ECS

Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager

ECS • $130K — $160K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Program Management, Organizational Development, or related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in workforce planning, staffing, or resource management.
  • Experience with large federal government programs or professional-services organizations.
  • Proven ability to manage staffing across multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Strong understanding of resource forecasting and workforce capacity planning.
  • Experience collaborating with program managers and HR teams.
  • Strong analytical skills for managing workforce data.

Responsibilities

  • Lead resource planning and staffing across various programs and projects.
  • Maintain an overview of open positions and staffing needs.
  • Translate customer requirements into workforce needs with program leadership.
  • Coordinate candidate selection and internal mobility.
  • Manage the flexible resource pool and redeploy employees as needed.
  • Develop workforce forecasts based on contract demand and attrition.
  • Monitor capacity and utilization to identify staffing risks.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Flexible work arrangements, including hybrid options.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Support for employee onboarding and offboarding transitions.
Full Job Description
Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to work in our Arlington, VA (Hybrid) office.

ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to support a large, complex federal consulting portfolio. This role will lead workforce planning, staffing coordination, resource forecasting, and talent deployment across multiple projects and capability areas.

The Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager will work closely with program leadership, Delivery Leads, Capability Leads, recruiting, and corporate operations to ensure the portfolio has the right people, skills, and capacity to meet evolving customer requirements.

This individual will serve as the portfolio's central point of coordination for workforce demand, available resources, staffing gaps, and hiring priorities.

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.

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/staffing reviews with program leadership.

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.


Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000

General Description of Benefits

  • 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 effectively in a fast-moving environment where customer requirements and staffing priorities frequently change.

About ECS

ECS is a leading provider of digital solutions and services to the federal government. The company was founded in 2001 by Roy Kapani and has since grown to become a trusted partner to a wide range of government agencies. ECS offers a broad range of services, including cloud computing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. The company has been recognized for its innovative solutions and has won numerous awards, including the AWS Public Sector Partner of the Year award.
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