Urban Designer/Planner

Description

• Participate in mentorship of junior staff and support office-wide studio culture
• Cultivates and maintains strong relationships with clients, consultants, contractors and others during various stages of project development.
• Collaborates with and provides regular updates to the project leaders.
• Prepare clear and cogent client/public presentations.
• Ensures regular and active review of deliverables for compliance with project requirements."
• Engage in new business development, cultivating relationships with consultants, and supporting the provision of exceptional service to clients.
• Actively leads multiple projects and teams.
• Participate in organizational management including team building and staff training, contributing to office culture, strategic planning.
• Develops plans and policies, directs research, and helps provide strategic direction for complex projects
• Support project staffing and manage resources.
• Directs delivery of planning and urban design projects in all phases.
• Facilitates decision making in the public interest
• Ensures adherence to quality and consistency standards for all CDP planning and urban design work products – research, analysis, site planning, design guidelines, renderings and visualization.
• Directly supervises, trains, and mentors team members.
• Creates and drives new ways of working through contributing to the development of services, standards, procedures based in an understanding of the business principles that protect SOM from financial and legal risk.
• Helps elevate project thinking, manage the project team, and oversee project work plans and support practice initiatives.
• Coordinate with project managers to implement on financial management"
• Actively participates in local City Design Practice initiatives and makes substantive contributions to the advancement of activities of the CDP Global Practice. Lead annual awards cycles / applications
• Develops and directs efficient approaches to develop ideas, communicate design intent, and fulfill scope requirements.
• Actively engage in recruitment and retention of key staff; encourage and support individualized professional development of entire studio
• Engages in talent strategy to find specialists, leaders, and future professionals for the firm through resume review, interviews, and leveraging personal network.
• Actively promotes the City Design Practice within home office

Requirements

• Strong verbal, written, and graphic communication skills.
• Experience in successful engagement with client and community and project entitlement.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, Google Suite, and AutoCAD.
• Professional degree in Architecture, Planning, Urban Design, or Landscape Architecture.
• General understanding of sustainable strategies and principles including familiarity with LEED ND or equivalent sustainable community rating systems.
• Experience in the urban design and planning of domestic and international large-scale and complex urban district, campus planning, new communities and/or regional planning projects.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and inspire project teams and manage and provide oversight for project schedule, budget and program.
• Licensed in state of practice or must be AICP or equivalent certification; LEED Accredited preferred.
• Practical understanding of the application of digital tools such as Rhino, Grasshopper, Enscape, etc.
• Established as a officewide resource in an area of expertise for market, discipline, or department.
• Demonstrates leadership in the implementation of sustainable strategies in all project assignments and the associated development of staff knowledge.
• Minimum 10 years of experience or equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities.

Benefits

• Office-wide recognition for contribution and achievement.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance