Strategic Planning Consultancy Services

The Vendor is required to provide strategic planning facilitation services.
- This process builds deliberately on substantial institutional pre-work and is not a blank-slate exercise. Consultants should be prepared to honor existing momentum while bringing rigorous facilitation methodology to move the College confidently into its next chapter.
- The scope has been deliberately calibrated to a budget of $100,000–$125,000 and is designed to deploy consultant resources where they provide the highest value: skilled facilitation of internal and external stakeholder processes, synthesis of existing data into actionable strategic insight, and collaborative plan drafting.
- Identify key strategic drivers, emerging challenges, and opportunities most relevant to the College’s next planning cycle, based on materials provided.
- Review and synthesize existing institutional data provided by the College, including ATD and Aspen datasets, Lightcast labor market analysis, and other relevant documents.
- Students: The consultant will design a structured survey instrument and facilitation guide for student focus groups; survey administration and focus group logistics will be managed by college institutional research (IR) staff. The consultant will analyze results and incorporate findings.
- Plan Development & Drafting
• Collaborate with the strategic planning team to translate data and stakeholder input into a proposed plan architecture, including a compelling north star, three to five bold multi-year goals, and measurable outcomes and metrics.
• Support the drafting, iterative review, and refinement of the multi-year strategic plan document.
• Ensure the plan reflects authentic institutional voice and avoids generic or template-driven language.
• Facilitate a campus consultation process to validate the draft plan with the broader college community prior to board adoption. The college’s internal team manages logistics, and the consultant provides facilitation guidance and synthesizes feedback.
- Develop a goal architecture document that connects each strategic goal to proposed key performance indicators (KPIs), responsible parties, and annual review prompts.
- The engagement design must capture candid perspectives from these groups and actively bridge those insights into a framework for productive, collaborative pathways.
- Must address directly how the consultant will create conditions for genuine engagement, capturing and documenting critical perspectives to ensure they are represented in the planning documents and data.