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McLean, VA · Posted November 5, 2026

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Overview

Step into a pivotal role as a Recruiter , where you’ll collaborate closely with the leadership team to discover and attract top-tier professional talent. You’ll own the entire recruiting journey, from sourcing to onboarding, ensuring every step is seamless and compliant. As a trusted advisor, you’ll guide internal partners through market trends and competitive intelligence, empowering the business to thrive in today’s fast-evolving talent landscape and prepare for tomorrow’s opportunities.

Contributions

Provide recruiting support across multiple programs and stakeholders.

Serve as a subject matter expert in attracting and recruiting talent, applying advanced sourcing best practices, translating recruiting concepts to practical applications to support the business, and demonstrating the ability to flex from strategic to tactical in support of the business.

Demonstrate the ability to establish trust and confidence by maintaining a high level of credibility, integrity, and skilled communications with managers and staff.

Utilize sourcing tools and techniques to identify candidates such as online social networking, traditional networking, Boolean searches, and referrals.

Be proactive; actively engage with hiring managers, provide ongoing status of sourcing activities and candidates.

Collaborate with hiring managers to evaluate position criteria, determine candidate requirements, and sourcing options to understand staffing needs and contract terms.

Utilize candidate relationship management skills to identify, qualify, and maintain candidates.

Communicate with managers on an on-going basis to identify and review requirements and responsiveness to organizational needs.

Perform individual full life cycle technical and non-technical recruiting and functional roles to include sourcing, screening, interviewing, submitting, coordinating/scheduling interviews, and negotiating offers to have an impact on contract deliverables and talent pipeline readiness.

Strategically build pipeline for both funded, contingent work, proposals, and surge hiring efforts.

Align with organizational/government contract goals

Understand security clearance requirements.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of two years’ experience in staffing or talent acquisition.

Must be eligible for U.S. security clearance.

Proven ability to develop and execute effective sourcing strategies.

Skilled in building, cultivating, and maintaining networks of qualified passive candidates, with systems to manage candidate pools.

Demonstrated success in fast-paced, complex, and deadline-driven environments.

Results-oriented, with strong skills in managing multiple priorities.

Well-versed in OFCCP regulatory compliance.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $60,000 to $80,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology , we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.