Program Lead

ECS is seeking a Program Lead to work in our Northern VA office.

Everforth ECS has an immediate opening for a Program Lead for a Department of War (DoW) network located in a contractor facility.

The Program Lead is responsible for leading, developing, and coordinating high-performing teams to successfully deliver program objectives. This role provides day-to-day leadership across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring team members understand priorities, have the resources and support needed to succeed, and remain aligned around customer and organizational goals.

The Program Lead serves as the connection point between team members, customers, functional leadership, and senior management. Candidate must have strong people leadership, communication, coaching, conflict resolution, and organizational skills, combined with the ability to maintain accountability for program delivery.

Primary Duties:

• Lead and develop teams: Set clear expectations, provide coaching and feedback, manage performance, and foster employee growth and engagement.
• Manage staffing and resources: Align skills and capacity with program needs; support recruiting, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning.
• Drive team execution: Translate program priorities into actionable goals, coordinate work across teams, track commitments, and remove barriers to delivery.
• Build accountability: Establish ownership for results, monitor performance, recognize strong contributions, and address performance issues constructively.
• Strengthen communication and collaboration: Maintain effective team operating rhythms, facilitate open communication, and resolve conflicts across individuals and teams.
• Manage customers and stakeholders: Represent the team to customers and leadership, communicate priorities and risks, manage expectations, and advocate for necessary resources.
• Ensure program performance: Oversee schedules, deliverables, staffing, budgets, risks, quality, and compliance while empowering team members to own execution.
• Build organizational capability: Improve team structures and processes, develop future leaders, identify skill gaps, and prepare the workforce to support program and organizational growth.