Program Lead

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Corporate Services is seeking a Program Lead to manage a Department of War network from our Northern Virginia location. The role requires directing high-performing, multidisciplinary teams, aligning priorities, and delivering program objectives with accountability to customers and leadership.

Candidate must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI clearance and demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and communicate effectively.

Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen with active TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams with ability to motivate and drive performance.
• Strong leadership, coaching, feedback and accountability for program delivery.
• Experience with workforce planning, staffing, and resource allocation.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with customers and senior leadership.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop teams, set expectations, provide coaching and feedback.
• Manage staffing, resources, onboarding, workforce planning and succession planning.
• Translate program priorities into actionable goals and coordinate work across teams.
• Maintain accountability, monitor performance, and address issues constructively.
• Strengthen communication and collaboration across team members and stakeholders.
• Represent the team to customers and leadership, communicate priorities and risks.
• Oversee schedules, deliverables, budgets, risks, and compliance while empowering execution.
• Build organizational capability by improving structures and developing future leaders.

Skills

People leadership

Communication

Coaching

Conflict resolution

Organizational skills

Stakeholder management

Job description

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.

Requirements

• 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.