Sourcing Specialist

Position Summary 

Seeking a new career challenge? Then Woolpert is seeking you! Woolpert is hiring a Sourcing Specialist to join our dynamic Talent Acquisition team in our Johannesburg, South Africa office. This position reports to our Senior Director of Talent Acquisition and is responsible for sourcing candidates for Architectural, Engineering, and Geospatial roles. Qualified candidates will have prior experience identifying and sourcing top talent.

Essential Functions

As a Sourcing Specialist at Woolpert, you will:

• Work closely with the Talent Acquisition team and hiring managers to gain a clear understanding of both immediate and long-term staffing requirements.
• Proactively engage with potential candidates, creating and nurturing a talent pool for upcoming positions using platforms like LinkedIn, iCIMS, Indeed, and referrals.
• Promote and convey the company’s employer brand, highlighting its core values and distinct benefits to attract potential candidates.
• Monitor the progress of sourcing and recruitment efforts, provide consistent updates, and share important metrics with the Talent Acquisition Lead for weekly and monthly reporting.
• Assist in promoting internal initiatives like employee referral programs and social media-driven recruitment campaigns.
• Over time, possibly conduct interview screenings for “evergreen” roles and/or those roles we are consistently looking for and hiring for.

Minimum Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field required
• Strong knowledge of sourcing methods, including Boolean searches, along with experience using job boards and recruitment platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and Applicant Tracking Systems (iCIMS experience preferred).
• Sourcing experience for US jobs preferred.
• Engineering, Architecture, Construction and/or Geospatial industry preferred.
• Proven experience in successfully building and maintaining candidate pipelines.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both internal stakeholders and external candidates.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with the internal Talent Acquisition team and engage with external candidates.
• Must be a proactive, self-starter.
• Ability to create “outside the box” strategies to attract unique talent.
• Must be fluent in English.

Unique Benefits

Certified as a Great Place to Work®, Woolpert is one of the fastest growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) companies in the world. With over 60 offices and countless projects around the globe, Woolpert makes a real difference at home and abroad. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

• Diverse experiences: Work on meaningful projects that improve quality of life around the world.
• Freedom to work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Fitness reimbursement, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more: Level up your career with Woolpert. Apply today and join our team to help shape the future of tomorrow!

Why Woolpert?

Woolpert is looking for supportive, goal-oriented, and career-minded individuals who are, or are looking to become, industry leaders in their fields. We blend design excellence with innovative technology and geospatial applications to deliver exceptional value to our clients. When you join us, you'll join a team of experts who are passionate about their work and dedicated to building the next generation of industry leaders. Woolpert embraces progress and innovation, creating limitless opportunities for your career growth.

Our vision: http://woolpert.com/about-us/

Equal Opportunity Employer/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Woolpert or any of our subsidiaries about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Woolpert via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Woolpert, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Woolpert's Talent Acquisition Team for this requisition and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of Woolpert's applicant process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.