Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Hybrid

KingMakers is hiring a Talent Acquisition Specialist (Maternity Cover)

Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end recruitment for high-volume and recurring SuperSportBet and KingMakers Group roles in South Africa: sourcing, screening, scheduling, candidate management, offers and onboarding handover.
  • Provide direct support to our Talent Partner in South Africa: working jointly on SSB hiring priorities, sharing pipelines and ensuring continuity of delivery across the team.
  • Collaborate with Talent Partners across Malta, Spain and Nigeria to support cross-region recruitment as needed.
  • Build and maintain strong sourcing pipelines through LinkedIn, local networks, job boards and other channels.
  • Assess talent through structured interviews, ensuring fairness, consistency and a high quality bar.
  • Own candidate background checks and pre-employment screening: initiate, follow up and close out in line with SLAs and compliance requirements.
  • Partner with hiring managers: share market insights, time-to-fill realities and candidate engagement best practices, and learn from their experience to refine your approach to each role.
  • Keep Workable (ATS) clean and current: accurate stages, notes, scorecards and statuses, every day.
  • Champion candidate experience throughout the hiring lifecycle, from first touchpoint to onboarding.
  • Promote SuperSportBet and KingMakers as employers of choice through every interaction with candidates and the wider talent community.
  • Innovate and improve recruitment programs and ways of working alongside the rest of the TA team.

Requirements

  • Organised, reliable and unflappable
  • Thrives on follow-through
  • Finds genuine satisfaction in a clean ATS and a well-managed pipeline
  • Enjoys keeping the trains running
  • Strong execution skills
  • Attention to detail
  • People skills
  • Ability to manage end-to-end recruitment processes
  • Experience with applicant tracking systems (specifically Workable)
  • Experience conducting structured interviews
  • Ability to manage candidate background checks and pre-employment screening

Nice to Have

  • Experience supporting Talent Partners in a multi-region environment
  • Experience collaborating with teams across different regions (Malta, Spain, Nigeria)
  • Experience in high-volume recruitment
  • Experience recruiting for Customer Service, Operations, Payments, Marketing, or entry to mid-level roles
Required Skills
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KingMakers
KingMakers is a digital entertainment group proudly built in Africa, for Africa. Since our beginnings in 2018, we’ve grown into a team of more than 700 professionals across Lagos, Cape Town, Madrid, Malta and London. Through our brands BetKing (Nigeria) and SuperSportBet (South Africa and Zambia), we connect millions of fans every day. Backed by MultiChoice Group, Africa’s largest pay-TV operator, we combine the credibility and reach of a major media company with the ambition and agility of a scale-up. Our vision is bold: to be the African home of sports and iGaming entertainment, where play is innovative, inclusive and always responsible.
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Posted 3 days ago