Senior Economic Development Consultant

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🕒 June 29

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AlphaHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Construction • Consulting • Logistics

AlphaHire is an AI-powered talent acquisition and recruitment firm that specializes in fast, subscription-based staffing solutions, primarily for the construction industry. The company combines automated candidate sourcing, AI-driven matching and screening, and dedicated talent partners to accelerate hiring cycles and improve retention, claiming placements typically happen weeks faster than traditional methods. AlphaHire also works with private practices and larger systems, offering vetting, interview support, and flexible pricing models to deliver vetted professionals from technical roles to executive placements.

📋 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 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. • Ability to convert research findings into actionable economic-development recommendations.