Human Services Consultant

WIL is seeking a Human Services Consultant to lead a community needs assessment for a major city and turn data and community input into human-services funding priorities and strategy.

About the Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL)

The Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) delivers applied research and public-program support for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans human-services planning, emergency management and continuity planning, housing and community development, grant administration technical assistance, research and program evaluation, and applied field operations support.

Learn more: https://wilinstitute.org

We engage experienced practitioners for both full-time employment and project-based contract roles, as applicable to the award and staffing model. Engagements are remote-first with travel as required for partner and field sites. We build ready teams for live grant and sponsored-research pursuits.

This opportunity is contingent upon grant or sponsored-project award and final staffing approval. Permission will be requested before including a candidate's name or resume in a proposal or funding package.

What you'll do

• 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 WIL grant and sponsored-research packages when permissioned

Requirements

• Required
• 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
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires
• Nice to have
• 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