Strategic Workforce Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively engage mission leads and program stakeholders to understand evolving mission requirements and translate them into staffing strategies, role definitions, and skill requirements.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of work performed across the IDIQ program to support workforce planning and execution.
• Anticipate staffing needs, attrition risk, and growth opportunities and develop forward-looking staffing roadmaps.
• Develop, own, and maintain authoritative staffing artifacts, including program footprints/placemats, staffing trackers, and workforce planning templates.
• Produce regular staffing metrics and reports to support leadership decision-making and program oversight.
• Maintain a proactive pipeline of qualified candidates, including a centralized repository of pre-screened internal and subcontractor resumes.
• Ensure timely backfilling of billable positions to minimize operational and revenue impact.
• Coincide interviews with appropriate mission or team leads and ensure candidates are screened against clearly defined mission requirements.
• Engage subcontractors as strategic partners aligned to mission needs and long-term teaming objectives.
• Foster collaborative relationships that support immediate staffing needs and future growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years or more of related experience; Masters and 8 years or more experience; PhD or JD and 5 years or more experience.
• 10+ years of experience in workforce management, staffing strategy, recruiting operations, program operations, or a related field in a mission-driven or complex environment.
• Demonstrated experience engaging senior stakeholders and translating requirements into execution plans.
• Strong analytical skills, including experience developing and maintaining staffing metrics, trackers, and reports.
• Experience working with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and workforce planning tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large IDIQ or mission-critical government programs.
• Experience working in subcontractor-heavy staffing environments.
• Demonstrated success building scalable staffing processes, templates, and reporting mechanisms.
• Experience supporting intelligence or defense customers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills suitable for leadership and client audiences.

Target Salary Range

$120,001 - $160,000.