Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Workforce Planning & Staffing Manager to work in our Arlington, VA (Hybrid) office.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 

• 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.