Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to work in our Arlington, VA (Hybrid) office.
Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to support a large, complex federal consulting portfolio. This role will lead strategic workforce planning, workforce forecasting, staffing operations, resource optimization, and talent deployment across multiple programs and capability areas. The role will also act as the recruiting arm for the program’s subcontractors.
The successful candidate will bring experience operating within a consulting or professional services environment and possess a strong understanding of strategic workforce planning, capacity planning, talent optimization, and workforce analytics to support evolving customer and business requirements.
The Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager will work closely with program leadership, Delivery Leads, Capability Leads, recruiting, corporate operations, and external staffing partners to ensure the portfolio has the right people, skills, and capacity to meet evolving customer requirements, in a timely manner.
This individual will serve as the portfolio’s central point of coordination for workforce demand, available resources, staffing gaps, hiring priorities, workforce strategy, and external staffing partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
Workforce Planning, Forecasting & Reporting
- Lead portfolio-wide resource planning and staffing across programs, projects, and workstreams.
- Maintain an integrated view of open positions, staffing needs, available resources, and anticipated demand.
- Partner with Delivery Leads and program leadership to translate customer requirements into workforce needs.
- Coordinate resource selection, candidate matching, internal mobility, and deployment of personnel.
- Manage and monitor the portfolio’s flexible resource pool and identify opportunities to redeploy employees before external hiring.
- Develop workforce forecasts based on anticipated contract demand, attrition, growth, and changing customer requirements.
- Monitor capacity and utilization and identify potential overages, shortages, or bench risk.
- Lead strategic workforce planning efforts to align talent capacity, workforce capabilities, and staffing strategies with portfolio growth objectives and evolving customer requirements.
- Develop long-range workforce plans that address future skill needs, succession planning, workforce risks, workforce readiness, and organizational growth.
Skills & Capability Management
- Maintain portfolio-wide skills and capability inventory.
- Conduct skills-gap assessments and identify areas requiring recruiting, training, or workforce development.
- Partner with Capability Leads to understand emerging technical and mission skill requirements.
- Track staffing actions from identification through placement and onboarding.
- Maintain workforce dashboards and reporting, including vacancies, hiring pipeline, utilization, skills gaps, and staffing risk.
- Facilitate recurring workforce and staffing reviews with program leadership.
- Utilize workforce analytics and planning data to inform staffing strategy, hiring priorities, and capability development initiatives.
Staffing & Resource Management
- Support workforce planning associated with new task orders, contract growth, transitions, and recompetes.
- Partner with recruiting and HR to establish hiring priorities and improve time-to-fill.
- Identify recurring staffing challenges and recommend process improvements.
- Support workforce succession and continuity planning for critical positions
- Coordinate with the PMO Operations team on employee onboarding and offboarding transitions.
Vendor Management & External Workforce Coordination
- Serve as the recruiting arm/provide support for the staffing vendors, subcontractors, and strategic talent partners to support workforce requirements.
- Coordinate external resource acquisition and vendor-supported staffing efforts to address critical skill gaps and surge requirements.
- Monitor vendor performance and ensure alignment with portfolio staffing objectives, timelines, and quality expectations.
- Collaborate with procurement, recruiting, and program leadership to optimize external workforce partnerships and talent delivery.
Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Program Management, Organizational Development, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience supporting workforce planning, staffing, resource management, program operations, or consulting operations.
- Experience supporting a large federal government program, portfolio, or professional-services organization.
- Demonstrated experience managing staffing across multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of resource forecasting, utilization, workforce capacity planning, and staffing pipelines.
- Experience working with program managers, project leaders, recruiting, and HR organizations.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to manage large volumes of workforce information.
- Experience developing or maintaining workforce dashboards, trackers, or staffing reports.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to operate proactively, effectively, and efficiently in a fast-moving environment where customer requirements and staffing priorities frequently change.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Program Management, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience supporting workforce planning, staffing, resource management, program operations, or consulting operations.
- Experience supporting a large federal government program, portfolio, or professional-services organization.
- Experience managing staffing across multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of resource forecasting, utilization, workforce capacity planning, and staffing pipelines.
- Experience working with program managers, project leaders, recruiting, and HR organizations.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to manage large volumes of workforce information.
- Experience developing or maintaining workforce dashboards, trackers, or staffing reports.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to operate proactively, effectively, and efficiently in a fast-moving environment with changing customer requirements and staffing 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.
