Job Overview

Campus planning provides long-term direction and goals for the university’s physical and built environment, ensuring the highest and best use of land and space to meet the university’s academic, research, and strategic initiatives.  This includes architectural planning services for relocations, reorganizations, renovations, and capital construction projects. Campus planning covers all aspects of the built environment and the network of systems that link these elements in support of the campus community, including buildings, open space, transportation, and accessibility.

Essential Functions

• Provide strategic guidance within Planning + Design + Construction to ensure all projects maintain alignment with the university’s strategic mission and goals. 
• Work with minimal oversight within a collaborative team environment while managing multiple projects, assignments, and deadlines.
• Evaluate planning projects to support university priorities, coordinate and phase efforts appropriately to maximize space utilization, optimize use of limited resources, and to meet the long-term vision for the campus built environment.
• Develop programming documents, communicate project objectives, define and quantify space needs, develop project budget estimates, and project implementation schedules.
• Provide solutions and alternatives in a high-demand environment, objectively evaluate and establish priorities while managing multiple projects, to effectively build consensus and meet project goals and schedules.
• Independently perform work on complex planning assignments, including master planning, campus wide systems planning, site development planning, college and unit planning, architectural space planning, as well as project planning including directing feasibility studies, temporary location planning, and project phasing for multi-project plans over multiple years.
• Compile, organize, and evaluate planning data; including current and projected enrollment, space utilization data, academic scheduling, academic pedagogies, university standards and Master Plan concepts to draw conclusions, support project recommendations, and inform decision-making. 
• Prepare capital budgets, technical reports, planning studies, and related documents.
• Facilitate client engagement meetings, workshops, and informational presentations within the campus community.
• Monitor projects in development and construction for compliance with programmatic requirements and planning principles.
• Maintain communications with project stakeholders, university departments, and project team to manage project scope, budget, and schedules. 
• Work collaboratively and coordinate with staff from other units such as project management, construction management, engineering, interior design, space management, facilities management, digital technology solutions, sustainability and real estate to develop a project of requirements and its associated documents.

Minimum Requirements

Prior to date of application, all of the following are required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture, Urban Planning or related field.
• Three (3) years of relevant work experience in higher education planning and design for a variety of higher education and campus environments, and which must have included the following: project management; use of the software Archibus, GIS programs, eBuilder Project Management, AutoCAD, BIM, Adobe Creative Suite, and Bluebeam; and LEED, WELL, and Living Building Challenge standards.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment