Senior Economic Development Consultant

2 months ago
Senior
Operations
AlphaHire

AlphaHire

AlphaHire specializes in utilizing advanced AI technology to streamline the recruitment process by analyzing extensive data points to efficiently match candidates with job requirements, thereby enhancing the overall hiring experience.

Professional Services

Description

  • Lead or support economic-development strategy and implementation projects.
  • Conduct regional economic, industry, labor-market, and demographic analyses.
  • Assess community and regional readiness for business attraction, expansion, and retention.
  • Evaluate industrial and commercial sites for infrastructure, workforce, transportation, utility, zoning, and development readiness.
  • Develop site-readiness and expansion-readiness frameworks.
  • Identify target industries based on regional assets, workforce capabilities, supply chains, and market conditions.
  • Conduct stakeholder interviews and facilitate sessions with employers, government agencies, utilities, educational institutions, and community partners.
  • Develop recommendations related to infrastructure, workforce, incentives, permitting, business climate, and regional competitiveness.
  • Support EDA-funded planning, implementation, and technical-assistance projects.
  • Prepare reports, implementation roadmaps, presentations, and executive summaries.
  • Contribute technical narratives, methodologies, work plans, and qualifications to government proposals.
  • Present findings to public officials, boards, economic-development organizations, and community stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Seven or more years of experience in economic development, regional planning, site selection, or business attraction and retention.
  • Experience working with government agencies, economic-development organizations, or regional planning entities.
  • Demonstrated experience with site-readiness, expansion-readiness, or economic-development strategy projects.
  • Strong understanding of business-location factors, including workforce, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, real estate, and permitting.
  • Experience analyzing economic, demographic, industry, and labor-market data.
  • Strong stakeholder-engagement, facilitation, report-writing, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to convert research findings into actionable economic-development recommendations.

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