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Strategic Planning Consultant - Education

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: AlphaX
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-11-01
Job specializations:
  • Business
    Business Analyst, Corporate Strategy, Change Management
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 140000 - 190000 USD Yearly USD 140000.00 190000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Strategic Planning Consultant - Higher Education
About the role

Alpha Gov is looking for a Higher Education Strategic Planning & Enrollment Strategy Consultant, a college or university strategy expert who has led institution-wide or system-wide strategic plans, state higher-education plans, and enrollment management strategy. This independent consultant role supports public university systems, state higher-education agencies, and colleges.

What you'll do
  • Lead enterprise or system strategic planning for universities and colleges: environmental scan, stakeholder engagement, goals, KPIs and implementation roadmap
  • Support state higher-education plans: governance assessment, policy-lever analysis and performance-management frameworks
  • Run enrollment strategy discovery: funnel and yield analysis, recruitment and retention operations, CRM (e.g., Slate) and process review
  • Facilitate sessions with presidents, cabinets, boards of trustees/regents, faculty senates and students
  • Write the plan and implementation scorecard, and present to governing boards
  • Contribute approach and past-performance narrative to proposals when naming is authorized
Engagement

This is a project-based, remote engagement. It is contingent on contract award and final staffing approval, and no assignment is guaranteed. We will ask your permission before including your name or résumé in any proposal.

Required
  • 8+ years in higher education strategy, institutional planning/effectiveness, or enrollment management, at a leadership or consulting level
  • Led or co-led at least one institution- or system-wide strategic plan through adoption (name the institution, year and your role)
  • Hands-on enrollment management experience (admissions, recruitment, retention, financial aid strategy or enrollment analytics)
  • Strong facilitation with boards and senior leadership; clear written deliverables
  • Comfortable as an independent consultant on a project basis
Nice to have
  • State higher-education commission or system office experience
  • Public university system governance
  • Accreditation or institutional effectiveness experience
  • Healthcare / academic medical center planning
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