Job Title: Recruitment Consultant (Contract)
Job Type: 3months Contract (potential to extend up to 1 year)
Reason for Opening: Replacement
Location & Work Model - Des Moines, IA 50392
Hybrid work model - Onsite presence required 3+ days per week
 
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Recruitment Consultant (Contract) to support full-cycle hiring across a variety of professional exempt-level and sales-related roles within a financial services environment. This role requires a recruiter who can quickly adapt, operate independently, build strong relationships with hiring leaders, and deliver results in a fast-paced setting.
This position is offered as a contract assignment aligned to quarterly capacity planning cycles, with potential for extensions based on business needs, hiring demand, and performance.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting from intake/kickoff through offer acceptance
• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand role requirements, priorities, and timelines
• Recruit for professional exempt-level roles (e.g., Marketing, Compliance, Risk, HR, Operations) and sales or sales-support roles (e.g., wholesalers, relationship managers, implementation roles)
• Source, screen, and assess candidates using structured interview techniques
• Build and maintain pipelines of active and passive candidates
• Deliver a consistent, high-quality candidate experience
• Utilize recruiting tools and systems including iCIMS (ATS) and LinkedIn Recruiter
• Navigate new tools, processes, and stakeholders with minimal ramp-up time
• Maintain professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality at all times

 
Qualifications – Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience (corporate recruiting preferred)
• Demonstrated experience recruiting for professional exempt-level and sales-related roles
• Experience recruiting across multiple functions and job families
• Strong stakeholder partnership, communication, and influencing skills
• Ability to work with urgency, manage competing priorities, and maintain attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and make immediate contributions
• High level of professionalism and confidentiality
• ATS experience required (iCIMS strongly preferred)

 
What Could Make You Stand Out

• Experience recruiting within a corporate and/or financial services environment
• Experience supporting both professional exempt and sales hiring across diverse business areas
• Experience conducting structured interviews
• Familiarity with pre-recorded interview tools (HireVue preferred)
• Proven success sourcing passive talent using LinkedIn Recruiter and CRM tools

 
Contract Details

• Contract assignments are aligned to quarterly capacity planning cycles
• Continuation and extensions are reviewed quarterly based on performance, business needs, and hiring demand
• While the initial term is quarterly, contracts may extend one year or longer depending on ongoing requirements

 
  
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 30.00/hr.