The HALO Trust is an international non-profit organization working to protect communities affected by conflict. Its teams clear landmines and other explosive remnants of war, provide safety education, and help restore access to land and livelihoods. Founded in 1988, the organization operates across Africa, Europe, South Asia, Central Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, combining humanitarian demining with environmental protection, job creation, and women’s empowerment. The HALO Trust works with governments, international agencies, and local communities to support long-term recovery and safer, more resilient communities.
Talent Acquisition Manager – London Hybrid | The HALO Trust
Lead global recruitment, sourcing and visa sponsorship for The HALO Trust, a humanitarian organisation clearing landmines and explosive remnants of war. Hybrid full-time role based in London, UK.
Description
- Create and deliver a talent acquisition strategy supporting HALO’s organisational and workforce priorities
- Work with HR colleagues, programmes, departments and hiring managers to define recruitment needs
- Assess talent shortages, hard-to-fill positions and future capability requirements
- Lead and manage complete recruitment campaigns from requisition through offer and appointment
- Prepare job descriptions, person specifications, advertisements and selection standards
- Coordinate hiring activity across programmes, countries and professional disciplines
- Build proactive sourcing approaches and develop qualified talent pipelines
- Conduct talent mapping and labour-market research
- Strengthen HALO’s employer brand and candidate experience
- Integrate equality, diversity, inclusion, safeguarding and safer recruitment standards
- Keep recruitment policies, procedures, templates, guidance and records accurate and current
- Support compliance with employment, immigration, data protection and safeguarding obligations
- Produce recruitment management information and interpret hiring data
- Improve recruitment processes, data integrity and operational efficiency
- Advise programme and departmental leaders, hiring managers, International HR Managers and HR colleagues
- Train hiring managers and panel members in recruitment and selection practices
- Oversee recruitment agencies, advertising platforms, assessment providers and other external partners
- Track recruitment costs and minimise avoidable reliance on agencies
- Manage visa sponsorship duties, including applications, renewals, changes, records and compliance deadlines
- Lead, support and guide the Resourcing Officer
- Participate in HR projects, team meetings and broader people initiatives
- Protect confidentiality, uphold HALO’s values and foster a respectful, inclusive and safe workplace
- Travel within the UK or internationally when reasonably required
Requirements
- Significant end-to-end recruitment experience gained in-house, through an agency or in a blended setting
- Demonstrated experience creating recruitment and sourcing strategies and engaging candidates proactively
- Experience influencing and advising senior stakeholders while supporting structured, equitable selection
- Experience handling multiple campaigns, recruitment systems, data, external suppliers and competing demands
- Experience overseeing visa sponsorship, immigration-related hiring activity or international placement processes
- Experience supervising, managing or developing team members
- Strong knowledge of inclusive recruitment, fair selection and safer recruitment practices
- Practical understanding of sponsor compliance, immigration records and governance for international placements
- Excellent stakeholder management, consultation, influencing, writing and verbal communication skills
- Highly organised, with strong project management and analytical skills and close attention to detail
- Discretion and sound judgement when handling confidential information, with the ability to escalate risk
- Ability to work independently across cultures, countries and time zones using recruitment technology and Microsoft Office
- Experience in humanitarian, international development, charity or not-for-profit organisations is desirable
- Experience recruiting international, field-based, technical, specialist or hard-to-fill positions is desirable
- Experience working in a geographically distributed or matrix organisation is desirable
- Experience with employer branding, high-volume recruitment or recruitment training is desirable
- A relevant HR, recruitment or talent acquisition qualification or professional membership is desirable
- Submit a CV of up to 2 pages and a cover letter of up to 1 page by 26 October 2026
- Compliance with HALO policies, its code of conduct and safeguarding requirements is mandatory
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave plus 8 statutory holidays
- Non-contributory life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- HALO pension contributions matched up to 5%
- Emergency medical insurance for overseas travel
- Flexible working policy