Equity-Focused Community Needs Assessment Consultant

AlphaX; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

AlphaGov seeks a Human Services Needs Assessment Consultant to assess community needs for a major city and translate evidence, community voice, and service-system analysis into funding priorities and an actionable human-services strategy. This is a remote-first, project-based engagement with travel as required for client work.

The role involves leading assessments, coordinating with stakeholders, and developing actionable reports and recommendations for proposal submissions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading human-services, community-needs, behavioral-health, housing, or related social-impact assessments.
• Strong mixed-methods research, data analysis, community engagement, and report-writing skills.
• Ability to translate needs and findings into equitable funding priorities and implementation recommendations.
• Comfortable as a 1099 / project-based collaborator; remote-first with travel as client work requires.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead a community human-services needs assessment across priority populations and service areas.
• Collect and analyze demographic, socioeconomic, utilization, outcomes, and community-feedback data.
• Engage residents, providers, community-based organizations, funders, and public agencies through interviews, focus groups, and workshops.
• Map service capacity, gaps, barriers, and equity considerations across the local human-services system.
• Develop prioritized funding recommendations, implementation options, and decision-ready reports and presentations.
• Contribute specialist qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when permissioned.

Skills

Community needs assessment

Mixed-methods research

Data analysis

Report writing

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

AlphaGov seeks a Human Services Needs Assessment Consultant to assess community needs for a major city and translate evidence, community voice, and service-system analysis into funding priorities and an actionable human-services strategy. This is a remote-first, project-based engagement with travel as required for client work.

The role involves leading assessments, coordinating with stakeholders, and developing actionable reports and recommendations for proposal submissions.