Senior Higher Education Campus Planner/Designer

• Contribute to business development efforts, including proposals, client interviews, and relationship-building across the higher education and healthcare sector.
• Stay at the forefront of trends and emerging pedagogies.
• Proactively identify and pursue new business opportunities to expand the firm’s planning portfolio.
• Present plans and recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholder groups.
• Advocate for integrated sustainability, resilience, and equity in all planning recommendations.
• Support the advancement of NBBJ’s thought leadership through speaking engagements, white papers, and participation in industry forums.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to higher education and healthcare clients, leading the planning process from early engagement through final delivery.
• Collaborate cross practice with NBBJ architects, designers, and strategists to translate client goals into planning insights.

NBBJ is seeking a Senior Higher Education Campus Planner/Designer to join our Campus Planning/Urban Environments Practice. In this role, you will lead transformative campus planning projects for top-tier colleges, universities and healthcare institutions, integrating design thinking with institutional strategy and data analytics.

This opportunity is available in any of our NBBJ locations: Boston, Columbus, Charlotte, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco or Seattle.

This is an opportunity to work within one of the most respected interdisciplinary design firms in the world, where planners, architects, strategists, and researchers collaborate to shape the future of higher education and healthcare. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in large-scale campus planning, planning-level design concepts, a deep understanding of academic environments, ability to guide clients through visioning of long-range planning strategies.

This role requires the individual to be based in the United States.

• Ability to translate client vision into actionable and inspiring spatial strategies and conceive these spatial ideas through hand-drawn or digital plans, diagrams and sketches.
• Travel required (20–30%) to facilitate on-site client workshops, campus assessments, and presentations.
• Proficiency in analog or digital sketching skills.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools or dashboards is a plus.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences and build consensus.
• Proven experience leading campus planning efforts for higher education and healthcare institutions
• Ability to conceptualize ideas at varying scales – from large (campus-wide) to medium (districts) to small (site-specific).
• Bachelor's degree in Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in higher education planning, healthcare and institutional strategy.
• AICP, PLA, AIA or other relevant professional certifications.

The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $120,000 and $145,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.