Mid-Level Urban Designer (U.S. and Middle East)

Responsibilities:

Concept/Design

• Develop environmentally-friendly design concepts and solutions for Urban Design projects for US and international markets.
• Contribute to new and ongoing planning and interdisciplinary projects focused on resilience affordability and equity.
• Generate strong cutting-edge and innovative design concepts for a range of project types including municipalities mixed-use retail residential commercial entertainment educational land uses innovation districts and transit-oriented development.
• Coordinate and collaborate with clients and consultants to design sustainable projects incorporating environmentally friendly strategies and concepts including but not limited to LEED standards.

Resiliency:

• Conduct climate change and sea level rise analyses and work carefully with local authorities landscape architects and other consultants to develop state-of-the-art resiliency strategies.

Analysis & Development:

• Prepare Urban Design analysis and alternative scenarios as appropriate (site analysis and existing conditions)
• Implement zoning analyses and reviews of jurisdictional requirements and align these with project requirements.
  • Develop Urban Design guidelines feasibility studies and impact analysis for a range of scales from individual parcels to city wide planning and zoning initiatives
• Generate drawings layouts reports incorporating various aspects of projects such as materials specifications costs and construction time and phasing under the direction of the Senior Urban Designer
• Prepare graphics narratives and presentations that clearly communicate the design process and concepts using various mediums like 2d and 3d diagrams storyboards renderings posters and videos.
• Collaborate with consultants and integrate engineering and infrastructural requirements into the design.
• Coordinate with economic consultants on the financial feasibility of projects during the conception and formulation of projects.

Community & Staff:

• Mentor junior staff ensuring the quality of the work.
• Communicate and consultwith pertinent constituencies (client local communities government officials developers interest groups various stakeholders) to determine the functional spatial and economic requirements of projects and create a vision for the project.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Masters degree in urban design architecture and urban design or a closely related field and 5 years experience in any job title with duties involving urban design.
• Expertise required in: interpretation of urban design and architectural drawings including plans sections and elevations
• Demonstrated ability to: creating and securing regulatory approval of Conceptual and Detailed Master Plans for design projects in the Middle East; performing varied scales of urban design and master planning in the U.S.; analyzing climate change and Urban Heat Mitigation; solving complex urban design planning and zoning problems across a wide range of scales; communicating graphically and verbally with stakeholders; executing multiple design projects simultaneously
• In-depth knowledge of: building typologies and land uses in Middle East
• Position requires demonstrated ability as evidenced by portfolio to perform urban design using Revit AutoCad Rhino Adobe Suite and Enscape design software or equivalent design software
• 5% domestic travel

Required Experience:

Manager