Senior Economic Development Consultant

AlphaHire

Senior Economic Development Consultant supporting regional economic-development and strategic-planning engagements for public agencies and organizations. Evaluating sites and developing strategies for attracting employers.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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. 🎯 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools

Economic AnalysisDemographic AnalysisIndustry AnalysisLabor-Market AnalysisSite SelectionBusiness AttractionBusiness RetentionInfrastructure EvaluationDevelopment ReadinessMarket Condition Assessment

Soft Skills

Facilitation SkillsPresentation Skills