Director of Recruiting

The Director of Recruiting is a high-impact leadership role responsible for building the talent engine that fuels Statera's growth, contract success, and long-term workforce strategy. This leader will shape and execute a proactive, compliant, and data-driven recruiting function that attracts top cleared, technical, corporate, and mission-support talent in a competitive government contracting market. Partnering closely with executive leadership, hiring managers, HR, security, contracts, finance, and operations, the Director of Recruiting will strengthen hiring alignment, build trusted candidate pipelines, elevate the candidate and hiring manager experience, and represent Statera with professionalism, energy, and credibility across every stage of the recruiting process.

• Drive recruiting strategies that support company growth, contract staffing requirements, proposal needs, and long-term workforce planning.
• Collaborate with leadership, hiring managers, HR, security, contracts, finance, and operations to define staffing needs, align hiring priorities, and develop staffing matrices and candidate qualification criteria based on PWS/SOW requirements.
• Direct full life-cycle recruiting, including requisition intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, candidate evaluation, offer coordination, dispositioning, pipeline management, and onboarding handoff.
• Cultivate qualified candidate pipelines for cleared, technical, professional, corporate, and contract-specific roles while advising hiring managers on interview practices, selection decisions, and market competitiveness.
• Oversee recruiting systems, job boards, sourcing tools, referral programs, applicant tracking workflows, recruiting events, technology/vendor budgets, KPI reporting, and accurate record-keeping for Director of Human Resources oversight.
• Evaluate and communicate recruiting metrics, including time to fill, time to hire, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, cost per hire, candidate pipeline health, and related recruiting performance indicators.
• Guide compensation alignment, offer strategy, and candidate closing in coordination with HR, finance, leadership, and hiring stakeholders.
• Champion compliant recruiting practices aligned with employment laws, EEO/AAP requirements, customer requirements, internal policies, and documentation standards.
• Safeguard the company’s professional reputation while protecting confidential candidate, employee, compensation, contract, and business-sensitive information.
• Advance process improvements that strengthen recruiting efficiency, data accuracy, compliance, and candidate experience; perform additional recruiting, staffing, HR, and operational duties as assigned.

• 7+ years of progressive experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, staffing, or human resources, including leadership of recruiting strategy and execution.
• Has led recruiting programs, recruiting teams, staffing operations, or high-volume hiring initiatives for 5+ years in fast-paced environments.
• Demonstrates government contracting recruiting experience across cleared positions, technical roles, professional services, mission-support environments, proposal recruiting, incumbent capture, key personnel staffing, and contingent hiring.
• Recruiting background includes Secret, TS/SCI, and potential polygraph populations, including clearance verification and coordination.
• Maintains a firm command of full life-cycle recruiting, workforce planning, sourcing strategy, requisition management, candidate evaluation, offer coordination, and onboarding handoff.
• Applies working knowledge of EEO, AAP, OFCCP, I-9, employment eligibility, candidate record-keeping, and recruiting compliance requirements.
• Uses applicant tracking systems, HRIS platforms, job boards, Linked In, cleared job boards, Microsoft Office, and collaboration tools with advanced proficiency.
• Advises executives, hiring managers, program leaders, HR, security, contracts, finance, and external partners on staffing priorities and recruiting decisions.
• Exercises sound judgment when managing competing priorities, urgent staffing requirements, confidential information, and sensitive business needs.
• Communicates at an executive level through candidate engagement, stakeholder updates, hiring manager guidance, and leadership reporting.
• Develops recruiting metrics, dashboards, process documentation, compliance controls, and continuous improvement recommendations.
• Preferred credentials include SHRM-CP,…