Remote ABA Clinic Expansion Consultant (Part-Time)

Alpaca Health, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

Alpaca Health, Inc. is seeking a part-time consultant with proven experience opening and scaling center-based ABA clinics. You will help build Alpaca's clinic-expansion playbook and advise on every step from site selection to utilization.

This is a remote, 1099 engagement offering flexible 5–10 hours per week. You will work with the founding team to design programs, guide licensing and credentialing, equipment choices, and staffing ramp, ensuring financially sustainable center launches across

Qualifications

• You have opened and scaled multiple center-based ABA clinics.
• Experience with real estate, build-out, licensing, credentialing, equipment, staffing, and utilization.
• Understanding ABA reimbursement (Medicaid and commercial) and RBT/BCBA labor dynamics.
• Bonus: BCBA or ABA clinical-ops leadership; multi-state expansion; relationships with ABA-focused healthcare real estate, GC or equipment vendors; comfort with compliance-first arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Help build Alpaca's end-to-end "how to open an ABA center" playbook.
• Advise on market/site selection, lease/LOI and tenant-improvement build-out, and ABA-appropriate floor-plan and room design (including sensory-friendly environments).
• Guide payer credentialing/enrollment and licensing for new locations.
• Advise on equipment and vendor selection (security, cameras, access control) and how Alpaca can standardize and finance it.
• Pressure-test our site-intelligence and in-clinic product ideas.
• Advise on staffing ramp, room utilization, and center-based unit economics, steering us clear of the classic failure modes (expansion outrunning BCBA/RBT hiring; fixed costs meeting reimbursement pressure).
• Over time, coach our provider partners through their own clinic launches.

Skills

Center-based ABA clinics

Clinic expansion

Real estate/site selection

Licensing & credentialing

Staffing ramp & utilization

Payer reimbursement knowledge

Job description

Alpaca Health, Inc. is seeking a part-time consultant with proven experience opening and scaling center-based ABA clinics. You will help build Alpaca's clinic-expansion playbook and advise on every step from site selection to utilization.

This is a remote, 1099 engagement offering flexible 5–10 hours per week. You will work with the founding team to design programs, guide licensing and credentialing, equipment choices, and staffing ramp, ensuring financially sustainable center launches across