Senior Corporate Recruiter-Team Lead

Description

About YouYou’re proactive, resourceful, and operate with a strong sense of urgency—without sacrificing accuracy or integrity. You bring new ideas, improve processes, and lean into challenges rather than wait for direction. You’re a strong communicator who builds trust with candidates, hiring managers, and leadership. You proactively source candidates, build pipelines, and maintain momentum on tough requisitions. Experience across both staffing agency and corporate recruiting environments helps you blend speed, creativity, and business partnership.

You lead by example, manage a team of Recruiting Assistants, and create an environment where they can grow, develop, and deliver exceptional support. You’re comfortable mentoring and guiding recruiters as well, helping strengthen best practices, sourcing strategies, communication approaches, and overall recruiting excellence. You’re not afraid of difficult conversations, you hold yourself accountable, and you champion the success of the team. You bring positive energy, welcome constructive feedback, and consistently push yourself to deliver strong results.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Sourcing candidates with urgency and building /maintaining strong pipelines for current and future hiring needs
• Supporting staffing efforts for proposal work and key personnel roles, including positions that may be contingent on funding or contract award
• Reviewing resumes and applications, interviewing candidates, and evaluating technical competence, background, skills, goals, and organizational fit
• Attending and conducting meetings with hiring managers to understand business needs, programs, and job requirements; executes complex recruiting strategies
• Collaborating with hiring managers, drafts compelling job descriptions, determining effective screening questions, and posts requisitions
• Acting as an advocate of the company and building /maintaining networks to strengthen applicant pools
• Sourcing talent via ATS, job boards, postings, referrals, and events
• Screening candidates to ensure they meet qualifications, align with culture, and demonstrate genuine interest
• Consulting with candidates about motivations and guides them through the hiring process
• Submitting applicants to hiring managers, coordinating interviews, and supporting hiring decisions
• Negotiating offers, preparing offer letters, and partnering with HR to facilitate smooth hiring and onboarding
• Coordinating reporting dates, clearances, and employment processing
• Updating recruiting systems/databases with accurate candidate information
• Managing and providing day‑to‑day leadership to a team of Recruiting Assistants, ensuring strong performance, development, and workload alignment
• Acting as a mentor and resource for recruiters, providing guidance on sourcing strategy, candidate engagement, closing skills, and process best practices
• Maintaining relationships with college/university placement offices
• Working special projects including proposals, new contract transitions, process improvement, and innovation initiatives
• Managing a requisition load of approximately 10–20 active requisitions
• Extending offers in accordance with company policies and procedures
• Ensuring all recruitment efforts comply with laws, policies, and hiring best practices

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Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and five to seven years of full‑cycle recruiting experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, with the ability to fill multiple hard‑to‑fill roles simultaneously
• Three to five years of recruiting cleared, technical positions within government contracting or the federal industry
• Experience in both staffing agency and corporate recruiting environments preferred
• Strong sourcing experience on Indeed and LinkedIn; ClearanceJobs experience preferred
• Professionalism, strong organization skills, and excellent communication abilities with effective verbal and written negotiation skills
• Confident in communicating multiple perspectives and providing constructive feedback to hiring managers in a respectful way
• Competitive, results‑driven, and focused on outcomes rather than effort alone
• Expert Boolean searcher and proactive recruiter who identifies and engages passive talent with urgency
• Persuasive, charismatic, and skilled in candidate sales and closing
• Highly organized, efficient, and committed to presenting qualified candidates
• Creative, solutions‑oriented thinker with the ability to identify smarter, more effective ways to work
• Proficient with Applicant Tracking Systems
• Comfortable working under pressure in a fast‑paced environment
• Builds strong, collaborative partnerships with hiring managers and anticipates future staffing needs
• Able to develop creative sourcing strategies across multiple channels, including diversity partnerships
• Demonstrates leadership qualities: leads by example, manages and develops Recruiting Assistants, mentors recruiters, maintains accountability, and drives team performance
• Comfortable navigating challenging or sensitive conversations with professionalism and clarity
• Acts as a champion for the recruiting team and contributes positively to culture and morale

Desired Skills

• Established network of cleared and un‑cleared technology professionals (SMEs, engineers, cyber, SETA, etc.)
• Experience supporting or recruiting transitioning military candidates
• Prior experience leading or mentoring recruiting support staff is a plus

Clearance Information

NO CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Travel Requirements

• Up to 10%

About Us

Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced information technology and engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry, as well as independent institutions. At the core of our capabilities is a seasoned team of highly skilled engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. This team is challenged daily to provide cutting edge technology solutions to our clients.

 

SRC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with a company match, life insurance, vacation and sick paid time off accruals with amounts increasing based on role and years of service, 11 paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a work environment that encourages excellence and more. For positions requiring a security clearance, selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

EEO

Scientific Research Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

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