Senior Planning & Placemaking Project Manager (Hybrid)

Fisher Associates; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

PTO and holidays

401(k) plan

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Fisher Associates in Buffalo, NY is seeking a Project Manager II – Planning to lead multidisciplinary planning and placemaking projects for public- and private-sector clients. You will coordinate teams, manage client relationships, and guide projects from pursuit through completion.

You will develop scopes, schedules, budgets, and engagement plans, while mentoring staff and expanding the firm’s planning and community design practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in urban planning, community planning, regional planning, urban design, or related field.
• 8-12 years of progressively responsible experience in planning, urban design, placemaking, or related field.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary projects, including scope, schedule, budget, and client relationships.
• Experience working with municipal clients, public agencies, community stakeholders, or private-sector clients.
• Strong understanding of land use, zoning, development regulations, and public-sector processes.
• Experience with public engagement, facilitation, and presentation to diverse audiences.
• Experience preparing proposals, scopes of work, schedules, and project fees.
• AICP certification.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office, and other planning software.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and competing client needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, placemaking, and community design projects from proposal and contracting through completion.
• Develop and manage project scopes, schedules, budgets, work plans, contracts, deliverables, and project resources.
• Serve as the primary project contact and day-to-day advisor for assigned clients while managing expectations, risks, changes, subconsultants, and project quality.
• Lead comprehensive plans, downtown plans, corridor studies, waterfront revitalization plans, neighborhood plans, land-use studies, zoning initiatives, and community development strategies.
• Develop land-use, zoning, urban design, placemaking, transportation, economic development, and community development recommendations and implementation frameworks.
• Lead client, stakeholder, and public engagement activities, including meetings, workshops, presentations, and facilitation with elected officials, agencies, community organizations, property owners, developers, and other stakeholders.
• Develop client relationships, pursue new opportunities, lead or support RFQs, RFPs, proposals, interviews, and presentations, and mentor planners and project managers.

Skills

AICP certification

Excellent communication

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in urban planning or related field

Master's degree in planning or urban design (preferred)

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

ArcGIS

Microsoft Office

SketchUp (preferred)

Job description

Fisher Associates in Buffalo, NY is seeking a Project Manager II – Planning to lead multidisciplinary planning and placemaking projects for public- and private-sector clients. You will coordinate teams, manage client relationships, and guide projects from pursuit through completion.

You will develop scopes, schedules, budgets, and engagement plans, while mentoring staff and expanding the firm’s planning and community design practice.