Recruitment and Outreach Specialist
On-site · Durham, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Recruitment and Outreach Specialist to support NOS’s Workforce Management Division by developing and executing outreach and recruitment strategies for administrative, professional, technical, and STEM roles. Responsibilities include talent strategy and workforce planning, recruitment messaging and professional social media support, educational organization and events outreach, candidate engagement and pipeline development, and process mapping of outreach workflows. The role emphasizes coordinating messaging for posted roles, building recruiting tools and repositories, collaborating with internal stakeholders, supporting internships and early-career programs, and using data to refine engagement and outcomes. The position requires experience in talent acquisition, outreach operations, university relations, and leveraging professional networks and CRM/ATS tools; strong written/verbal communication, organization, and ability to work in a federal contractor environment; occasional travel to events; and eligibility for a low-risk background investigation.
Required Qualifications
- Experience recruiting, sourcing, or supporting recruitment outreach for administrative, professional, technical, scientific, or STEM-related roles.
- Experience developing recruitment messaging, outreach communications, candidate emails, professional social media posts, or role announcement content.
- Experience building relationships with candidates, schools, professional organizations, workforce partners, or external talent networks.
- Experience using LinkedIn or other professional social media platforms to identify prospective candidates, promote opportunities, or support talent outreach.
- Experience using a CRM, applicant tracking system, spreadsheet-based tracker, or similar tool to manage candidate, stakeholder, or outreach interactions.
- Experience supporting recruiting events, career fairs, information sessions, university relations, or professional association outreach.
- Experience documenting or improving recruiting, outreach, candidate engagement, event coordination, communications, or talent pipeline workflows through process maps, checklists, SOPs, templates, or similar tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft clear outreach messages, reports, summaries, and process documentation.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, stakeholders, and follow-up actions.
- Ability to analyze recruiting or outreach data and present findings in a clear, practical format.
- Ability to work professionally in a federal contractor support environment with government and contractor stakeholders.
- Ability to acquire and maintain a low-risk background investigation.
- Ability to travel occasionally to recruiting events, job fairs, conferences, or stakeholder meetings, as approved.
- Preferred Qualifications include federal recruiting experience, familiarity with federal hiring pathways, and proficiency with analytics and reporting tools.
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