Talent Acquisition Specialist

Education: A Bachelor’s degree is preferred in a related field or equivalent experience; or an equivalent combination of related training and experience, along with industry-relevant certifications. SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) or SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) credential is a plus.

Experience: At least five years of experience recruiting for a federal contractor.

Security Clearance: Not required

Summary

The Talent Acquisition Specialist will act as a strategic partner and advisor to stakeholders across the organization, delivering comprehensive full life-cycle recruitment support to attract and secure top talent. This role is responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process for both exempt and non-exempt positions, ensuring timely, cost-effective, and high-quality hiring outcomes that align with the organization’s workforce needs and business objectives. 

The responsibilities of this position are: 

Primary

• Partner with hiring managers to determine and understand staffing needs, gain a high-level technical understanding of the roles, and develop job-specific recruiting and sourcing approaches
• Conduct in-depth analysis of contractual requirements and performance work statements to inform the development of well-defined position descriptions and job postings
• Ensure posted positions include all required information, accurately reflect position duties, and follow federal, state, and local employment laws, regulations, and company policies
• Screen resumes, conduct interviews (by phone or in person), administer appropriate assessments and reference/background checks, and make recommendations for hire or non-hire
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of company policies, compensation approaches, and benefit offerings to effectively share with candidates
• Support the contract transition process both before and after the contract award
• Maintain contact with contingent hires and high-potential candidates to keep them apprised of the status of their applications and connected with the company
• Maintains accurate and compliant candidate records within the ATS, supporting data consistency and adherence to internal documentation standards
• Maintains, updates, and disseminates the ATS User Guide and Standard Operating Procedures
   Oversees the end-to-end management of the Applicant Tracking System (ATS), including user access, system configuration, and overall system integrity, ensuring alignment with company policies and regulatory requirements 
• Develop a viable talent pool to ensure the company is well-positioned to backfill vacancies rapidly

Secondary

• Responsible for assisting with the development, implementation, and tracking of the organization’s talent acquisition strategy, including reporting key metrics
• Provide data and recommendations relating to compensation for various positions, based on experience, information gathered from the applicant tracking system (ATS), interviews with candidates, and other validated data sources that may be relevant
• Engage business development through meetings, standard and ad-hoc reporting, and pipeline analysis to ensure a complete understanding of efforts in the capture stage of the business development life cycle
• Develop and deploy advertising campaigns (internal and external) to ensure high visibility with potential candidates through traditional and non-traditional resources, such as career fairs, job boards, community organizations, online job fairs, community network events, etc., to identify and attract quality candidates, posts and places ads in the most effective digital and print media for open positions

Tertiary

• Conduct research, collect and share relevant information, and provide input on industry best practices for benefits to ensure the company continues to offer a competitive benefits package
• Develop and maintain relationships with third-party recruiting specialists to leverage their expertise when filling unique and hard-to-fill positions
• Identify and develop relationships with various community organizations for existing and planned future work
• Develops and delivers comprehensive training for hiring managers and system users on ATS functionality, internal recruitment processes, and applicable employment laws to promote consistent, efficient, and compliant system usage

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of principles and procedures for sourcing and hiring for cleared personnel, recruitment, selection, training, compensation, and benefits.
• Demonstrates a proactive and self-motivated work ethic, taking initiative to anticipate needs, solve problems, and drive results independently..
• Able to think and operate strategically and tactically.
• Able to prioritize and easily navigate between recruiting for existing work and new opportunities, while supporting capture efforts to drive long-term company growth.
• Ability to effectively interact with executive leadership and partner closely with the delivery operation and consulting organizations.
• Skilled in internet searches (Boolean, Key Words) and social media (LinkedIn, Clearance Jobs, etc.)
• Professionally curious and willing to learn and teach, I ask questions, initiate technical conversations with subject matter experts and hiring managers to gain a deeper understanding of the work VectorCSP is pursuing.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, timeline-driven environment with competing priorities.
• Demonstrated HRIS experience.
• Knowledge of laws, FAR, and executive orders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with good negotiation tactics.
• Ability to operate in a professional office environment. This role routinely utilizes standard office equipment, including laptop computers, smartphones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and scanners.
• Ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications. 
• Ability to travel at least 15% of the year for multiple days.

Competencies

The following competencies are role-specific, in addition to VectorCSP’s eight core competencies: Teamwork, Accountability, Client Focused, Decision Making, Communication, Professionalism, Problem-Solving, and Technical/Professional Expertise. 

• Creativity: Generates numerous new and innovative ideas; quickly connects previously unrelated concepts; tends to be perceived as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Hiring and Staffing: Possesses a keen eye for talent, identifying the best individuals available from within or outside; is not afraid to select strong candidates; assembles a talented staff.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, both within and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; fosters constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can comfortably diffuse even high-tension situations.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new challenges; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will not manage employees.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment and standard business software, including MS Office suite and associated tools.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, talk, or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move office products and supplies up to 20 pounds.