[Hiring] Human Services Needs Assessment Consultant @AlphaHire

Role Description

AlphaGov is seeking 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.

• 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

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 service-system findings into equitable funding priorities and implementation recommendations
• Comfortable as a 1099 / project-based collaborator; remote-first with travel as client work requires

Requirements

• Experience with municipal human-services planning, community development, homelessness, behavioral health, or public health
• Familiarity with equity-centered assessment, participatory research, and federal or state funding programs
• Prior work with cities, counties, community-based organizations, or public-sector funders