Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AlphaX is seeking a Senior Economic Development Consultant to support regional economic-development and strategic-planning engagements. The consultant will assist clients in assessing their competitive position and developing strategies for attracting and retaining employers.

Responsibilities

• 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 clear 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

Skills

• 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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