Senior Recruiter

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.