Senior Level Planner (Los Angeles)

Sasaki; Los Angeles (CA); Vor Ort; USD 110.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Sasaki, a planning and design firm based in Los Angeles, is seeking a Senior-level Planner to join our LA studio. You will lead master planning efforts, oversee multidisciplinary teams, and coordinate content for campus and institutional projects.

The ideal candidate brings civic/urban planning experience, strong project management skills, and the ability to work across design disciplines with architects, engineers, and data analysts. Some travel may be required.

Qualifikationen

• Master's degree in planning or related field; or a BA with 1-2 years' relevant experience
• Strong organizational and management skills with attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience leading interdisciplinary design teams
• Experience with project budgets, timelines, and consultants
• Proficiency in Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Office
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong data-informed planning and space assessment abilities
• Experience developing master plan documents
• Strong presentation/layout and graphic storytelling
• Ability to research and synthesize complex planning concepts
• Willingness to travel for projects
• Degree in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, or related field

Aufgaben

• Manage interdisciplinary teams and collaborate with project team members, consultants, and clients
• Develop project content and deliverables for master plans
• Engage diverse stakeholders in planning processes
• Develop detailed planning reports and graphics
• Manage project budgets, contracts, and staffing
• Lead marketing and business development initiatives

Kenntnisse

Master planning

Project management

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Presentation skills

Graphic communication

Data-informed planning

Research synthesis

Verbal communication

Ausbildung

Master's degree in planning or related field

Bachelor's degree in planning or related field

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Microsoft Office

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Rhino

Jobbeschreibung

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Planning Full-Time Regular Professionals-Sr.Ass Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, US

Salary Range: $110,000.00 To $130,000.00 Annually

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 project budgets, contracts, and staffing
• Lead/collaborate on with marketing and business development initiatives

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:

Core Qualifications

• 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
• Master’s degree in planning or a related field OR a Bachelor’s degree in planning or related field with a preference for one to two years of relevant experience

Additional Valued Skills and Characteristics

• 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 haven’t 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