[Hiring] Consultant, Physical Clinic Expansion @Alpaca Health

Role Description

We're looking for a consultant who has personally opened and scaled center-based ABA clinics. You'll partner directly with our founding team to build Alpaca's clinic-expansion playbook: how a practice goes from home-based to a thriving physical center, covering:

• Site selection
• Build-out
• Licensing
• Credentialing
• Equipment
• Staffing ramp
• Utilization

This is a part-time, hourly (1099) engagement, roughly 5–10 hours/week, remote.

What you'll do:

• 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.

Qualifications

• You've personally opened and scaled multiple center-based ABA clinics (or very adjacent multi-site pediatric therapy / behavioral health): de novo launches, not just running an existing site.
• You know the full stand-up lifecycle: real estate, build-out, licensing, credentialing, equipment, staffing, and utilization.
• You understand ABA / behavioral-health reimbursement (Medicaid and commercial), staffing ratios, and RBT/BCBA labor dynamics.

Requirements

• Bonus: BCBA or ABA clinical-ops leadership.
• Multi-state expansion experience.
• Relationships with ABA-focused healthcare real estate, general contractors, or equipment vendors.
• Comfort with compliance-first arrangements (fair-market-value, Anti-Kickback/Stark, corporate-practice-of-medicine).

Engagement

• 1099 independent contractor (your own consultancy welcome).
• ~5–10 hours/week, billed hourly. Remote, with optional occasional travel to pilot markets.
• Simple monthly invoicing.

How to apply

Tell us about the centers you've opened: where, how many, and what you learned. A short note plus your LinkedIn or CV is plenty.