Technical GovCon Recruiting Lead

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

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Ardent is seeking a Technical GovCon Recruiting Lead to join our team.  

This is a Remote role.

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Technical GovCon Recruiting Lead who will execute and deliver on the full 360 Ardent talent recruitment lifecycle with precision, organization, and drive.  We are looking for a talent advisor with a background in recruiting highly technical talent for a technology firm whose primary customer is the Federal Government. The successful person in this role is hyper organized, fast and efficient, with the ability and willingness to follow and enforce business and talent recruitment processes. This position will be responsible for successfully managing, prioritizing and closing searches against a timeline and have experience setting benchmarks, metrics, and proven experience to independently prioritize. The successful candidate will have a hunger to close positions with the best possible talent, follow business processes, and loves working in a fast-paced environment. Attention to detail is a must for this role and will be expected to provide a first-class candidate experience and ensure candidates understand the company background, requirements, culture, and Ardent’s employee value proposition. This position will manage a small team of technical recruiters and their workloads.

Responsibilities:

• Provide 360 talent recruitment services to the organization’s key stakeholders and candidates.
• Source, review, interview, and lead offer negotiations that directly align with position requirements with a keen business and financial mindset.
• Create trust with hiring teams and administer talent processes with diplomacy and respect.
• Provide talent recruitment advisory services to ensure position descriptions, scorecards and salaries are aligned with requirements and market data while effectively working with hiring managers.
• Prepare candidates for upcoming interviews with hiring managers and technical review teams.
• Maintenance and upkeep of all talent recruitment tools such as Greenhouse ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter and Jobs, and job boards such as Dice and Indeed.
• Conduct research on candidate market data and trends.
• Provide training on talent processes to hiring managers.
• Execute and monitor talent recruitment metrics.
• Manage a team of technical recruiters.
• Support ad hoc corporate projects outside of recruiting, as needed.

Requirements:

• 3+ years recruiting technical talent for a high output, Federal technology government consulting firm to include cleared personnel (Secret, Top Secret).
• Experience building and executing recruitment plans for Federal government funded contracts, proposals – key personnel, and building strategic pipelines.
• Understanding of recruitment tools and technology, including leveraging AI for automation.
• Capable of generating high quality and volume candidate pipeline under tight deadlines
• Proven track record of hyper organization.
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally virtually, in-person and in writing.
• Experience maintaining talent recruitment forecasts.
• Capacity to work independently and possess the ability to collaborate with various teams, to include executive leadership.
• Capability to mentor and advise junior talent recruitment professionals.
• Commitment beyond traditional working hours to fulfill recruitment goals.
• Intermediate Greenhouse ATS experience is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Candidates with a large technical network are encouraged to apply.

Due to the nature of the work, we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

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Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

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