Strategic Planning Consultant Service
Location:
California, United States
Posted on:
Feb 20, 2026
Deadline:
Mar 13, 2026
Summary:
Seeking a consultant to facilitate a strategic planning process clarifying mission, aligning leadership, and supporting sustainable growth for a California agency.
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Vendor needs to provide strategic planning consultant service. – Design and facilitate a thoughtful, inclusive, and practical strategic planning process. The purpose of this engagement is to: • Clarify agency’s mission, vision, values, and strategic direction for the next 3–5 years in this current political and community context • Align staff, leadership, and board around a shared roadmap that is collectively understood, owned, and spoken — not held by one person • Support a transition from reactive crisis response toward sustainable, values–aligned growth while preserving Organization’s deep community roots • Produce a strategic plan that is actionable, realistic, adaptive to external change, and actively used to guide decision–making • Design an inclusive planning process tailored to Organization’s size, culture, and capacity, including any necessary pre–work to build trust, shared understanding, and psychological safety among staff and leadership • Build from (and not duplicate) the existing Organizational Strengthening Plan • Explicitly account for internal dynamics, differing perspectives, and “inherited organizational inefficiencies and complexities“ history among staff and board members • Support Organization in refreshing or clarifying its mission and vision • Identify 3–5 strategic priorities for the next 3–5 years • Help the organization articulate what it will continue, grow, stop, or release.
