Director of Recruiting in Odenton, Maryland at Statera Systems Solutions LLC

Position: Director of Recruiting

Summary

The Director of Recruiting is a high-impact leadership role responsible for building the talent engine that fuels Statera’s growth, contract success, and long-term workforce strategy. This leader will shape and execute a proactive, compliant, and data-driven recruiting function that attracts top cleared, technical, corporate, and mission-support talent in a competitive government contracting market. Partnering closely with executive leadership, hiring managers, HR, security, contracts, finance, and operations, the Director of Recruiting will strengthen hiring alignment, build trusted candidate pipelines, elevate the candidate and hiring manager experience, and represent Statera with professionalism, energy, and credibility across every stage of the recruiting process.

Responsibilities and Capabilities

· Drive recruiting strategies that support company growth, contract staffing requirements, proposal needs, and long-term workforce planning.

· Collaborate with leadership, hiring managers, HR, security, contracts, finance, and operations to define staffing needs, align hiring priorities, and develop staffing matrices and candidate qualification criteria based on PWS/SOW requirements.

· Direct full life-cycle recruiting, including requisition intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, candidate evaluation, offer coordination, dispositioning, pipeline management, and onboarding handoff.

· Cultivate qualified candidate pipelines for cleared, technical, professional, corporate, and contract-specific roles while advising hiring managers on interview practices, selection decisions, and market competitiveness.

· Oversee recruiting systems, job boards, sourcing tools, referral programs, applicant tracking workflows, recruiting events, technology/vendor budgets, KPI reporting, and accurate record-keeping for Director of Human Resources oversight.

· Evaluate and communicate recruiting metrics, including time to fill, time to hire, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, cost per hire, candidate pipeline health, and related recruiting performance indicators.

· Guide compensation alignment, offer strategy, and candidate closing in coordination with HR, finance, leadership, and hiring stakeholders.

· Champion compliant recruiting practices aligned with employment laws, EEO/AAP requirements, customer requirements, internal policies, and documentation standards.

· Safeguard the company’s professional reputation while protecting confidential candidate, employee, compensation, contract, and business-sensitive information.

· Advance process improvements that strengthen recruiting efficiency, data accuracy, compliance, and candidate experience; perform additional recruiting, staffing, HR, and operational duties as assigned.

Experience

· 7+ years of progressive experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, staffing, or human resources, including leadership of recruiting strategy and execution.

· Has led recruiting programs, recruiting teams, staffing operations, or high-volume hiring initiatives for 5+ years in fast-paced environments.

· Demonstrates government contracting recruiting experience across cleared positions, technical roles, professional services, mission-support environments, proposal recruiting, incumbent capture, key personnel staffing, and contingent hiring.

· Recruiting background includes Secret, TS/SCI, and potential polygraph populations, including clearance verification and coordination.

Maintains a firm command of full life-cycle recruiting, workforce planning, sourcing strategy, requisition management, candidate evaluation, offer coordination, and onboarding handoff.

· Applies working knowledge of EEO, AAP, OFCCP, I-9, employment eligibility, candidate record-keeping, and recruiting compliance requirements.

· Uses applicant tracking systems, HRIS platforms, job boards, LinkedIn, cleared job boards, Microsoft Office, and collaboration tools with advanced proficiency.

· Advises executives, hiring managers, program leaders, HR, security, contracts, finance, and external partners on staffing priorities and recruiting decisions.

· Exercises sound judgment when managing competing priorities, urgent staffing requirements, confidential information, and sensitive business needs.

· Communicates at an executive level through candidate engagement, stakeholder updates, hiring manager guidance, and leadership reporting.

· Develops recruiting metrics, dashboards, process documentation, compliance controls, and continuous improvement recommendations.

· Preferred credentials include SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, AIRS, or a similar talent acquisition certification.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience supporting recruiting in a small to mid-sized government contracting environment with rapidly shifting staffing priorities.

· Established network within the cleared talent community, including Secret, TS/SCI, and polygraph-eligible candidates.

· Experience supporting proposal recruiting, incumbent capture, key personnel staffing, contingent offers, and contract transition staffing.

· Familiarity with ATS implementation, recruiting workflow optimization, sourcing technology, job board management, and vendor evaluation.

· Experience building or improving recruiting dashboards, KPI reporting, staffing updates, and leadership-facing recruiting metrics.

· Knowledge of OFCCP, AAP, EEO, and federal contractor recruiting compliance practices.

· Experience coordinating or attending cleared recruiting events, career fairs, customer meetings, or industry networking events.

· Professional certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, AIRS, CIR, CDR, RACR, or similar preferred.

Key Performance Indicators

· Time to fill and time to hire

· Offer acceptance rate

· Qualified candidate pipeline health

· Requisition approval and posting turnaround time

· Hiring manager satisfaction

· Candidate experience and communication responsiveness

· Recruiting compliance and documentation accuracy

· Source effectiveness and cost per hire

Work Location

Hybrid, with periodic presence at a corporate office and availability for recruiting events, customer meetings, and hiring activities as needed.

Employment Type

Full-Time

Compensation

$95,000 - $130,000

Employee Classification

Exempt

Supervisory Position

Yes

Travel

Occasional travel, estimated at approximately 10%–20%, may be required to support recruiting events, career fairs, customer or partner meetings, and other business activities.

Physical Demands

Light lifting; primarily sedentary work with extended periods of sitting and computer use.

EEO Statement

Statera Systems Solutions LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status.

Organizational Assignment

Human Resources / Talent Engagement; reports to Director of HR

Hiring Authority

CEO, President & COO, Director of Human Resources

Recruiting Lead

Human Resources / Talent Engagement

Education, Certifications, and Training

· Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Communications, or a related field required.

· Relevant experience may be substituted for education at a rate of two (2) years of experience for each year of required education toward a bachelor’s degree; candidates without a bachelor’s degree should have at least eight (8) years of directly related experience.

· Training or certification in recruiting, talent acquisition, HR compliance, OFCCP/AAP, structured interviewing, workforce planning, or sourcing strategy preferred.

· Commitment to ongoing professional development in recruiting best practices, employment law, compliance, workforce planning, and talent acquisition technology expected.

Security Clearance

Security clearance is not required for this role; however, the selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain required access if needed.