The Talent Acquisition Partner at IntrepidGS supports Government, Defense, and Intelligence Community programs by applying federal contracting knowledge and structured recruiting strategies to secure qualified professionals, including cleared and non-cleared candidates. This onsite role in Florida focuses on fast-paced, time-critical staffing while upholding professionalism and confidentiality throughout the hiring lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute full-cycle recruiting strategies for cleared and non-cleared roles supporting the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community (IC), Federal Government, and commercial customers.
- Create and manage requisitions in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS), ensuring accurate documentation, candidate disposition tracking, pipeline development, and compliance with internal recruiting processes.
- Source qualified candidates through multiple channels, including professional networks, cleared talent databases, online directories, job boards, social media, employee referrals, industry events, direct outreach, cold calling, and existing ATS talent pools.
- Build and maintain strategic pipelines of cleared technical, operational, intelligence, and professional talent to support current staffing needs, anticipated program growth, contract awards, and strategic pursuits.
- Evaluate candidates against role-relevant criteria, including experience, education, training, technical capabilities, certifications, security clearance status, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other applicable qualifications for Government and contract requirements.
- Conduct screening, interviews, reference checks, compensation discussions, and other pre-employment activities while maintaining professionalism and confidentiality.
- Manage the candidate experience from initial engagement through selection, offer, background investigation, drug screening, onboarding, and start date.
- Extend and negotiate formal employment offers within established guidelines and coordinate with internal stakeholders, outside agencies, and vendors as needed.
- Support onboarding using electronic onboarding systems, ensuring required documentation and pre-employment activities are completed accurately and within established timelines.
- Provide a high level of customer service to candidates, Hiring Managers, Program Managers, and other stakeholders, while building trusted relationships across the organization.
- Partner with Capture and Proposal Managers to identify, recruit, engage, and confirm qualified key personnel in alignment with RFP, SOW, PWS, labor category, and contract requirements.
- Support proposal staffing by maintaining visibility into candidate availability, qualifications, compensation expectations, clearance status, geographic considerations, and commitment requirements.
- Support contract awards, recompetes, incumbent capture activities, and program transitions across CONUS and OCONUS locations.
- Collaborate with Program Management and Operations teams to anticipate staffing requirements and develop recruiting strategies that support contract execution and workforce growth.
- Maintain accurate and timely recruiting documentation while protecting candidate and company information in accordance with applicable policies and regulations.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, Federal Government, or other Government contracting organizations.
- Demonstrated experience recruiting for technical, professional, and/or cleared positions.
- Experience sourcing candidates for U.S. Government security clearance roles, preferably Top Secret and above.
- Experience supporting classified or sensitive Government programs, preferably across both CONUS and OCONUS environments.
- Experience supporting proposal, capture, recompete, and contract transition activities from a Talent Acquisition perspective.
- Working knowledge of Federal contracting and Government recruiting environments, including staffing considerations associated with Government programs and contract requirements.
- Familiarity with Federal Service Contract Act (SCA) Wage Determinations and applicable Federal and State employment and labor requirements.
- Strong knowledge of contemporary Talent Acquisition practices, sourcing methodologies, recruiting technology, and industry standards.
- Advanced proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems, recruiting databases, online job boards, professional networking platforms, and candidate relationship management tools.
- Demonstrated ability to develop innovative sourcing strategies for scarce, highly specialized, and cleared talent.
- Strong understanding of security clearance considerations and their impact on sourcing, qualification, onboarding, and staffing timelines.
- Ability to interpret technical and contractual requirements and translate them into actionable recruiting strategies.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience interacting effectively with executives, Program Managers, Hiring Managers, Government customers, candidates, vendors, and external recruiting partners.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with candidates and internal stakeholders throughout the recruiting lifecycle.
- Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and follow-through.
- Ability to manage multiple requisitions, proposal requirements, candidate pipelines, and competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong time-management and prioritization skills, with the ability to operate independently while contributing effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Demonstrated discretion and professionalism when working with sensitive, proprietary, and classified-program-related information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Marketing, or a related discipline.
- Experience recruiting for hard-to-fill technical, intelligence, engineering, cybersecurity, logistics, or mission-support positions.
Technology
- Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Equal Opportunity Information
Intrepid Acquisition Holdings, LLC (IAH) and its affiliates are an EOE, including disability and veteran status. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Website: www.intrepidgs.com