About this role
Senior Talent/Recruitment Officer
West African Exploration and Production Company (WAEP) is an indigenous energy company focused on the exploration, development, and production of hydrocarbon resources across West Africa headquartered in Lagos State, Nigeria.
WAEP is committed to delivering safe, efficient, and sustainable energy solutions through the application of industry best practice...
Senior Talent/Recruitment Officer
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND , Professional Certificate
- Experience 10 - 15 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Human Resources / HR
Role Purpose
- Lead and support end-to-end talent acquisition and manpower requisition activities, ensuring WAEP attracts, assesses and engages suitably qualified talent for technical, operational and corporate roles in line with approved workforce plans, recruitment standards and business requirements
Core Competencies
- Strategic talent acquisition
- Manpower requisition management
- Competency-based interviewing screening
- Oil and gas technical recruitment
- Executive and specialist search
- Candidate assessment and due diligence Recruitment analytics and reporting .
- Offer management and engagement and stakeholder
- ATS/recruitment database management
- Confidentiality, judgment and documentation discipline
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Time-to-fill approved vacancies
- Quality and suitability of shortlisted candidates
- Recruitment process and documentation compliance Hiring-manager satisfaction
- Offer acceptance and candidate conversion rate Accuracy and timeliness of recruitment reporting Effectiveness of sourcing channels and talent pipelines
- Audit readiness of recruitment files
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate approved manpower requisitions from initiation through sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and onboarding.
- Partner with hiring managers to clarity role requirements, job descriptions, competencies, experience criteria and recruitment timelines.
- Develop sourcing strategies for specialist, technical leadership and hard-to-fill upstream oil and gas positions. Manage vacancy advertisements, candidate databases, recruitment channels and professional sourcing platforms. Screen applications and CVS against approved qualifications, experience and competency requirements and prepare defensible shortlists.
- Coordinate competency-based interviews, technical assessments, panel documentation, candidate communications and recruitment logistics.
- Conduct candidate due diligence, reference checks and verification of emplo