Recruiting Manager
About The Position
Everforth ECS is seeking a Recruiting Manager to work in its Fairfax, Virginia office. The Recruiting Manager leads a high-performing recruiting team and delivers proactive, data-informed talent strategies that support organizational priorities and growth. The role works closely with business leadership, hiring managers, Human Capital, and Resource Management to anticipate workforce needs, strengthen talent pipelines, improve recruiting operations, and provide a strong experience for candidates and hiring managers. The manager leads, coaches, and develops recruiters while personally managing approximately 30% of the recruiting workload, including high-demand, difficult-to-fill, and complex roles. The position oversees recruiting practices, sourcing channels, staffing partner relationships, applicant tracking system data quality, process improvement, and reporting on recruiting outcomes and workforce trends.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Proven experience recruiting for government programs.
- Experience supporting cleared, technical, professional, and program-based hiring needs in a government contracting environment.
- Experience developing recruiters, implementing recruiting process improvements, and driving applicant tracking system data quality.
- Strong knowledge of the government contracting recruiting lifecycle, including security-clearance requirements, customer-driven hiring needs, and program staffing demands.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to build trusted relationships with executives, hiring managers, recruiters, candidates, and cross-functional partners.
- Experience using applicant tracking systems, recruiting platforms, sourcing tools, and reporting dashboards.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to translate recruiting data into practical actions and strategies.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail and service quality.
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and fair hiring practices throughout the recruitment process.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute recruiting strategies aligned with organizational goals and current and future workforce needs.
- Partner with business leadership, hiring managers, Human Capital, and Resource Management to identify hiring demand, priority roles, program requirements, and anticipated talent needs.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters; set expectations, drive accountability, and support professional growth.
- Conduct regular recruiter team meetings to communicate business updates, align priorities, assess workload and resource needs, and remove obstacles.
- Personally manage approximately 30% of the recruiting workload, with responsibility for high-demand, difficult-to-fill, and complex roles, including cleared, technical, niche, key personnel, executive, and priority program positions.
- Ensure accurate, timely, and complete candidate, requisition, and workflow data in the applicant tracking system.
- Establish, communicate, and maintain recruiting best practices to create a consistent, efficient, and collaborative operating model.
- Oversee sourcing strategies across job boards, social media, employee referrals, networking, talent communities, and other recruiting channels.
- Build and maintain relationships with approved staffing partners, external organizations, and industry networks to expand candidate pipelines.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for recruiters and help resolve candidate, hiring manager, process, and difficult-to-fill role challenges.
- Monitor and continuously improve recruiting processes to support an efficient, professional candidate and hiring manager experience.
- Partner with HR and hiring managers to support timely communication, interview feedback, and alignment throughout the hiring process.
- Strengthen the employer brand through a high-quality candidate experience, consistent messaging, and external market engagement.
- Analyze recruiting performance and market data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement, including time to fill, start-date forecasting, source effectiveness, and job-board usage.
- Provide leadership with regular reports and actionable insights on hiring outcomes, pipeline health, recruiting capacity, and workforce trends.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
