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Senior Campus Planner

Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Denver, Colorado, United States; Los Angeles, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

We have an opening for a Senior Campus Planner. This role could be based in the following cities:

  • Boston
  • Denver
  • Los Angeles 
  • Seattle
  • Other locations may be considered

About the Higher Education Sector at DLR Group

DLR Group’s Higher Education practice fully embraces our responsibility to society by designing spaces that emphasize academic learning and social development. We are transforming the educational landscape, working with our clients to set new horizons for learning and living that enrich school communities, the spaces they strive to provide, and what they can achieve. Our team draws from evidence-based design to work with shareholders to affect student and teacher engagement, ensuring that learning is enhanced through design. We also understand the rapid pace of technological, social, and cultural change; our teams work with schools to navigate these challenges.

Position Summary

As a Senior Campus Planner at DLR Group, you will play an important role in our integrated design process as a leader with exposure to all elements of the campus planning design process. This is a national opportunity to work with all DLR Group’s offices within the United States and 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. You will focus on national planning processes, tools, and products for colleges and universities across the country. 

What you will do:

  • 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 Group’s 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.
  • 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 Group’s Vision 2025.
  • Actively participate in marketing and business development activities.

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience leading comprehensive planning projects for colleges and universities.
  • Bachelor's and master’s 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 Alaskan time zones.
  • 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 applicable Higher Education federal, state, and peer standards.
  • Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of Higher Education academic organizational structures, workflow, and operating procedures.
  • Familiarity with user survey methodology.
  • Experience with Higher Education facility programming, design, and project development.
  • Experience applying best practices for campus-scale assessment, analytics, diagramming, conceptualization, prioritization, phasing, and fundraising.
  • Translating data, engagement, assessment, and concepts into graphic storytelling, reports and presentations.
  • Connecting short and long term goal setting with analysis.
  • Promoting space reallocation strategies.
  • Articulating campus development, renewal, preservation, and other capital planning strategies.

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is:

Pay Range

$95,000 - $130,000 USD

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.

 

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