Outsourced Recruitment Consultancy

BACKGROUND

Habitat for Humanity Kenya (HFHK) is among the 70 country affiliates of HFH International. In Kenya, we were registered in 1982 as Non-Governmental Organization, with the goal of enabling low-income families access decent and affordable shelter. In the last 40 years, HFHK has supported more than 342,000 households across 13 counties in Kenya through housing micro-finance and direct construction. Habitat for Humanity considers housing as a long-term, incremental process which builds on cross-sectorial interventions such as construction, water, sanitation, energy, land tenure, and policy change at different levels of governance, actors and regions. Our Business Plan (2020-2025) has outlined four Programmatic Areas namely: Financing for owner-led construction; Settlement-Based Practice; Secure Land Tenure; Disaster Risk Reduction & Response (DR3). We are currently operating in Laikipia, Homabay, Kisumu, Tana River, Nairobi, Kajiado and Machakos through providing home construction, access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, community infrastructures, advocating for increased access to land tenure security and reducing risk and respond to disasters.

Habitat for Humanity Kenya seeks a service provider for the recruitment and selection of several managers for it’s office in Nairobi. This includes recruitment of candidates at the professional and management level who possess unique and/or hard to find skills. Habitat for Humanity Kenya seeks to identify top talented Habitability manager, MEAL manager and Advocacy and policy manager through a recruitment firm. Habitat for Humanity Kenya intends to engage the recruitment firm to provide the following consultancy services on a position-by-position basis for three job vacancies.

The selected firm will provide the following recruitment services:

1. Searching and headhunting. Recruitment agency shall explore prospective candidates from its rich database, other sources, and/or by headhunting to match the skills and qualifications required by the specific job description. To achieve this, the agency may be required to undertake labor market analysis, tap networks of professional affiliations, and leverage social media and other non-traditional methods of candidate sourcing.
2. Identifying. Recruitment agency will analyze profiles identified or received through applications or other sources and identify the ones who match the position profile.
3. Shortlisting. Recruitment agency shall then share a shortlist of a maximum of five of the most qualified prospective candidates to Habitat for Humanity Kenya for final interviews and selection. If any of the shortlisted candidates do not meet the hiring managers’ expectations, Habitat for humanity Kenya may ask for additional candidates to be added to the shortlist.
4. Assessing. A recruitment agency will invite potential candidates to be assessed. Recruitment agency will conduct both oral and written assessments aimed at testing each individual’s potential. Recruitment agency will coordinate and setup interview appointments with the Habitat for Humanity Kenya hiring panel and hiring manager.
5. Reference Checking. Recruitment agency shall perform reference checks of two to three referees provided by the prospect candidates. References checks may be performed for one to three of the top interviewed candidates per position.