Principal Technical Recruiting Specialist

at MAXIMUS in Boise, Idaho, United States

Maximus is currently seeking a Principal Technical Recruiting Specialist. In this role, you will partner 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 Principal 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 & Responsibilities:

- Serve client organizations as a key talent advisor providing consultative leadership as labor market analyst, candidate career coach, hiring strategy consultant, and process change agent.

- Lead large, complex recruiting initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams with associated reporting and communication demands.?

- Coach and train other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

- Communicate and influence senior leadership in matters of strategic importance including providing briefings to senior leaders inside and outside the recruiting function.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Serve client organizations as a key talent advisor providing consultative leadership as labor market analyst, candidate career coach, hiring strategy consultant, and process change agent.

- Lead large, complex recruiting initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams with associated reporting and communication demands.

- Coach and train other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

- Communicate and influence senior leadership in matters of strategic importance including providing briefings to senior leaders inside and outside the recruiting function.

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

- Work with leaders to