Talent Acquisition Coordinator (8-month contract) Cape Town

Cape Town

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today's threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at

Job summary

The Talent Acquisition Coordinator is a junior role within the HR Shared Services team, providing hands on support to DigiCert's global recruitment operations. This role is ideal for someone early in their HR or TA career who is organised, detail oriented, and energised by working in a fast moving, people focused environment. You will be the operational support behind our hiring activity - keeping the candidate pipeline moving, scheduling interviews, maintaining our ATS, and ensuring every candidate has a great experience from first contact to offer.

This is a day shift role (09h00 - 18h00 SAST), primarily supporting EMEA and early AMS hiring activity. You will work closely with TA partners and hiring managers during core business hours, ensuring strong coverage across European and morning Americas time zones.

This is a 8 month fixed term contract position.

What you will do

• Create and post job requisitions in Greenhouse, ensuring all approvals and details are in place
• Schedule interviews across all stages, managing calendars and coordinating across global time zones
• Send candidate communications including confirmations, reminders, and joining instructions
• Maintain and update canned response templates in Greenhouse for candidate facing messaging
• Provide AMS and APJ coverage for TA queries and ensure a seamless handover with the broader HRSS team
• Support the TA team with ad hoc projects, process improvements, and reporting as needed
• Manage day to day ATS (Greenhouse) hygiene - updating pipeline stages, dispositioning candidates, and keeping records accurate
• Screen incoming CVs against role requirements and flag shortlisted candidates for recruiter review
• Source candidates via LinkedIn and job boards to build active pipelines
• Support the TA team with ad hoc projects, process improvements, and reporting as needed

What you will have

• 2+ years of experience in a recruitment or in a TA coordination role in a global or multi region hiring environments (preferred)
• Passionate about Talent administration
• Familiarity with an ATS - Greenhouse experience is a plus
• Strong organisational skills with great attention to detail
• Clear, professional written communication
• Comfortable juggling multiple tasks and priorities in a busy team
• A collaborative, team first attitude
• Ability to work the 09:00 - 18:00 SAST (Monday - Friday) shift reliably, including handover responsibilities

Nice to have

• Tool Experience: LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse Recruit and Onboarding, ADP, JIRA, Hire Right(advantageous)
• Exposure to global or multi region hiring environments
• Provident Fund
• Medical Aid + Gap Cover
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance

Digicert invites you to self identify your personal demographic information to help continue our mission to foster inclusivity and diversity in our workplace. In keeping with the DigiCert Care culture, our values set the foundation for how we act, how we make decisions and how we win. These values shape our work culture and demonstrate our dedication to ensuring everyone is welcomed and supported. We invite you to self identify your gender. Completing this survey is voluntary and you may select "Decline to Disclose", but we hope you choose to participate.

Your responses to this survey will also help DigiCert live up to our commitment to build inclusive teams that reflect the communities we serve. Responding is completely optional and voluntary and does not affect your standing as a candidate. Whatever your decision, it will not be used for the purposes of any employment decision. However, we do hope that you will participate because your responses help us measure the effectiveness of our outreach and recruitment. Any information you do provide is anonymized and stored separately from your application in a confidential file, and the information cannot be viewed by your interview team or hiring manager at any time.

We hope you will join us in our commitment and enthusiasm for making DigiCert a place where everyone belongs!