Defense & Cleared Workforce Recruiter

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for security-cleared roles, including sourcing, evaluating, and closing candidates across multiple domains and locations.
• Develop and maintain pipelines of security-cleared talent, including federal civilians, military officers, veterans, enlisted and NCO personnel, and professionals with prior U.S. government experience.
• Use specialized cleared sourcing channels and military transition networks to identify and engage qualified candidates.
• Screen candidates for security clearance level, status, and eligibility while maintaining compliance with applicable federal guidelines.
• Coordinate clearance verification with Facility Security Officers and customer security offices while using self-reported information only as a preliminary filter.
• Translate military experience, including MOS or rate and service history, into relevant civilian role qualifications.
• Build rapport and trust with transitioning service members and veterans throughout the recruiting process.
• Partner with hiring managers to define requirements, establish realistic hiring timelines, and deliver a strong candidate experience from sourcing through offer.

Skills

Requirements

• 5–8 years of full-cycle recruiting experience with significant focus on cleared, defense, or government-contracting talent acquisition.
• Demonstrated success placing security-cleared candidates and actively sourcing within cleared talent pools.
• In-depth understanding of U.S. security clearances, including Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, and polygraph requirements.
• Understanding of clearance reactivation windows, reciprocity, and compliance boundaries during candidate conversations.
• Ability to interpret military and veteran backgrounds, including MOS or rate and service history.
• Familiarity with clearance verification workflows and collaboration with Facility Security Officers or security offices.
• Expert sourcing, screening, pipeline development, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to recruit for location-specific and hard-to-fill security-cleared positions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with strong organizational and metrics-oriented capabilities.
• Must be based in the United States.
• U.S. citizenship may be required for certain positions and data access.
• Experience recruiting in specialized areas such as maritime or Navy operations, drone or UAS programs, or combat operations is preferred.
• Background as a military recruiter, Facility Security Officer, or veteran is advantageous.
• Experience with contingent, project-based, or RPO staffing models in the defense or federal sector is preferred.

Benefits

• Fully remote full-time opportunity for U.S.-based professionals.
• Opportunity to recruit security-cleared talent for mission-critical U.S. government and defense work.
• Work directly with military, veteran, federal, and security-cleared professional communities.
• Opportunity to build specialized talent pipelines across high-impact defense domains.
• Collaboration with hiring managers, Facility Security Officers, and customer security teams.