Talent Acquisition Specialist – Maternity Cover

KingMakers

Talent Acquisition Specialist managing high-volume recruitment for SuperSportBet and KingMakers Group in South Africa. Collaborating with various teams to ensure effective hiring processes.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeCape Town • 🇿🇦 South AfricaJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage end-to-end recruitment for high-volume and recurring SuperSportBet and KingMakers Group roles in South Africa: sourcing, screening, scheduling, candidate management, offers and onboarding handover.
Provide direct support to our Talent Partner in South Africa: working jointly on SSB hiring priorities, sharing pipelines and ensuring continuity of delivery across the team.
Collaborate with Talent Partners across Malta, Spain and Nigeria to support cross-region recruitment as needed.
Build and maintain strong sourcing pipelines through LinkedIn, local networks, job boards and other channels.
Assess talent through structured interviews, ensuring fairness, consistency and a high quality bar.
Own candidate background checks and pre-employment screening: initiate, follow up and close out in line with SLAs and compliance requirements.
Partner with hiring managers: share market insights, time-to-fill realities and candidate engagement best practices, and learn from their experience to refine your approach to each role.
Keep Workable (ATS) clean and current: accurate stages, notes, scorecards and statuses, every day.
Champion candidate experience throughout the hiring lifecycle, from first touchpoint to onboarding.
Promote SuperSportBet and KingMakers as employers of choice through every interaction with candidates and the wider talent community.
Innovate and improve recruitment programs and ways of working alongside the rest of the TA team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Around 2 years of experience in Talent Acquisition or recruitment, ideally in-house and in volume-heavy environments (BPO, customer service, retail, hospitality, or similar).
Reliable follow-through: when you say you'll close the loop, you do - every candidate, every hiring manager, every time.
Comfortable with admin: background checks, scheduling, contracts, document collection and compliance steps don't intimidate you - they're part of the craft.
Strong sourcing skills: proactive, creative and confident across LinkedIn, networks, job boards and Boolean search.
Hands-on ATS experience (Workable a plus, not required) comfortable keeping data clean and using funnel metrics to inform decisions.
Solid talent assessment skills: structured interviewing comes naturally and decisions are fair and evidence-based.
A people person: connecting with candidates and hiring managers comes naturally, and their experience sits at the heart of every interaction.
Team-oriented: you thrive in collaborative environments where open communication and shared goals come first - "we" takes precedence over "I."
Proactive and accountable: takes ownership without being asked, follows through to closure, and ensures nothing falls through the cracks.
Solution-oriented: when something isn't working, the instinct is to find the way forward, not to dwell on the obstacle.
Comfortable across geographies: multiple time zones, cultures and stakeholder groups.
Strong English communication: clear, direct and human - both in writing and on calls.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Pension Fund (Liberty Life): Company-supported retirement plan with employer matching contributions.
Medical Aid (Discovery Health): Company contribution towards your monthly medical cover premiums.
Comprehensive Group Risk Cover: Includes life insurance, disability income protection, critical illness benefit, and funeral cover for you and eligible dependants, as per scheme rules.
Employee Wellness Programme (ICAS / October Health): Confidential counselling and holistic support services available to you and your immediate family.
Annual Leave & Birthday Day Off: 20 working days of annual leave per year, plus one additional paid day off on your birthday.
Work From Anywhere: Up to 10 business days per year to work remotely from a location of your choice.
Hybrid & Flexible Working: This role follows a hybrid model with 3 days in-office and 2 days remote, structured around team and operational needs. This position is based in Cape Town; candidates must be located there or willing to relocate. Regular in-office attendance on designated days is a core requirement of the role.
Parking: Complimentary company-supported parking at our office, providing easy access to a prime professional workspace.

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Hard Skills & Tools

talent acquisitionrecruitmentsourcingstructured interviewingcandidate assessmentbackground checkscomplianceBoolean searchdata managementfunnel metrics

Soft Skills

reliable follow-throughstrong sourcing skillspeople personteam-orientedproactiveaccountablesolution-orientedcomfortable across geographiesstrong communicationcollaborative