engagement, assessment, interviewing, selection, offer negotiation, and onboarding support.
• Develop and execute innovative talent acquisition strategies to identify, attract, and secure high-caliber talent across diverse functions and global markets.
• Build trusted, collaborative relationships with candidates, hiring managers, HR partners, and key stakeholders, delivering a high-quality recruitment experience throughout the hiring lifecycle.
• Partner with Hiring Managers and HR Business Partners to understand current and future talent needs, identify critical capability gaps, and develop proactive talent pipeline strategies.
• Serve as a consultative talent advisor, influencing hiring decisions by providing market intelligence, talent insights, competitive benchmarking, and strategic guidance aligned with business priorities.
• Partner closely with colleagues across the People team - including HR Business Partners, Associates, Compensation, Global Mobility, and other regional and US-based colleagues - to navigate and execute internal processes that support the recruitment lifecycle.
• Leverage recruiting technologies and market intelligence tools, including LinkedIn Recruiter, Workday, TalentNeuron, and other sourcing platforms, to map talent markets, identify prospects, and build diverse talent pipelines.
• Conduct targeted talent mapping and competitive research to identify organizations and individuals aligned with immediate hiring needs and long-term workforce planning.
• Continuously build and maintain expertise on global talent markets, labor trends, and competitive intelligence to inform recruitment strategies across the foundation's regional offices.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Talent Acquisition by sharing best practices, market insights, and process innovations with colleagues across the global recruiting team.

Your Experience

The ideal candidate is driven, intellectually curious, commercially astute, and passionate about identifying and engaging exceptional talent across global markets. You thrive in a fast-paced, global environment, consistently managing a diverse portfolio of concurrent recruitment searches across multiple functions, geographies, and levels. You excel at balancing competing priorities while maintaining a high standard of quality, responsiveness, and stakeholder partnership. You deliver an exceptional experience for both candidates and hiring managers, bringing credibility, professionalism, sound judgment, and a consultative approach to every interaction.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive talent acquisition experience in the private sector, consulting, or nonprofit organizations, with a proven track record of managing complex regional and global recruitment across a broad range of functions and seniority levels in a high-volume and fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in executive search, talent mapping, and proactive sourcing, with a strong track record of identifying, engaging, and attracting diverse technical, operational, and programmatic talent across global markets in the Africa continent and beyond.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent end-to-end recruitment searches while balancing competing priorities, meeting deadlines, achieving performance goals, and delivering an exceptional experience for candidates and hiring managers.
• Results-oriented with a strong bias for action and a demonstrated ability to build high-quality, diverse talent pipelines that meet evolving business needs.
• Experience designing, implementing, and continuously improving innovative talent acquisition programs, processes, and technologies, including the application of AI and other emerging recruitment tools.
• Strong consultative and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence hiring decisions, challenge assumptions, and build trusted partnerships across a complex, global, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and effectively apply internal policies, governance, and recruitment processes while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and the overall hiring experience.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using talent market intelligence, recruiting metrics, and workforce data to inform hiring strategies, forecast talent needs, and drive continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, learning agility, resilience, sound judgment, and resourcefulness, with the ability to adapt quickly to changing business priorities.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience developing competitive offers and leading complex compensation and offer negotiations.
• Proven ability to build credibility and influence with senior leaders, providing strategic talent advice and market insights to support informed hiring decisions.
• Exceptional judgment and discretion, with a demonstrated ability to manage confidential information, navigate ambiguity, and prioritize multiple complex assignments with professionalism, diplomacy, and attention to detail.
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently while contributing to a highly collaborative global team.

Other Attributes

• Comfortable in a wide range of cultural, geographic and operational situations, demonstrating culturally sensitive behaviour with a diverse range of people and a deep commitment to development issues and high standards of personal integrity.
• Ability to travel internationally.

 

*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

 

Application deadline: 1 October 2026

 

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Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you have a disability or medical condition and need an accommodation at any stage of the application or interview process—such as an ASL interpreter, alternative interview format, or physical accessibility support—we’re happy to help. Please contact [email protected] with the position number and a brief description of your accommodation needs. Requests will be handled confidentially.

Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.