Economic Impact Analyst - IMPLAN / Tourism & Regional
About the job
- Five or more years of experience in economic impact, regional economics, or applied input-output modeling for public or quasi-public clients.
- Hands-on IMPLAN or equivalent project delivery that can be cited with the client, the candidate's role, and the year.
- Clear writing that explains multipliers, employment, and value-added without hype.
- Comfort working as a project-based collaborator remotely within the United States, with occasional travel.
- Build and defend economic-impact and contribution studies for tourism, visitor economies, infrastructure, and regional development clients.
- Apply IMPLAN and related input-output or computable general equilibrium tools where appropriate, using transparent assumptions, margins, and leakage treatment.
- Translate model outputs into decision-ready narratives for economic-development agencies, destination marketing organizations, ports, and local governments.
- Pair modeling with labor market information, visitor research, and secondary data so results are useful beyond a single multiplier table.
- Quality-assure peer studies and flag overstated claims before they enter proposals or public reports.
- Present methods and sensitivity cases to non-economist executives and boards.
- Contribute IMPLAN and methods language and named-expert narrative to AlphaGov proposals when permissioned.
- Coordinate with tourism economists and workforce subject-matter experts on multi-part scopes.
- Tourism or visitor-economy, port, or destination marketing organization studies.
- REMI, RIMS II, or custom input-output experience alongside IMPLAN.
- State regulatory or legislative economic-impact filings.
- Prior named key-personnel role on economic-impact proposals.
About the company
AlphaHire provides a workforce intelligence platform for capital-intensive industries such as construction, data centers, energy, and private equity. It uses signals from hundreds of sources across many labor markets to deliver current, decision-ready data on labor availability, compensation trends, and hiring competition, not as a recruiting service. The platform offers structured products—Labor Availability Assessments, Workforce Due Diligence for M&A, Expansion Readiness, and Workforce Risk Monitoring—to support capital decisions. Its goal is to help executives and investors reduce operational risk and improve project cost outcomes through better workforce planning and risk visibility.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
N/A
Founded
2018
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- Founded 2018, AlphaHire sells decision-grade workforce intelligence, not recruiting or staffing.
- Its 2026 Observatory monitors 180 labor markets and 500-plus sources continuously.
- Labor Availability Assessment and Early Warning System frame Go, Conditional, No-Go capital decisions.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Performance Bonus