Recruiter

Dewberry is currently seeking a Recruiter to join and support Dewberry’s Disaster Recovery Division. The Recruiter will provide full life-cycle recruitment services for CADRE positions that are highly technical and professional staffing and that target high quality and diverse candidates. This is a great opportunity to be a critical member of a high-performing team and can be located in Fairfax, VA or any of our divisional offices.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with DRS resource and deployment managers to plan and execute talent needs.
• Manage and perform full cycle recruiting including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing top talent.
• Identify and source top talent through multiple venues such as job boards, industry-specific sites, college and university campus job fairs and contacts, social media outlets, and other sourcing means.
• Develop strong relationships with the company’s operational leaders, external professional organizations, and industry contacts to identify qualified leaders and professionals.
• Review and screen resumes, credentials, and candidates for skills, experience, and knowledge in relation to position requirements while complying with EEO and OFCCP federal regulations.
• Schedule interviews and provide other support including generating staffing reports and updating resource databases as needed to the resource manager.  
• Work closely with the resource manager as a team to provide a seamless hiring and on-boarding experience for CADRE staff including conducting background investigations, generating offer letters to potential Dewberry disaster personnel, as well as distributing and collecting new hire paperwork when necessary.
• Assist with the development of job descriptions if needed and create and post all open requisitions through our ATS.
• Advise and consult resource and deployment managers throughout the hiring process to help identify the top candidates while ensuring compliance with the HR policies and procedures.
• Provide regular status reports to the resource Manager and ensure that candidate tracking is up-to-date and compliant in the Applicant Tracking System.
• Willingness to work Overtime as needed to support disaster deployments. 

Required Skills & Experience:

• A BA or a BS degree.
• 5 years of experience in an HR confidential-support role is preferred.
• Experience recruiting in a Disaster Recovery professional firm is preferred.
• Ability to thrive, and preference for, dynamic, fast paced and high growth environments.
• Ability to build and implement successful, creative approaches to talent acquisition.
• Demonstrated success utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter and other alternative sourcing methods to identify and hire high level positions with niche skill sets.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Experience with a web-based applicant tracking system, preferably iCIMS.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Service Contract Act (SCA) employment regulations.
• Ability to apply nontraditional sourcing strategies.
• Ability to work in an extremely high-volume, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to build excellent relationships with staff and candidates.
• Possession of excellent negotiating, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must possess strong initiative, attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Goal oriented, motivated, self-starter with a desire to learn and contribute within a team environment.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employee’s. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.