DLR Group is an integrated design firm that aspires to be the most creative enterprise on the planet. Our brand promise is to elevate the human experience through design. If that challenge is appealing, you’re at the right place. The best integrated design firm in the world has an opening for a Senior Campus Planner. DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.
Locations:
We are looking for individuals that could reside one of the following preferred cities.
Los Angeles, CA Houston, TX Position
Summary:
As part of DLR Group, this role is an important part of our integrated design process and includes leadership and exposure to all elements of the campus planning and design process. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow and contribute your design voice to our brand promise of Elevating the Human Experience. The focus of this position will be to grow DLR Groups national planning processes, tools, and products for colleges and universities across the country. This is a national opportunity to work with all DLR Groups offices within the United States. You will be part of our national Campus Planning Team, within our Higher Education Practice. Along with playing an integral role in our comprehensive campus and facility planning projects, you will have the opportunity to lead and participate in facility programming, digital tool development, research, and developing expanded services for planning, analytics, policy, and management. If you are collaborative and client-oriented, with a strategic mindset that enjoys translating scales between the campus user, the institution, and the region, this might be the position for you.
Position
Responsibilities:
Be highly collaborative, with a strategic mindset, and enjoy an interdisciplinary approach to projects. Lead 360-degree Campus Engagement workshops and client communication. Focus on the future of Higher Education, student success, evolving programs and partnerships, town/gown dynamics, along with sustainability, equity, and wellness. Ensure DLR Groups higher education research, analytics, and planning support our clients institutional mission, vision, values, accreditation, and strategic planning goals and strategies. Assess higher education facilities, open space, and infrastructure. Identify campus condition, capacity, utilization, and usage patterns. Tie patterns to institutional success metrics. Integrate campus data, physical condition analysis, and recommendations with institutional strategic planning and key performance indicators. Apply state, federal, and peer-based standards. Identify and integrate evolving best practices, policies, and procedures. Synthesize quantitative and qualitative information to generate flexible implementation and capital planning strategies. Lead, collaborate, review, and confirm planning analytics, scenarios, and reports with Senior Leadership, Institutional Research, Deans, Department Chairs, Facilities Planning, and reviewing Boards. Manage the project process and communications to deliver, on time and on budget, graphics, and narrative to support project goals, objectives, and required deliverables for interim and final presentations and reports. Provide thought leadership to elevate the Campus Planning Team, our Higher Education Practice, and DLR Group as a whole. Participate in research to document trends, identify DLR Group strengths/weaknesses, and tie to Client needs. Contribute to the growth of the national campus planning team to deliver current services as well as identify and develop expanded services identified in DLR Groups Vision 2025. Actively participate in marketing and business development activities.
Qualifications:
10+ years of experience leading comprehensive planning projects for colleges and universities. Dual bachelor’s and masters degrees in complementary disciplines such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, and interiors. Ability to lead work across multiple time zones with a national team and clients located from Eastern to Alaska time zones. Ability to join a DLR Group office in either Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego or Houston. Ability to lead project processes to achieve project budgets, schedules, and research. Ability to work collaboratively with all Carnegie Classifications and levels of higher education management. Knowledge of Higher Education academic organizational structures, workflow, and operating procedures. Experience with user survey methodology. Experience with Higher Education facility programming, design, and project development. Knowledge of applicable Higher Education federal, state, and peer standards. Experience applying best practices for campus-scale assessment, analytics, diagramming, conceptualization, prioritization, phasing, and fundraising.
Experience with leading report preparation and presentations:
Translating data, engagement, assessment, and concepts into graphic storytelling Connecting short- and long-term goal setting with analysis Promoting space reallocation strategies Articulating campus development, renewal, preservation, and other capital planning strategies Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship. DLR Group is a 100% employee-owned firm. Our brand promise is to elevate the human experience through design. This promise inspires sustainable design for a diverse group of public and private sector clients; local communities; and our planet. DLR Group fully supports the initiatives and goals of the 2030 Challenge and is an initial signatory to the AIA 2030 Commitment. Visit dlrgroup.com and follow us on Twitter, and at LinkedIn. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. Please visit our website at www.dlrgroup.com to learn more about DLR Group and the exciting work we are doing.PDN-96ddc55f-f639-4a23-b592-3dc2f6ac70c8
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