Economic Impact Analyst

AlphaX; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaGov is assembling a bench of economic impact analysts for city, county, port, tourism, and economic development studies. You will quantify jobs, income, output, and tax effects of public investments using IMPLAN, REMI, or RIMS II.

This is a remote-first role with occasional client travel, and you may be named as expert collaborator on proposals that match your expertise. You will confirm scope, schedule, and fee with clients before engagements begin, and you will work on live pursuits—not

Qualifications

• At least 5 years preparing economic or fiscal impact studies for public agencies, ports, tourism bodies, or economic development organizations.
• Hands-on experience with IMPLAN, REMI, or RIMS II.
• Strong data analysis and report writing skills.
• Comfortable as a 1099 project-based consultant.

Responsibilities

• Build economic and fiscal impact models using IMPLAN, REMI, or RIMS II.
• Collect and clean local spending, visitor, payroll, and construction data.
• Estimate direct, indirect, and induced effects on jobs, labor income, output, and tax revenue.
• Prepare tourism and visitor spending analyses and event or facility impact studies.
• Write clear reports, summaries, and charts for elected officials and the public.
• Present findings to councils, boards, and stakeholder groups.
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when you authorize naming.

Skills

Data analysis

Report writing

Public sector consulting

Communication

Project-based work

Education

Degree in economics/regional science/public policy

Tools

IMPLAN

REMI

RIMS II

Job description

AlphaGov delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel. When you authorize it, AlphaGov may name you as an expert collaborator or key personnel on proposals that match your expertise. We build ready teams for live pursuits - not speculative staffing banks.

AlphaGov is building a bench of economic impact analysts for city, county, port, tourism, and economic development agency studies. You would quantify the jobs, income, output, and tax effects of public investments, facilities, events, and industries using input-output models.

We confirm scope, schedule, and fee with you before any engagement begins.

What you'll do

• Build economic and fiscal impact models using IMPLAN, REMI, or RIMS II
• Collect and clean local spending, visitor, payroll, and construction cost data
• Estimate direct, indirect, and induced effects on jobs, labor income, output, and tax revenue
• Prepare tourism and visitor spending analyses and event or facility impact studies
• Write clear reports, summaries, and charts for elected officials and the public
• Present findings to councils, boards, and stakeholder groups
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when you authorize naming

Required

• At least 5 years preparing economic or fiscal impact studies for public agencies, ports, tourism bodies, or economic development organizations
• Hands-on experience with IMPLAN, REMI, or RIMS II
• Strong data analysis and report writing skills
• Comfortable as a 1099 project-based consultant

Nice to have

• Tourism, visitor economy, or destination marketing research
• Cost-benefit or return-on-investment analysis for public projects
• Degree in economics, regional science, or public policy