Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager

ECS Federal•ARLINGTON, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to support a large, complex federal consulting portfolio. This role leads strategic workforce planning, workforce forecasting, staffing operations, resource optimization, and talent deployment across multiple programs and capability areas. It also supports recruiting for the program’s subcontractors. The successful candidate will bring experience in a consulting or professional services environment and a strong understanding of strategic workforce planning, capacity planning, talent optimization, and workforce analytics. The manager works closely with program leadership, Delivery Leads, Capability Leads, recruiting, corporate operations, and external staffing partners to ensure the portfolio has the people, skills, and capacity needed to meet evolving customer requirements in a timely manner. The role serves as the portfolio’s central point of coordination for workforce demand, available resources, staffing gaps, hiring priorities, workforce strategy, and external staffing partnerships. The position is based in Everforth ECS’s Arlington, Virginia office in a hybrid work arrangement. The stated salary range is $130,000–$160,000. A bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least seven years of relevant experience are required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Program Management, Organizational Development, or a related field.
At least 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, including the ability to manage large volumes of workforce information.
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.

Responsibilities

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 personnel deployment.
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 aligned with talent capacity, workforce capabilities, portfolio growth objectives, and evolving customer requirements.
Develop long-range workforce plans addressing future skill needs, succession planning, workforce risks, readiness, and organizational growth.
Maintain a portfolio-wide skills and capability inventory.
Conduct skills-gap assessments and identify needs for 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 on vacancies, hiring pipeline, utilization, skills gaps, and staffing risk.
Facilitate recurring workforce and staffing reviews with program leadership.
Use workforce analytics and planning data to inform staffing strategy, hiring priorities, and capability development initiatives.
Support workforce planning for 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.
Support staffing vendors, subcontractors, and strategic talent partners in meeting workforce requirements.
Coordinate external resource acquisition and vendor-supported staffing 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.