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Director of Human Resources
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Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.
Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join our team.
Barbaricum is seeking a highly experienced Director of Human Resources to lead and scale our HR function in support of a growing government contracting organization of approximately 200 employees. This leader will be responsible for HR strategy and execution across talent acquisition support, employee relations, compliance, performance management, benefits, and HR operations.
The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in government contracting environments, with experience supporting cleared personnel, managing HR compliance requirements, and serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.
Responsibilities:
HR Leadership & Strategy
- Serve as the senior HR leader for Barbaricum, providing strategic guidance to executive leadership.
- Build and execute HR policies, procedures, and programs that support growth, retention, and performance.
- Develop HR metrics and reporting to support decision-making (turnover, hiring velocity, performance trends, etc.).
Compliance & Risk Management
- Ensure compliance with all applicable federal and state employment laws and regulations.
- Support government contracting compliance requirements (FAR/DFARS awareness preferred).
- Maintain HR documentation practices aligned with audit-readiness and best practices.
- Oversee employee investigations, corrective actions, and terminations in a legally compliant manner.
Employee Relations & Culture
- Serve as a primary point of contact for employee relations matters and conflict resolution.
- Lead employee engagement initiatives and drive a culture of accountability, professionalism, and mission focus.
- Partner with leadership to strengthen performance management and professional development programs.
Talent Acquisition Support
- Partner with recruiting teams and hiring managers to improve hiring processes and candidate experience.
- Support hiring strategies for cleared and specialized technical personnel.
- Assist in workforce planning, retention strategies, and organizational design.
Compensation, Benefits & HR Operations
- Manage job classifications, and salary benchmarking.
- Oversee benefits programs and vendor relationships for benefits.
- Own HRIS systems, onboarding/offboarding processes, and employee records management.
- Lead annual performance review cycles.
Team Development & HR Infrastructure
- Lead and develop scalable HR support.
- Create and refine SOPs, handbooks, and internal HR training for managers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience
- 3+ years in HR leadership (Director).
- Demonstrated experience leading HR programs across compliance, employee relations, and HR operations.
- Strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practices.
- Proven ability to advise senior leaders and influence decision-making.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a government contracting (GovCon) environment strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with cleared workforces and supporting contracts with federal agencies.
- Experience supporting rapid growth organizations (100–500 employees).
- SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or similar certification preferred.
- Experience with HRIS platforms
Key Competencies
- Executive presence and strong business judgment
- Strong communication and conflict resolution skills
- High attention to compliance and documentation
- Ability to build scalable HR systems and processes
- Data-driven and process-oriented
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment
EEO Commitment
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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Recruiting Manager
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Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.
Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join our team.
Barbaricum is seeking a Recruiting Manager with a proven track record of leading full-cycle recruiting efforts for cleared, highly technical talent supporting Defense and Intelligence Community programs. This role moves beyond execution into strategic talent leadership, ensuring recruiting operations are aligned with business priorities, contract delivery, and long-term growth.
The Recruiting Manager will serve as a trusted partner to business leaders, driving workforce planning, enhancing recruiting capabilities, and ensuring Barbaricum remains competitive in a highly constrained talent market. This individual will oversee recruiting strategy, optimize processes, and contribute to both program execution and business development efforts.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Talent Leadership
- Align recruiting strategy with business objectives, contract requirements, and growth priorities across strategic business units
- Partner with senior leaders to forecast workforce needs and develop proactive talent pipelines for cleared and technical roles
- Translate business development priorities into actionable recruiting strategies to support capture and proposal efforts
Recruiting Operations & Execution
- Lead and execute full-cycle recruiting for cleared positions across Intelligence, IT, Data Science, and related disciplines
- Drive improvements in recruiting processes, tools, and workflows to enhance speed, quality, and candidate experience
- Ensure consistent, compliant, and scalable recruiting practices aligned with federal contracting requirements
Team & Stakeholder Leadership
- Serve as a mentor and resource to recruiters (if applicable), helping elevate technical recruiting capability and consistency
- Act as a primary liaison between recruiting, hiring managers, and program leadership to ensure alignment and accountability
- Influence hiring decisions through market insight, candidate evaluation, and compensation guidance
Data, Metrics & Continuous Improvement
- Track and analyze key recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, quality of hire, pipeline health, source effectiveness)
- Use data-driven insights to inform decision-making and continuously optimize recruiting strategies
- Identify risks in talent supply and implement mitigation strategies in competitive markets
Talent Branding & Market Engagement
- Represent Barbaricum at recruiting events, industry forums, and networking engagements
- Strengthen employer branding within cleared and technical communities
- Build and maintain relationships with key talent networks, military transition programs, and industry partners
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree required
- 5+ years of progressive recruiting experience, including experience in cleared technical recruiting
- Experience in a government contracting (GovCon) environment strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced, growth oriented federal contracting environment
EEO Commitment
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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Senior Proposal Manager
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Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.
Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join our team.
Barbaricum is seeking a highly motivated, resourceful, team-focused Proposal Manager to join our team. This individual will lead proposal teams in support of growth across all company sectors. This position will report directly to the Chief Growth Officer and will be responsible for collaboration with program, BD, solutions, pricing, and functional personnel to provide proposal leadership as part of a proposal leadership team with the Solution Architect, Capture Manager, and senior business leadership.
The desired outcome is the development of well-articulated, compliant, and compelling value propositions for proposal development. This is a unique, multifaceted role working with business leaders across Barbaricum. Exceptional communication, organizational, and strategic-thinking skills are vital to this position.
Responsibilities:
- Lead proposal efforts of various complexity ($20M and above) across all sectors.
- Lead the development of Proposal Management Plans.
- Support the development of proposal strategies and win themes.
- Analyze RFP/bid requirements to develop annotated proposal outlines.
- Build the proposal compliance matrices and track fulfillment of all requirements.
- Conduct proposal progress status meetings and develop and maintain proposal schedule.
- Lead writing/editing/rewriting efforts.
- Lead Color Team Reviews and track recovery.
- Work with Volume Leaders to ensure inter-volume compatibility.
- Collaborate and coordinate with members of the BD/Growth team to track opportunities and provide market research.
- Support the development of training materials, presentations and white papers.
- Provide writing and editing support to ensure use of active voice.
- Work with the CGO to establish a well-organized proposal process as well as a structured repository for data to optimize the proposal process to reduce cycles and increase PWIN.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience as a proposal manager leading deals of $20+ million in a government contracting environment.
- 5+ years of proposal management experience that encompasses leading large internal and external teams with complex Federal Government submissions through the full proposal lifecycle.
- Understanding of the procurement process for civilian or defense agencies and compliant proposal production.
- Teammate who is looking for long-term company growth to build their management skills and develop business development savvy.
- Excellent planning and scheduling, time management and organization skills with the ability to spearhead proposal efforts and work independently to meet dynamic timelines.
- Strong technical writing skills and willingness to develop content for various proposal volumes.
- Strong verbal communication skills, including editing skills.
- Experience conducting market research using GovWinIQ, eBuy, Sam.gov, FPDS, and others Internet-based applications.
- Lead teams using Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) and/or Shipley best-practices.
- Lead knowledge management process for proposals.
- Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, high-growth, and entrepreneurial environment.
- Advanced knowledge in the use of content development tools including Microsoft Office, and Adobe products.
- Understanding of CRM tools and MS SharePoint.
- Flexibility and willingness to adjust to shifting priorities and be involved in Bid/No Bid decisions.
- At times, have the ability to work non-traditional hours/weekends to meet proposal deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) and/or Shipley certification.
- Experience with GSA FEDSIM proposals.
EEO Commitment
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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