Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition
Sun King
People & HR
Zambia
Posted on May 12, 2025
Job location: Lusaka, Zambia
About the role:
The Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition at Sun King will join the Human Resource department to manage and provide help in the end-to-end recruitment activities as the business continually expands across the Region to fill vacancies and promote candidate experience and employer branding.
About the role:
The Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition at Sun King will join the Human Resource department to manage and provide help in the end-to-end recruitment activities as the business continually expands across the Region to fill vacancies and promote candidate experience and employer branding.
- Department
- Human Resources and Administration
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Zambia
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- HR Leader, East and Southern Africa
What you would be expected to do:
- Ensure Timely and Quality Hires: Oversee the recruitment process to ensure all roles are filled within the set turnaround time (TAT), with a focus on sourcing high-quality candidates that align with the organization's goals and culture.
- Recruitment Experience: Work closely with all stakeholders, including hiring managers, department heads, and HR teams, to provide a seamless and positive recruitment experience for both internal teams and candidates.
- Strategic Talent Acquisition Planning: Develop and execute a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy that aligns with the organization’s long-term business goals, growth plans, and workforce needs.
- Market and Workforce Checks: Regularly identify market trends, workforce planning data, and evolving business needs to prioritize recruitment efforts and refine hiring strategies.
- Team Management and Development: Mentor the talent acquisition team, ensuring effective performance management, fostering their professional development, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Employer Brand Enhancement: Develop and promote the organization’s employer brand through marketing campaigns, social media, and strategic partnerships to attract top-tier talent and position the company as an employer of choice.
- Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and optimize recruitment processes, tools, and technologies to improve efficiency, reduce time-to-hire, and enhance the overall candidate experience, including onboarding.
- Stakeholder Relationship Management: Build strong relationships with hiring managers and department heads to know their current and future staffing needs, offer strategic advice, and ensure alignment with recruitment goals.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives: Develop and implement recruitment strategies that prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring that all talent acquisition efforts contribute to a diverse and open workforce.
- DEI Partnership: Work with DEI teams to build a diverse talent pipeline and ensure the recruitment process is fair, open, and reflective of the organization's values.
- External Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external recruitment agencies, job boards, and other talent acquisition partners, ensuring they deliver high-quality candidates and services in line with company standards.
- Recruitment Metrics and Reporting: Monitor and report on key recruitment metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, candidate quality) to senior managers, using these insights to drive continuous improvement in hiring practices.
- Data insights: Utilize data insights to make informed recruitment position and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of hiring practices.
- Compliance and Legal Adherence: Ensure all recruitment activities comply with local labor laws, global regulations, and organizational policies to mitigate risk and maintain ethical hiring standards.
- Budget Management: Oversee the talent acquisition budget, including expenses related to job advertising, recruitment events, vendor partnerships, and other hiring initiatives, ensuring cost-efficiency and maximum return on investment.
- Candidate Engagement and Experience: Implement strategies to improve candidate engagement throughout the hiring process, ensuring a positive experience from application to offer, and helping to reduce candidate drop-offs.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- Working experience in Talent Acquisition/Recruitment role of at least 6 years.
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree.
- In-depth knowledge of candidate attraction and selection methods.
- Good knowledge of full-cycle recruitment processes for both technical and non- technical recruitment.
- Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is a strong advantage.
- Good communication and people-person skills.
- Good organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize daily workload.
- Creative thinker and proactive problem solver.
- A positive, “can do” attitude.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
