Strategic Workforce Planner & Staffing Leader

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

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to lead workforce planning, staffing coordination, and talent deployment across a large federal consulting portfolio in Arlington, VA.

The role blends program leadership with analytics to ensure the right people and skills are available to meet evolving customer requirements. Hybrid in Arlington, VA, with collaboration across Delivery Leads, capability leads, recruiting and HR, and program leadership to forecast demand and

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 developing or maintaining workforce dashboards, trackers, or staffing reports.

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 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.

Skills

Workforce planning

Staffing coordination

Forecasting

Resource management

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree (Business Admin, HR, PM, Org Dev)

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to lead workforce planning, staffing coordination, and talent deployment across a large federal consulting portfolio in Arlington, VA.

The role blends program leadership with analytics to ensure the right people and skills are available to meet evolving customer requirements. Hybrid in Arlington, VA, with collaboration across Delivery Leads, capability leads, recruiting and HR, and program leadership to forecast demand and