Recruitment Consultant - Defence and Public Sector

Recruitment Consultant – Defence & Public Sector (SC / DV / eDV Tech)

We’re looking for a recruiter who already understands the cleared market.

Not someone who wants to “learn it” or “break into defence” — you’ve already recruited SC / DV / eDV candidates, you know how slow, sensitive and relationship‑driven it is, and you’re comfortable operating in that space.

You’ll be owning and growing a desk focused on secure government and defence technology roles.

That means:

• Delivering into SC, DV and eDV‑cleared roles across areas like software engineering, cloud, cyber, infrastructure and data
• Working with candidates who don’t live on job boards and don’t respond to generic outreach
• Managing long hiring cycles, complex stakeholders and tight compliance requirements
• Building trusted relationships with both candidates and clients in a highly network‑driven market
• Running processes properly — not throwing CVs over the fence

• Proven experience recruiting into UK defence / public sector tech roles
• Strong understanding of SC, DV and eDV clearance levels (and what they actually mean in practice)
• Track record of placing candidates in secure or classified environments
• Comfortable handling sensitive conversations and candidate situations
• Able to work quality‑first — this isn’t a volume CV shop
• Ideally experience across one or more of:
• Cyber Security
• Software Engineering
• Infrastructure / Networks
• Data / AI

This market is:

• Relationship‑led, not transactional
• Slower moving, but higher value
• Candidate‑short, not job‑short
• Built on trust and reputation

If you know how to build a network, manage complexity, and deliver properly — you’ll do very well here.

• Access to live, high‑value roles in defence and secure government projects
• Support to build a genuinely specialist desk (not just fill jobs)
• A business that understands this market — not one trying to “have a go at it”
• Strong earning potential aligned to a high‑margin, low‑volume model
• A grown‑up environment — no micromanagement, no KPI theatre