About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities. 

This Opportunity:

Palladium Pakistan is seeking an experienced Recruiter to join our team. The Recruiter will play a critical role in attracting and sourcing top talent for Palladium’s active programmes primarily, with ad hoc support for business development opportunities across various sectors, including in health, education, climate change, governance, and economic growth. The Recruiter will possess strong networking skills, a deep understanding of the Pakistani job market and sectoral talent across provinces, and experience in both headhunting and open advertisement strategies. This role requires the ability to deliver rapid, end-to-end recruitment solutions, particularly for Palladium’s technical assistance programmes, requiring speedy and concurrent advertisement, sourcing, and interviewing for multiple activities.

Location:

The preferred location for this position is Islamabad, Pakistan. However, Peshawar and Lahore may also be considered.

Reporting and Supervision:

The Recruiter will report directly to Palladium’s Programme Manager in Islamabad, but have a close working relationship with Palladium’s global recruitment team – including implementing best practices in-country.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Work with programme and bid teams to understand staffing needs and develop Terms of Reference/Job Descriptions for fixed-term employees, short-, and long-term consultants.
• Post advertisements and attract applicants through using headhunting techniques, professional networking channels, and other online job platforms to identify and engage candidates.
• Provide regular updates to programme and bid teams on recruitment progress.
• Build and maintain HR/talent roster(s) of vetted consultants to quickly identify, engage, and deploy skills.  
• Conduct thorough candidate assessments, including screening discussions, interviews, due diligence, and reference checks to evaluate qualifications and experience.
• Support programme and bid teams in candidate negotiations and onboarding.
• Build and maintain relationships with external partners, such as universities, professional associations, and industry networks, to expand talent pools.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices in recruitment and talent acquisition.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as an end-to-end recruiter, preferably for an international development organisation/company. Strong preference for previous experience recruiting for both business development opportunities, as well as active programmes.
• Demonstrated expertise in forming and managing consultant rosters.  
• Strong understanding of the Pakistani job and talent market across provinces, recruitment trends, and labour laws.
• Excellent networking and relationship-building skills; evidence of robust, existing candidate networks.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Urdu.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact professionally with culturally diverse staff, clients, and consultants.
• Proven ability to onboard, manage and train people.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status. 

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at [email protected] and we will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.  All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.