Senior Level Planner (Los Angeles)

Los Angeles, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 110000 - 130000

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Campus Planner - Los Angeles

Sasaki is seeking a Senior-level Planner to join our Los Angeles studio. Sasaki is a planning and design firm of about 300 professionals working throughout the United States and internationally from our offices in Boston Massachusetts; Denver Colorado; Brooklyn NY; and Los Angeles CA.

The successful candidate will manage multidisciplinary teams including internal teams and external consultants lead and supervise content development and deliverables for master planning projects and collaborate on project pursuits and BD initiatives in collaboration with the Sasaki principals. The role

requires a positive outlook and the ability to manage multiple planning projects simultaneously. The ideal candidate is a creative professional with experience with civic/urban planning and/or in higher education or institutional planning projects. The candidate should have experience with project

management in a design office setting and an enthusiasm/interest in applying these skills to urban and/or campus planning projects. The role requires the ability to integrate and coordinate the work of planners data analysts architects urban designers landscape architects engineers and graphic designers.

We are committed to personal growth and individual well-being and offer a variety of resources to support career development including in-house training mentoring professional association memberships and licensing examination reimbursement.

Responsibilities:

Manage interdisciplinary teams and collaborate with project team members consultants and
clients
Manage and contribute to the development of project content and deliverables for master plans
Work with internal and client teams to engage diverse stakeholders in planning processes
Develop detailed planning reports and graphics
Manage data assessment tasks
Manage project budgets contracts and staffing
Lead/collaborate on with marketing and business development initiatives

Core Qualifications

The list below describes the optimal qualifications of the mid to senior-level planner to meet typical project needs for campus projects. We encourage people to apply for the position if they meet most of these attributes:

Curiosity and enthusiasm for master planning. Experience with campus planning is a plus.
Strong organizational and management skills with attention to detail
Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills
Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
Experience managing an interdisciplinary design team in an office setting OR experience working within an institutional campus planning office
Experience with project management including managing project budgets timelines internal teams and external consultants
Knowledge of and comfort with Adobe Indesign and Microsoft Office (Word Excel PowerPoint)
Excellent written and verbal communication (planning reports memoranda and day-to-day communication)
Excellent quantitative and qualitative analysis skills to support data-informed planning processes and space assessments
Experience developing presentations and master plan documents
Strong presentation/layout skills graphic communication and storytelling (informational graphicsproduction; layout for presentations reports and engagement materials; mapping and 2D diagrams)
Ability to research and synthesize complex planning concepts
Capacity for project-related travel
Masters degree in planning or a related field OR a Bachelors degree in planning or related field with a preference for one to two years of relevant experience

Additional Valued Skills and Characteristics

Planners at Sasaki share a common set of core competencies but also have a range of complementary strengths and interests. The list below describes some additional skills and characteristics desirable in candidates:

Experience with project pursuits and BD in a design firm including developing proposals and project scopes and participating in project interviews
Experience in a higher education or institutional context or with higher education clients
Beneficial to have previous experience with academic space planning
Knowledge of and comfort with other Adobe programs (AI PSD) AutoCAD Sketchup Rhino and/or other design programs
Unique superpower that we havent thought to ask about but that will make an impact on our campus planning projects and practice
Degree in architecture landscape architecture urban design or another design field

Required Experience:

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Senior Campus Planner - Los AngelesSasaki is seeking a Senior-level Planner to join our Los Angeles studio. Sasaki is a planning and design firm of about 300 professionals working throughout the United States and internationally from our offices in Boston Massachusetts; Denver Colorado; Brooklyn NY;...