Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager

ECS; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to join our Arlington, VA hybrid office.

This role leads strategic workforce planning, forecasting, staffing operations, and talent deployment across multiple federal programs with external staffing partners. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in workforce planning or staffing within professional services or federal contracting, strong analytics, and experience with capacity planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, HR, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience supporting workforce planning, staffing, or program operations.
• Experience supporting a large federal government program or professional-services organization.
• Demonstrated experience managing staffing across multiple projects or workstreams.
• Strong understanding of resource forecasting, utilization, and staffing pipelines.
• Experience working with program managers, 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 in a fast-moving environment with changing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio-wide resource planning and staffing across programs, projects, and workstreams.
• Maintain an integrated view of open positions, staffing needs, resources, and anticipated demand.
• Partner with Delivery Leads and program leadership to translate customer requirements into workforce needs.
• Coordinate resource selection, internal mobility, and deployment of personnel.
• Manage and monitor the portfolio’s flexible resource pool and redeploy employees before external hiring.
• Develop workforce forecasts based on contract demand, attrition, growth, and changing customer requirements.
• Monitor capacity and utilization and identify overages or bench risk.
• Lead strategic workforce planning to align talent capacity with growth objectives.
• Develop long-range workforce plans addressing future skill needs and readiness.

Skills

Workforce planning

Staffing management

Capacity planning

Workforce analytics

Vendor management

Federal contracting

Power BI

Excel

PMP/SHRM

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, HR, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Smartsheet

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Description

Everforth ECS is seeking a

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

Required Skills

• 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.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting DHS, CISA, or another federal civilian agency.
• Experience supporting portfolios of 100+ employees.
• Experience with federal contracting environments including task orders, recompetes, transitions, and surge staffing.
• Familiarity with skills-based workforce planning or capability-based resource management.
• Experience with Power BI, Excel, Smartsheet, ServiceNow, or similar workforce-management tools.
• PMP, SHRM, PHR, or workforce-planning certification.

ECS Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

Everforth ECS is the federal segment of Everforth, a $4B global organization with over 10,000 employees. Our nearly 3,500 professionals deliver advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, serving defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies. Our work powers mission-critical outcomes, strengthens technology partnerships, and creates meaningful opportunities for our people. We are defined by a commitment to excellence in delivery, a culture of innovation, and an environment where talent can thrive and grow.

We Value

• Attracting and developing top talent and high-performing teams
• Fostering a culture that is engaging, accountable, and mission-driven

Meet the challenge. Make a difference with Everforth ECS!