Job Description

1st Choice is seeking a dedicated and experienced Government Contract Recruiter that is located within the Greater Washington, D.C. area to work directly with our government contract division.  This is a remote role for a candidate that sits in the DMV and is crucial in sourcing, attracting, and hiring top tiered talent for our government clients working hand-in-hand with our business development and account executive team to meet proposal deadlines.   

Job Description and Duties:

• Recruitment: Identify, interview, and recommend suitable candidates for local, state, and federal government clients and proposals.

• Candidate Communication: Clearly convey requirements and duties to prospective candidates.

• Database Management: Maintain and update candidate information in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

• Compliance: Ensure adherence to recruitment policies, standards, and regulations.  Ensure compliance according to our client's specifications, verifying candidate's license numbers, education, certifications, etc.

• Job Advertising: Promote job openings across various channels (job boards, careers pages, social platforms).

• Collaboration: Coordinate with managers and clients to assess current and future hiring needs.

• Virtual Events: Participate in virtual job fairs and organize recruitment events.

• Screening and Assessment: Conduct pre-employment screening, including reference checks.

• Process Design: Develop hiring procedures, including position-specific assessments and interview questions.

• Relationship Building: Adept in building professional relationships with clients, candidates and our business development and account executive teams.  The ideal candidate will have already established network of highly qualified clinical candidates.

• Strategic Planning: Assist in planning and implementing talent acquisition strategies.

• Policy Development: Contribute to company policies related to talent benchmarking, assessment, and interviewing.

• Sourcing: Actively source candidates to fill open positions.  Passively source to attract high caliber candidates needed to fill high profile roles quickly.

• Proposal Recruitment:  Working against tight deadlines to sources and interview candidates, formatting resumes, and submitting  candidates to the business development team on schedule.

• Organizational Analysis: Analyze organizational development and anticipate future employment needs.

• Networking: Represent the company at events to build relationships with potential candidates.

• Candidate Counseling: Advise candidates on corporate benefits, salary, and work environment.

• Candidate Engagement: Maintain relationships with past and potential candidates.

• Administrative Tasks: Manage candidate pools and handle hiring paperwork.  Entering all appropriate information into our ATS system in a timely manner.

• Collaboration with HR and Marketing: Regularly communicate with HR and work with marketing to address challenges, or to request marketing materials when needed.

• Market Intelligence: Proactively seek market insights to enhance attraction, assessment, and sourcing.

• Innovation: Suggest new ideas for improving talent acquisition activities.

• Industry Trends: Stay informed about talent acquisition trends in the staffing industry.

   

Required Skills:

• Sourcing, recruiting, and interviewing for government contracts.  Comfortable with recruiting for proposals under tight deadlines.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• 4+ years of staffing experience in the government sector.  Agency and corporate experience will both be considered.

• Highly organized and efficient in time management.

• Ability to work under pressure and meet multiple deadlines simultaneously.

• Knowledge of recruitment and legal aspects of the hiring process.

• Attention to detail with the ability to remained focused and when necessary, shift focus as per the demands of the business.

• Hardworking, dynamic, and a team player.

• Greet each day enthusiastically, ready to match candidates with available opportunities for our clients.

Qualifications:

• Previous experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist (preferably 4+ years).  Recruiting for government contracts and proposals is mandatory.  Only candidates with more than 4+ years with this experience will be considered.  

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a relevant field (preferred).

• Strong understanding of full-cycle recruitment processes.

• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.

• Impactful presentation style.

• Excellent organizational and time management abilities.

• Creative thinker and proactive problem solver.

• Positive, “can-do” attitude.

   

Work Hours:Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM

Pay:Salary Based Upon Experience 

1st Choice is a professional management consulting firm with more than two decades of experience delivering innovative consulting, technology, and staffing solutions to federal and commercial organizations throughout the United States. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require reasonable accommodation during the application process, please notify us. We are committed to working with you to meet your needs. 

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