Senior Campus Planner: Strategy, Space & Capital Projects

University of New Mexico; Albuquerque (NM); Hybrid; USD 59,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Tuition remission

Dependent education programs

Job summary

The University of New Mexico (UNM) Campus Capital & Space Planning is seeking a full-time Sr. Planner to oversee facility planning initiatives across the university's academic, administrative, athletic, and residential programs.

The Sr. Planner will manage planning documents, coordinate with Provost and Facilities leadership, and provide strategic direction on space allocation, capital development, and asset management, including environmental design projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree; at least 5 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in campus master planning studies, long-term facility management and land planning activities.
• Manages production of planning documents, reports, feasibility studies, concept plans, facility plans, special studies, and environmental design projects, including identifying project scope, budget, schedule, goals and objectives, critical physical and environmental constraints, program needs, space utilization, facility conditions, and establishes and monitors project deliverables.
• Collaborates with Office of the Provost, Administrative leadership, and Space Optimization and Capital Plan Managers to analyze the efficiency and utilization of existing space allocations and to strategize space needs in facility planning.
• Provides strategic leadership to wide variety of facility and asset management efforts.
• Provides guidance in benchmarking, technology, academic and research trends, and space projections to establish quantitative facility and capital projections.
• Assists with production of the annual capital budget, inclusive of facilities, landscape, and infrastructure and participates in the 5-year capital budget update.
• Provides comprehensive facility planning support to all Campus Capital & Space Planning capital projects; including the development and/or guidance of project scopes, programs, program adjustments, and revisions in development.
• Participates in various internal and external committees and working groups concerned with the campus environment and facilities.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical abilities

Communication skills

Writing skills

Consensus building

Space planning awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in Architecture/Planning

Tools

Word

Excel

Desktop publishing

Graphic applications

Planning spreadsheets

Job description

The University of New Mexico (UNM) Campus Capital & Space Planning is seeking a full-time Sr. Planner to oversee facility planning initiatives across the university's academic, administrative, athletic, and residential programs.

The Sr. Planner will manage planning documents, coordinate with Provost and Facilities leadership, and provide strategic direction on space allocation, capital development, and asset management, including environmental design projects.