Strategic Planning Consultant - Water & Wastewater Utilities

AlphaX; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaGov is seeking a Strategic Planning Consultant to lead a multi-year strategic plan for a water and wastewater utility. You will facilitate planning sessions, assess priorities, and write an actionable plan linking long-term goals with day-to-day execution.

You will guide discussions with utility leadership and staff, resolve conflicting priorities, and deliver measurable objectives, roadmaps, and performance measures.

Qualifications

• Direct experience leading strategic planning engagements for water or wastewater utilities.
• Ability to facilitate discussions and build agreement among stakeholders with differing priorities.
• Understand operational, infrastructure, financial, and workforce challenges facing public utilities.
• Translate input and evidence into a clear, practical written plan.

Responsibilities

• Review existing plans, performance measures, and financial documents.
• Interview leadership and stakeholders to identify challenges and priorities.
• Design and facilitate strategic planning workshops with leadership and staff.
• Help establish priorities across reliability, infrastructure, finance, and workforce.
• Write the plan with goals, objectives, initiatives, and measures.
• Develop an implementation roadmap with responsibilities and timelines.
• Present the plan and incorporate feedback into final deliverables.

Skills

Strategic planning

Facilitation

Stakeholder alignment

Roadmap development

Public utility understanding

Job description

AlphaGov is seeking a Strategic Planning Consultant to lead the development of a multi-year strategic plan for a water and wastewater utility. You will facilitate planning sessions, assess organizational priorities, and write an actionable plan that connects the utility's long-term goals with day-to-day execution. This engagement requires someone who can guide productive discussions with utility leaders and staff, resolve competing priorities, and turn those discussions into clear decisions, responsibilities, and measurable objectives.

What you'll do

• Review existing plans, organizational information, performance measures, and relevant operational and financial documents.
• Interview utility leadership and key stakeholders to understand challenges, priorities, and service expectations.
• Design and facilitate strategic planning workshops with leadership, staff, and governing officials as appropriate.
• Help establish priorities across service reliability, infrastructure investment, financial sustainability, workforce capacity, and customer service.
• Write the strategic plan, including goals, objectives, initiatives, and performance measures.
• Develop an implementation roadmap with assigned responsibilities, timelines, and a process for tracking progress.
• Present the plan and incorporate feedback into the final deliverables.

Requirements

• Direct experience leading strategic planning engagements for water or wastewater utilities.
• Strong facilitation skills, including experience building agreement among stakeholders with different priorities.
• Understanding of the operational, infrastructure, financial, and workforce challenges facing public utilities.
• Ability to translate stakeholder input and supporting evidence into a clear, practical written plan.
• Experience developing implementation roadmaps and performance measures that utility staff can maintain.

Experience presenting strategic plans to utility boards, city councils, or other governing bodies is preferred.