Senior Recruiter

Position

Senior Recruiter

Location

McLean, VA (Onsite)

Summary

As a Senior Recruiter, you are a talent consultant and a business partner. You will own and execute a comprehensive recruitment strategy, leveraging data and creativity to find top-tier talent across the country to help our team's Build What Matters. You thrive on autonomy, high-stakes networking, and driving organizational growth.

Responsibilities

Strategic Partnership & Consulting

* Business Advisor:
Serve as a strategic partner to hiring teams, providing market intelligence and competitor research to guide informed, high-impact hiring decisions.

* Compensation Strategy:
Partner with HR Business Partners to analyze internal data and external labor market trends to provide competitive, data-driven salary recommendations.

* Talent Advocacy:
Build deep relationships with internal talent to support succession planning and advise on internal career mobility.

Innovative Sourcing & Execution

* Drive Growth:
Design and implement aggressive sourcing and advertising strategies, with a heavy emphasis on targeted diversity recruitment and reducing agency reliance.

* Brand Ambassadorship:
Represent Clark at national hiring events, professional networking conferences, and industry-specific forums.

* Pipeline Building:
Proactively identify and engage passive candidates through sophisticated cold calling, social sourcing, and professional networking.

Operational Excellence

* Presence & Connection:
Based onsite at our McLean, VA office, you will frequently visit and work from Clark project sites across the DMV region to build direct relationships where the work happens.

* Process Evolution:
Own the candidate experience from end-to-end; proactively seeking continuous improvement and developing new solutions to complex problems.

* Data-Driven Insights:
Leverage our ATS and people analytics to track applicant flow, measure source effectiveness, and deliver weekly performance updates to leadership.

* Collaborative Integrity:
Work as a self-motivated team player who values interpersonal relationships, collaborates with empathy, and maintains total discretion regarding confidential information.

* Excellence in Action:
Take personal responsibility for delivering excellence in every task, from high-level strategy to meticulous administrative follow-up.

Required Qualifications

* Expertise:
Comprehensive experience in full life-cycle recruiting with a proven track record of successfully sourcing passive talent.

* Client Focus:
Exceptional customer service orientation with the ability to build high-trust relationships with internal stakeholders and external candidates.

* Technical Savvy:
Applied experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and standard business suites (Office, G Suite).

* Core

Skills:

Strong negotiation tactics, analytical thinking, and a meticulous eye for detail.

* Character & Adaptability: A self-motivated team player who acts with total integrity, maintains discretion, and has the proven ability to capitalize on challenges and successfully pivot as needed.

* Requirements & Travel: BA/BS or equivalent work experience; willingness to travel up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications

* Dual

Experience:

2+ years in an agency/search firm setting combined with 2+ years of corporate recruiting experience.

* National Reach:
Demonstrated ability to recruit on a national level for multiple geographically diverse locations.

* Assessment

Skills:

Expertise in competency-based and behavioral interviewing techniques.

* Tech Stack:
Prior experience with Workday ATS, CRMs, or labor market insight tools.

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