Technical Recruiter - Fixed Term
Red 6
Senior Recruiter
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
full-time
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Origin: • 🇲🇽 Mexico
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Senior
About the role
- Manage full-cycle recruitment processes for assigned roles: advertising, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and reference checking.
- Collaborate with hiring managers to define job requirements, ideal candidate profiles, and recruitment timelines.
- Partner with the Talent Acquisition team to design sourcing strategies and engage diverse candidate pools.
- Develop and implement targeted sourcing strategies tailored to each role and region.
- Identify and engage high-potential passive candidates through professional platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, academic networks, sector-specific boards).
- Maintain and update candidate pipelines and sourcing trackers.
- Conduct structured screening interviews using competency- and values-based approaches.
- Prepare interview sheets and support interview panels with relevant evaluation tools.
- Facilitate structured debriefs to support transparent and inclusive selection decisions.
- Ensure a smooth, timely recruitment process that meets both candidate and hiring manager expectations.
- Provide weekly updates to the Talent Acquisition Manager.
- Recommend improvements to processes, tools, or communications based on feedback.
- Ensure positive and respectful candidate interactions and provide timely updates to candidates and hiring teams.
- Support reference checks and offer coordination as needed.
Requirements
- Minimum 12 years of experience in international recruitment, executive search, or talent acquisition.
- Demonstrated success sourcing and hiring for complex, technical, and/or international mid-to-senior level roles.
- Strong understanding of sourcing tools, Boolean search techniques, and sector-specific networks.
- Experience working with or for mission-driven organizations, ideally in agriculture, research, development, or nonprofit sectors.
- Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Fluency in English required; Spanish a strong asset.
- Experience with applicant tracking systems is required.
- Competencies: Client Orientation; Critical and Creative Thinking; Problem Solving and Decision Making; Teamwork; Communication.
