Lead Technical Recruiting Specialist

at MAXIMUS in Boise, Idaho, United States

Maximus is currently seeking a Lead Technical Recruiting Specialist.

The Lead Technical Recruiting Specialist partners closely with executive leadership, hiring managers, and recruiting teams to drive strategic workforce planning and deliver high impact technical talent across federal civilian, health, and defense markets. This role leads advanced sourcing and recruiting efforts for funded and proposal requisitions, specializing in passive candidate engagement within cleared and technical talent markets. Responsibilities include building and managing scalable talent pipelines, executing targeted search campaigns, mentoring recruiting teams, optimizing sourcing tools and methodologies, and ensuring regulatory compliance (including OFCCP ). The Lead Technical Recruiting Specialist operates as a trusted advisor, managing complex recruitment initiatives end to end while continuously improving hiring strategies to meet evolving organizational goals.

This position is remote.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Partner with recruiters, hiring managers, and leadership to deeply understand the requirements of open positions and build accurate candidate profiles.

- Work with leaders to determine hiring needs and develop a hiring plan.

- Collaborate with leadership to develop and execute advanced staffing and sourcing strategies; source and recruit professional level candidates for both funded and proposal requisitions and build quality pipelines of passive and active talent to support corporate and all federal civilian, health and defense market Segments.

- Build sourcing strategies, specifically targeted to passive candidates.

- Build and track high-quality pipelines of potential candidates for a variety of technical roles.

- Understand the cleared and technical talent markets and be knowledgeable in the industry to successfully run targeted search campaigns.

- Assist with evaluation, selection, and implementation of new sourcing tools and procedures.

- Lead training and disseminate best practices to the recruitment team as the resident talent acquisition expert.

- Manage multiple sourcing projects from conception to completion, ensuring that all priorities and goals are achieved.

- Projects include additional recruiting support, which will require supervisory responsibilities.

- Works with senior management to develop recruitment, sourcing, and talent pipeline strategies

- Collaborates with leadership team to establish goals, objectives, and hir