Emerging Youth Talent Lead Region at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role purpose:

• Embedding the Vodacom Group EVP and resulting in youth attraction campaigns across all markets
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Vodacom group and externally to embed the youth hiring strategy and development.
• Drive multiple projects simultaneously to help re-define a programmatic approach to engaging early with target talent communities from grassroots to higher learning institutions and providing thought leadership to the Emerging Youth Teams
• Develop an effective and consistent communication strategy that is critical for attraction and retention of employees
• Champion the Top Employer Initiative - ensuring that Vodacom Group continues to be amongst the top employers in Africa

Your responsibilities will include:
Formulate the Employee Value Proposition:

• Communicate the Vodacom Group EVP by leveraging the right channels and build a favourable employer brand
• Streamline the communication strategy to ensure that all communications are relevant and engaging
• Mobilise the external communication channels to share the EVP to help build the Vodacom Employer brand and stay competitive
• Establish best practice in how we translate this to our Youth audience through employer brand activity

Create an integrated Africa Youth Strategy

• Develop a consistent approach to defining our Youth proposition and embedding this regionally.
• Guide the creation and delivery of attraction campaigns for Vodacom Youth programmes in conjunction with local markets, managing relationships with Universities and attraction partners.
• Harmonise our youth hiring process to deliver best-in-class candidate experience globally, while increase yield from hiring activity.
• Evolve the programme lifecycle for interns, grads and apprentices, pilot programme for Youth top talent (previous Columbus)
• Designing and running a bespoke selection processes for the many Youth programmes across Vodacom, building a clear roadmap for how we refresh assessment tools used during hiring process globally
• Build mechanisms for cohort calibration and rotations, removing manual intervention and exceeding stakeholder expectations

Communications Lead:

• Develop and manage marketing comms across different channels, leveraging internal support and driving collaboration
• Create special media strategies in different publications raising the company profile and brand image
• Attend external conferences and events to promote mobile technology, digital comms and the company brand.
• Proactive reporting and talent management of post-programme employees to track performance of programmes.
• Build scalable mechanisms to keep stakeholders informed and ensure work streams are meeting deliverable dates.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• A relevant Post Graduate Degree or Diploma (HR/Strategy/Marketing/Business Science) is essential
• At least 7 years relevant experience with a focus on workforce planning and forecasting is essential

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Proven record of design, development and implementing complex youth/graduate programmes, which include engagements with higher learning institutions or campus recruiting programs – ideally on a multi-location scale.
• Previous experience of end to end recruiting/assessments, development programmes and events management preferable.
• Experience in delivering major projects across a large complex organisation.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• Can manage ambiguity to deliver and operate effectively with simplicity.
• Coaching Skills would be an added advantage