Strategic Workforce Planning

For the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Human Capital Planning and Policy Division, Soyka & Company consolidated local organization-level strategic workforce plans developed by the Agency’s twelve program and administrative offices and ten regional offices into a set of overall findings regarding important occupation and skill gaps agency-wide, as well as effective local level response strategies addressing human capital planning, recruitment, employee development and retention, succession planning, and performance and accountability.  Based upon successful completion of this initial work, we were asked to develop a first-ever comprehensive agency-wide strategic workforce plan for EPA.  Building upon EPA’s strategic drivers, this plan included function-based analyses of demand, supply, and skill and occupation gaps, as well as a collection of strategies for addressing workforce development needs, an implementation plan, and key success factors, performance measures, and milestones.