Senior Recruiter

Position: Senior Recruiter Location: McLean, VA (Onsite) 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: 5+ years recruiting experience ideally with a combination of both agency/search firm and 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr