Defense & Cleared Workforce Recruiter

Build pipelines of security-cleared professionals for mission-critical U.S. government and defense roles. This full-cycle recruiting position focuses on connecting highly specialized cleared talent with hard-to-fill opportunities across multiple locations and domains.

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for cleared positions, including sourcing, evaluating, and closing candidates.
• Develop and maintain pipelines of federal civilians, military officers, veterans, enlisted and NCO personnel, and professionals with prior U.S. government experience.
• Use cleared recruiting channels, including ClearanceJobs and ClearedJobs.net, along with military transition networks such as SkillBridge, TAP, and Hiring Our Heroes.
• Assess candidates'' clearance level, status, and eligibility while keeping outreach and qualification practices compliant with federal guidelines.
• Coordinate preliminary clearance verification with Facility Security Officers and customer security offices, using self-reported information as an initial screen.
• Interpret military experience, including MOS or rate and service history, to assess role fit and build trust with transitioning service members and veterans.
• Partner with hiring managers to define requirements, establish realistic timelines, and deliver a strong candidate experience through offer acceptance.

• 5-8 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant cleared, defense, or government-contracting talent acquisition experience.
• Demonstrated success placing security-cleared candidates and actively sourcing through cleared talent pools and proprietary channels.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. security clearances, including Secret, TS, TS/SCI, and polygraph requirements, reactivation windows, reciprocity, and appropriate compliance boundaries in candidate conversations.
• Ability to interpret military and veteran backgrounds, including MOS or rate, and engage credibly with transitioning service members.
• Experience with clearance-verification workflows and collaboration with Facility Security Officers or security offices.
• Strong sourcing, screening, stakeholder-management, written communication, verbal communication, organization, and metrics-focused recruiting skills.
• Ability to build pipelines for location-locked, hard-to-fill cleared roles.

• Experience recruiting for maritime or navy, drone or UAS, or combat operator roles.
• Experience as a military recruiter, Facility Security Officer, or veteran.
• Familiarity with contingent, project-based, or RPO staffing models in the defense or federal sector.

• Full-time remote role.
• Applicants must be based in the United States.

• $35-$65 per hour.