Workforce Planning Specialist (Hybrid)

About Us

AE Strategies is a management consulting firm that works inside federal agencies to help improve how work gets done. Since 2003, we have supported more than 50 federal agencies by bringing practical, hands-on expertise to complex mission and workforce challenges.

People who thrive here take ownership, follow through, listen first, and focus on helping clients and teammates succeed. We offer meaningful work, early responsibility, a low-ego team culture, competitive compensation, paid healthcare, and 401(k) matching.

The Opportunity

Help shape the future workforce of one of the nation’s leading public health agencies. As the Workforce Planning Specialist, you’ll work alongside senior federal leaders to solve complex workforce challenges, strengthen hiring capability, and build practical workforce planning solutions that directly support mission success. You will be part of a small, experienced consulting team helping the agency build a stronger, more coordinated talent function while supporting active hiring priorities in scientific, clinical, technical, regulatory, data, and mission-critical fields.

The Workforce Planning Specialist will help translate agency mission needs and hiring priorities into practical workforce planning products, recruitment strategies, and implementation materials. The work blends strategic human capital thinking with real execution: workforce analysis, capability planning, organizational design support, talent pipeline strategy, and materials that help leaders make informed decisions.

This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous workforce problems, building usable tools and plans, and seeing strategy connect directly to recruitment operations, stakeholder engagement, dashboards, and long-term agency readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Support workforce planning, strategic recruitment planning, organizational design, human capital analysis, and capability development.
• Analyze current and future workforce demand, critical skill gaps, hiring priorities, succession risks, retirement trends, recruitment barriers, market conditions, and emerging skill needs.
• Develop practical workforce planning outputs such as workforce forecasts, recruitment roadmaps, role grouping recommendations, skills gap analyses, implementation plans, executive briefings, decision papers, action trackers, competency materials, and success profiles.
• Work closely with recruitment operations, data, dashboard, and repository team members so planning outputs inform sourcing strategies, campaign planning, pipeline development, reporting, and transition activities.
• Help create repeatable, well-documented processes and materials that can be sustained by federal personnel over time.

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to the requirements of the government contracts AE Strategies supports.
• Ability to work onsite three (3) days a week in Silver Spring, MD.
• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, public administration, organizational development, industrial-organizational psychology, workforce analytics, or a related field.
• At least ten (10) years of relevant experience in workforce planning, human capital strategy, organizational design, talent management, succession planning, recruitment strategy, or human capital consulting.
• Experience conducting workforce analyses, developing strategic human capital deliverables, preparing executive-level materials, and supporting implementation of human capital initiatives.
• Ability to turn incomplete information into clear, usable products without overcomplicating the solution.
• Strong client-service orientation, sound judgment, and comfort working in an embedded government consulting environment where priorities can shift quickly.
• Practical working style with strong follow-through, clear communication, attention to detail, and willingness to support both strategy and execution.
• Experience in Federal workforce environments, Shared Services environments, public health, scientific, technical, or highly regulated organizations is preferred.

Salary Range: $130,000 - $145,000 per year, depending on experience.  

AE Strategies is an equal opportunity employer.