Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

DHRM•Manassas, VA

About The Position

The Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant serves as a strategic recruiting partner to agency leaders and manages full-cycle recruitment from workforce planning through a new hire’s first day. The role applies employment-law and merit-based hiring requirements, develops targeted recruitment strategies, and uses data to improve hiring outcomes. The consultant supports hiring managers with position requirements, approvals, job postings, sourcing, application screening, interviews, selection recommendations, and salary offers. The role also leads recruitment outreach and employer-branding activities, builds relationships with external partners, coordinates pre-employment checks and new-hire handoffs, and maintains accurate, audit-ready recruitment records and tracking systems.

Requirements

Knowledge of federal and state employment laws and regulations governing recruitment and selection, including equal employment opportunity and merit-based hiring requirements, and ability to apply them to postings, screening, and selection decisions.
Experience conducting full-cycle recruitment, including developing job postings, screening applications, coordinating interviews, and communicating with candidates through the offer stage.
Experience sourcing candidates through multiple methods, such as job boards, professional networking platforms, career fairs, referrals, and educational or professional partnerships.
Experience developing structured interview questions and conducting screening interviews using structured interview techniques.
Experience advising hiring managers on staffing needs, position requirements, recruitment strategies, and hiring processes.
Experience delivering training or orientation sessions, such as interview training for managers or orientation for new hires.
Experience planning and coordinating recruitment events, including logistics, materials, and staffing.
Experience establishing and maintaining recruitment relationships with external partners such as educational institutions, professional associations, community organizations, or veteran service organizations.
Experience developing recruitment marketing materials and content, including social media content.
Experience coordinating pre-employment processes, including background checks, fingerprinting, and reference verification.
Experience tracking and analyzing recruitment data, such as candidate sources, conversion rates, time-to-fill, and diversity metrics, and preparing reports with recommendations.
Experience maintaining confidential recruitment records and documentation in compliance with policies, regulations, and retention requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience using PageUp and Cardinal for recruitment and personnel processing.
Knowledge of DHRM Policy 2.10 (Hiring) and Commonwealth of Virginia hiring practices.
Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter or similar candidate sourcing tools.
Experience developing recruitment strategies for hard-to-fill or specialized positions.
Experience recommending and implementing recruitment process improvements based on data and outcomes.

Responsibilities

Partner with hiring managers on workforce planning, position requirements, recruitment strategies, and hiring processes, including guiding positions through approval.
Develop compelling, compliant job postings that reflect the DMV brand.
Manage full-cycle recruitment, including posting opportunities in PageUp and on external platforms; sourcing candidates; screening applications; coordinating and conducting interviews; facilitating interview panels; reviewing selection recommendations; working with Classification and Compensation on salary offers; and communicating with candidates.
Develop structured behavioral and technical interview questions with hiring managers and conduct screening interviews using structured criteria.
Plan and staff career fairs, information sessions, virtual events, hiring events, and open houses.
Build relationships with universities, community colleges, trade schools, professional associations, community organizations, and military transition and veteran service programs.
Support employer branding through promotional materials, recruitment social media, videos, and employee testimonials.
Track candidate sources, event conversion rates, return on investment, time-to-fill, and diversity metrics, and make recommendations based on the data.
Coordinate background checks, fingerprinting, and reference verification; hand off complete new-hire packages to HR Services; and support new employees during their transition.
Maintain recruitment files in accordance with DMV policy, federal regulations, and retention schedules, and keep the Talent Acquisition Dashboard and related tracking systems current.
Deliver training or orientation sessions, such as interview training for managers or new-hire orientation.