Lead, Recruiter and Talent Acquisition

Morgan 6•Tampa, FL

7d•$90,000 - $140,000

About The Position

This is a hands-on talent acquisition leadership role responsible for meeting Morgan 6’s immediate hiring needs while building talent pipelines for future growth. The Lead, Talent Acquisition owns full-cycle recruiting across the organization and proactively develops candidate pipelines for active contracts, anticipated awards, proposals, recompetes, and emerging business opportunities. The role partners closely with M6 leadership, Program Management, Growth, technical leads, and hiring managers to anticipate workforce needs and identify qualified talent before staffing requirements become critical. It balances immediate vacancies with longer-term recruiting priorities, including cleared and specialized positions, contingent hires, and proposal-driven staffing requirements. The ideal candidate independently drives recruiting efforts, builds relationships with high-quality candidates, and helps develop a scalable talent acquisition capability as the company grows. Morgan 6 is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and SBA-certified HUBZone company headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. It supports U.S. Government missions in areas including special operations, intelligence, cybersecurity, agile development, and IT support, and describes its guiding values as HEROIC: Honor, Excellence, Resourcefulness, One Team, Iron Sharpens Iron, and Castle Defense.

Requirements

At least 5 years of full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition experience in a government contracting environment.
Ability to independently manage multiple concurrent recruiting requirements.
Strong candidate sourcing and direct-recruiting experience.
Experience recruiting technical and professional personnel.
Experience partnering directly with hiring managers and senior leadership.
Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruiting platforms.
Strong working knowledge of LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, growth-oriented environment.
U.S. citizenship required due to the nature of M6’s government contracting work.

Nice To Haves

Defense, Intelligence Community, federal contracting, or national security recruiting experience.
Demonstrated experience recruiting cleared personnel.
Experience with proposal recruiting and contingent hiring.
Experience supporting contract transitions and rapid staffing following contract award.
Understanding of federal contract labor categories and minimum qualification requirements.
Experience supporting proposals, capture teams, and business development organizations.
Experience recruiting intelligence professionals, data scientists and analysts, software and full-stack engineers, cloud and infrastructure engineers, cybersecurity professionals, program and project managers, and technical subject matter experts.
Experience with Paylocity or similar ATS/HRIS platforms.
Established professional network within defense, intelligence, cleared, or government technology communities.
Experience developing or scaling a recruiting capability within a growing small business.

Responsibilities

Own the recruiting lifecycle from requisition development through accepted offer.
Partner with hiring managers to define position requirements, labor categories, qualifications, compensation, and hiring timelines.
Develop and maintain job descriptions and requisitions.
Source, screen, interview, and qualify candidates; coordinate interviews and partner with the VP, People & Culture on hiring decisions.
Maintain candidate communications and support offer development, negotiation, acceptance, and transition into onboarding.
Deliver a candidate experience representative of Morgan 6’s values.
Recruit personnel supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and other federal customers, including candidates with required security clearances.
Evaluate candidates against contract labor categories, education requirements, certifications, experience, and customer-specific qualifications.
Support rapid staffing after contract awards and during contract transitions; develop pipelines for difficult-to-fill technical, intelligence, operational, and program management roles.
Partner with the Growth team to understand opportunity pipelines and anticipated staffing needs.
Identify and qualify key personnel and contingent hires for proposals, and build pipelines before contract award to reduce staffing and transition risk.
Develop recruiting strategies for recompetes, new contract pursuits, OTAs, CSOs, IDIQ task orders, and other growth opportunities.
Maintain candidate relationships for future opportunities and provide capture and proposal teams with input on labor availability, compensation, qualifications, and staffing risk.
Assist with letters of commitment, contingent offer letters, resumes, and other proposal staffing documentation when required.
Build long-term talent pipelines and talent communities aligned with M6’s core markets and recurring labor categories.
Develop sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, professional networks, referrals, cleared candidate databases, and direct outreach.
Develop and manage an employee referral strategy, and monitor compensation and talent availability for priority skill sets.
Own recruiting workflows and the Applicant Tracking System (ATS); maintain accurate records of requisitions, candidates, interviews, offers, contingent hires, and pipeline candidates.
Establish repeatable recruiting processes and standards, and develop dashboards reporting requisitions, vacancies, pipelines, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, staffing risks, and upcoming contract requirements.
Ensure recruiting practices comply with applicable employment, EEO, federal contracting, and company requirements.
Advise company leadership on recruiting, establish and improve recruiting strategy, and prioritize activity based on contract execution and growth objectives.
Develop workforce plans for anticipated contract awards and strategic pursuits; recommend recruiting tools, platforms, processes, and investments.
Develop scalable recruiting processes as Morgan 6 grows.