Specifications include, but are not limited to: Regional Economic and Community Development Consultant. Have access to extensive database of regional economic and community development initiatives from across the country, including the criteria and variables that characterize and describe such regional economic and community development initiatives. Be able to assess successful and unsuccessful regional economic and community development initiatives from across the country. Be able to assess variables and criteria which characterize both successful and unsuccessful regional economic and community development initiatives. Provide a summary of the variables and criteria that are descriptive of the most successful regional economic development initiatives. Provide a summary of successful regional structures (i.e., how successful regional economic initiatives are designed, organized, and evaluated. Identify for IALR common positive characteristics of successful regional economic and community development initiatives. Identify for IALR common negative characteristics of unsuccessful regional economic and community development initiatives. Identify variables and characteristics that are present in the IALR region. 9. Evaluate which successful and unsuccessful regional economic and community development initiatives are most similar to the IALR region. 10 Identify variables and characteristics that the IALR region needs to focus on improving in order to foster a successful regional economic and community development initiative. 11. Perform comprehensive research of the IALR region to ascertain its key characteristics and how those characteristics relate to consistently successful regional economic development initiatives.
