Senior Associate Urban Designer

Responsibilities:

• Lead multidisciplinary team and ensure they are given clear instructions and guidance.
• Supervise and participate in advanced complex professional planning activities.
• Assigns work to professional staff and ensures appropriate training is provided. Urban Planning and Urban Design
• Perform and manage complex and sensitive professional planning projects, research and analysis.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with local and international standards.
• Advise the Planning Director on all planning-related matters.
• Gather, compile, and analyze data on economic, social, and physical factors affecting the developments.
• Develop technical inputs to support the delivery of high-quality plans, reports, and presentations.
• Confer with local authorities, civic leaders, social scientists, and land planning and development specialists to devise and recommend arrangements of land and physical facilities for residential, commercial, transportation, industrial, and community uses.
• Develop recommendations based on governmental measures affecting land use, public utilities, community facilities, housing, and transportation to control and guide community development and renewal. Project Planning
• Prepare work programs to translate project objectives provided by the Client into detailed plans and take on the responsibility to subdivide work assignments and tasks to the project team. Relationships with External Stakeholders
• Maintain contact and coordination with the multiple external agencies involved in the translation of the Government's development mandate and master plan objectives into work plans through maintaining meaningful working relationships to facilitate a shared understanding.
Business Development
• Support business development activities including the preparation of bids, pricing and content development.
• Prepare business presentations to promote the works of the planning studio.
• Support Key Account Management and nurturing Client relationships per business strategy. Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning, Architecture, or closely related field. Masters in Urban Planning is preferred.