Koffi Buckner, Rpr Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Lead, identify and pursue opportunities to close major accounts, negotiating terms and conditions to secure business partnerships and contracts.• Collaborate with the employability team to create strategic plans and approaches to successfully acquire significant news clients/companies/ partners.

• In charge of identifying and handling direct talent searches / handling full cycle recruitment for some positions (hard-to-fill positions or gender-related). • Contributing to enforcing Talent Acquisition best practices in the 11 Country Offices.

Kiev, Ukraine

Leading the Talent Acquisition Cluster, with a focus on Employer Branding, Sourcing and outreach and national staff recruitment, and capacity building of the local HR staff on these aspects.

Dakar

Based at the Regional Bureau level and supporting activities in Western Africa (19 countries, a Centre of Excellence, and a Regional Office), I was in charge of developing and implementing the strategies needed to identify, attract, and acquire the best talent to meet the organisation’s needs in the region, while supporting the respective Country Offices HR teams to ensure consistent, transparent, effective and gender-sensitive HR processes are executed within WFP rules and regulations related… Show more Based at the Regional Bureau level and supporting activities in Western Africa (19 countries, a Centre of Excellence, and a Regional Office), I was in charge of developing and implementing the strategies needed to identify, attract, and acquire the best talent to meet the organisation’s needs in the region, while supporting the respective Country Offices HR teams to ensure consistent, transparent, effective and gender-sensitive HR processes are executed within WFP rules and regulations related to the recruitments. Show less

Douala - Cameroun

I covered the Central and West Francophone Regions with a special focus on Central African countries; Cameroon, Gabon, DRC, and Congo Brazzaville.• Led, identified, and developed new business opportunities that are in line with AMSCO’s mandate (training, recruitment, advisory, expatriate management).• Responsible for managing end-to-end recruitment for the clients’ companies in the Francophone West and Central Africa Region with support to entities in Southern and East Africa.

Ghana

Based in Accra (Ghana) and covering 10 countries in the Francophone West and Central Africa; Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Mali, Senegal, Guinea Conakry, Cameroon, Gabon, DRC, and Congo Brazzaville; and supporting the Anglophone West Africa Team in Ghana and Nigeria. I specialized in recruiting leaders and C-Suite executives across various industries, encompassing skilled professionals in accounting, finance, healthcare, technology, and more.

Bénin

Human Resources Management and Organization consulting firm leader in Benin with branches in Ivory Coast and Mali; member of the Consult Synergy Group, operating in all countries of Francophone West Africa. -Type of position: executives, middle managers, supervisors and employees- Industries /sectors: Agribusiness, Banking, Automotive, Financial Services, IT, Oil & Gas, Food Industry, Transportation, Manufacturing etc. Team Management- Leading, building and managing a team… Show more Human Resources Management and Organization consulting firm leader in Benin with branches in Ivory Coast and Mali; member of the Consult Synergy Group, operating in all countries of Francophone West Africa. -Type of position: executives, middle managers, supervisors and employees- Industries /sectors: Agribusiness, Banking, Automotive, Financial Services, IT, Oil & Gas, Food Industry, Transportation, Manufacturing etc. Team Management- Leading, building and managing a team, consists of 4 recruitment consultants. - Working closely with the team on a daily basis. - Monitoring the account management, the key performance indicators of every each consultant. - Conducting weekly meeting to review team performance and to synch up what are the deliverables and the milestone. Executive Search Consulting- Short listing the suitable candidates according to the clients’ requirements- Headhunting from the selected / preferable companies- Interviewing the short listed candidates- Conducting psychometric tests (PSV 20 - AssessFirst)- Make an assessment towards the result of the interview- Managing both expectations in order to meet the business requirements. Account Management- Conducting a regular visit to the existing clients in order to gain deeper understanding of their business and needs- Creating and implementing a Business Partnering work environments which each clients. Business Development:- Acquiring new clients. - Drafting proposals for local and international recruitments biding. - Conducting sales presentation about the company.- Negotiate with the potential clients regarding the Terms of Business Show less

Bénin

- Assist and coordinate with recruitment manager, plan & accordingly prepare, monitor and control, an efficient recruitment plan.- Also receive job applications, sort and classify based on each profession and store in database for retrieval as and when required and make specific recruitment processing tasks include: short listing candidate CV’s against job descriptions, updating vacancy and applicant status within the recruitment procedure, organizing interviews and producing interview… Show more - Assist and coordinate with recruitment manager, plan & accordingly prepare, monitor and control, an efficient recruitment plan.- Also receive job applications, sort and classify based on each profession and store in database for retrieval as and when required and make specific recruitment processing tasks include: short listing candidate CV’s against job descriptions, updating vacancy and applicant status within the recruitment procedure, organizing interviews and producing interview schedules, liaising with applicants to provide updates on their progress etc. Show less