ECS is seeking a Program Lead to work in our Northern VA office.
Everforth ECS has an immediate opening for a Program Lead for a Department of War (DoW) network located in a contractor facility.
The Program Lead is responsible for leading, developing, and coordinating high-performing teams to successfully deliver program objectives. This role provides day-to-day leadership across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring team members understand priorities, have the resources and support needed to succeed, and remain aligned around customer and organizational goals.
The Program Lead serves as the connection point between team members, customers, functional leadership, and senior management. Candidate must have strong people leadership, communication, coaching, conflict resolution, and organizational skills, combined with the ability to maintain accountability for program delivery.
Primary Duties:
- Lead and develop teams: Set clear expectations, provide coaching and feedback, manage performance, and foster employee growth and engagement.
- Manage staffing and resources: Align skills and capacity with program needs; support recruiting, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning.
- Drive team execution: Translate program priorities into actionable goals, coordinate work across teams, track commitments, and remove barriers to delivery.
- Build accountability: Establish ownership for results, monitor performance, recognize strong contributions, and address performance issues constructively.
- Strengthen communication and collaboration: Maintain effective team operating rhythms, facilitate open communication, and resolve conflicts across individuals and teams.
- Manage customers and stakeholders: Represent the team to customers and leadership, communicate priorities and risks, manage expectations, and advocate for necessary resources.
- Ensure program performance: Oversee schedules, deliverables, staffing, budgets, risks, quality, and compliance while empowering team members to own execution.
- Build organizational capability: Improve team structures and processes, develop future leaders, identify skill gaps, and prepare the workforce to support program and organizational growth.
- Must be a US Citizen and have an active TS/SCI clearance.
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams, with the ability to motivate employees and drive team performance.
- Strong people management and leadership skills, including setting expectations, coaching, providing feedback, and managing employee performance.
- Experience with workforce planning and resource management, including staffing, workload balancing, prioritization, and resource allocation.
- Proven ability to develop employees, identify growth opportunities, and build team capabilities.
- Strong program and project management skills, including managing schedules, deliverables, risks, dependencies, resources, and performance objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to establish accountability and ownership across teams and drive commitments through completion.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with employees, customers, and senior leadership.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build trusted relationships, manage expectations, and balance competing priorities.
- Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify issues, evaluate options, and remove barriers to team success.
- Strong conflict-resolution skills and the ability to facilitate difficult conversations and resolve issues constructively.
- Ability to effectively lead teams through change, growth, and ambiguity while maintaining employee engagement and focus on organizational objectives.
- Ability to balance employee needs, customer expectations, and program priorities while maintaining a high level of team performance.
Skills Required
- Must be a US Citizen
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
- Experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams
- People management and leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, and performance management
- Workforce planning and resource management experience
- Employee development and team capability-building experience
- Program and project management skills
- Ability to establish accountability and drive commitments through completion
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Conflict-resolution skills
- Ability to lead teams through change, growth, and ambiguity
- Ability to balance employee needs, customer expectations, and program priorities
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
