Technical Recruiter — Cleared Programs
Find and win people for programmes that cannot be described in a job advertisement. Most of this hiring happens by referral and direct approach, which makes the craft of the first conversation the whole job.
- Location
- Arlington, VA
- Level
- Senior
- Clearance
- Secret
- Reference
- ON-PE-9901
- Division
- People
- Site
- Office · secure areas
- Region
- Americas
- Engagement
- Full-time · On site
- Travel
- Occasional — campus and community events
- Reports to
- Head of Talent
What the role is responsible for.
- Own end-to-end hiring for a portfolio of cleared engineering and analytic roles.
- Build and sustain a referral network in a community that does not respond to volume outreach.
- Run the written exchange stage to the standard candidates are promised — including the declines.
- Advise hiring managers on realistic scope, and push back when a requisition is not honest.
- Coordinate with Personnel Vetting so candidates are never left without a status.
What we need you to bring.
- Six or more years in technical recruiting, with meaningful cleared-programme experience.
- Demonstrated ability to source through relationship rather than through tooling.
- Technical literacy sufficient to hold a credible conversation with an engineer.
- Discretion, and a record of keeping it.
- Eligibility for sponsored Secret vetting.
Useful, not essential.
- Prior work inside a defence or intelligence organisation.
- Experience with clearance-transfer and reciprocity processes.
- Background as a practitioner before recruiting.
We read the preferred list as a description of a useful background, not a checklist. Candidates who meet the required list and none of the preferred are regularly hired.
Who you would be joining.
Talent sits within the People division with recruiters embedded against divisional portfolios. The team is measured on the quality and tenure of hires, not on requisition throughput.
What to know before you apply.
OmniNova does not use unverified third-party recruiters and never asks a candidate for a fee. This role is expected to enforce that.
All candidates undergo comprehensive vetting. Reasonable accommodation is available at any stage — say so in your first note and it will be arranged. We do not use unverified third-party recruiters, and we never ask a candidate for a fee.