Human Resources and Recruiting Specialist
Description Built on Integrity. Ready for the Mission. At Tamayo Federal Solutions (TFS), we believe great missions are accomplished by great people—not just the most experienced, but those with the right mindset, integrity, and drive to grow. As an SBA-certified 8(a), Woman-Owned Small Business, TFS delivers high-impact, mission-focused solutions for federal customers nationwide. We are seeking motivated professionals who are ready to grow with us.
Your Mission TFS is seeking a Human Resources and Recruiting Specialist to support two core priorities: full-cycle recruiting and day-to-day human resources administration. This role also contributes to personnel security, compliance, contract administration, invoicing, process documentation, and other corporate operations as business needs evolve. The successful candidate will move comfortably between detailed execution, independent research, employee support, and cross-functional collaboration in a growing federal contracting environment.
What You’ll Do In this role, you will: · Manage full-cycle recruiting for funded openings, competitive staffing requirements, and proposal or contingent staffing needs. · Develop accurate job descriptions by interpreting labor categories, scopes of work, contract requirements, market research, and hiring-manager input. · Post positions, review applications, conduct candidate outreach, complete pre-screening and interviewing, assess qualifications and fit, coordinate interviews and approvals, and maintain organized candidate records.
· Build and maintain reusable talent pipelines for recurring labor categories and anticipated contract opportunities. · Coordinate onboarding and orientation, maintain accurate employee and applicant records, and support human resources processes throughout the employee lifecycle. · Provide responsive, professional support to employees working at corporate, customer, and geographically dispersed locations.
· Maintain and expand effective use of Paylocity and Microsoft 365 tools, including applicant tracking, onboarding workflows, templates, reminders, reporting, skills information, data imports and exports, and process automation. · Assist with personnel-security and compliance activities, protect sensitive company and employee information, and support applicable Controlled Unclassified Information and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements.
· Complete the applicable Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE) Facility Security Officer (FSO) curriculum and obtain the certificate of successful completion within six months of hire to support assigned personnel-security and facility-security responsibilities. · Support contract tracking, invoicing, records management, audit readiness, scheduling, meeting coordination, and other administrative and operational priorities.
· Document and refine procedures, identify gaps and efficiencies, develop practical solutions when processes are not fully defined, track progress, and communicate effectively with stakeholders. · Support implementation of the Entrepreneurial Operating System and related change-management, internal communication, and continuous-improvement activities. · Partner with company leadership, operations, growth, hiring managers, fractional service partners, and other stakeholders.
· Balance multiple priorities, take ownership, meet deadlines, follow through, apply feedback, and work independently while maintaining collaboration and transparency. What Success Looks Like in This Role Success in this position means delivering accurate, timely, and mission-ready recruiting, human resources, security, compliance, and operational support while demonstrating professionalism, accountability, sound judgment, and collaboration.
The successful candidate will: · Support funded and proposal recruiting needs with well-researched job descriptions, timely candidate outreach, thorough screening, and organized follow-through. · Provide candidates and e