Strategic Campus Planner & Analytics Lead

DLR Group; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DLR Group is seeking a Campus Planner focused on space strategy and analytics. You will bridge campus planning, facilities strategy, data analytics, and design, turning complex information into actionable planning guidance for higher education clients.

You will work with campus planners, architects, and leaders to understand existing facilities, test scenarios, and translate findings into strategies and master plans. This is not a pure data-analyst role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in planning, architecture, facilities management, data analytics, or related field.
• Strong systems-thinking skills to connect people, programs, policies, facilities, and priorities.
• Experience using data to identify patterns, derive insights, and tell a compelling story.
• Excellent Excel skills; proficient with Power BI and Tableau.
• Experience transforming complex datasets; Power Query a plus.
• Strong writing, verbal, graphic and presentation abilities.
• Ability to convey analytical findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Curiosity to uncover underlying reasons behind data.
• Collaborative across disciplines; able to travel within the United States.
• Eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Connect institutional strategy, academic priorities, facilities data, and physical space.
• Analyze space inventories, utilization, enrollment, scheduling, and facilities trends.
• Translate data into visualizations, narratives, scenarios, and client-ready recommendations.
• Identify patterns across buildings and programs to reveal space opportunities and constraints.
• Contribute to campus master plans, facility plans, and space utilization studies.
• Manage data validation and visualization processes to deliver high-quality outputs.
• Facilitate conversations with stakeholders to explain data significance.
• Develop strategies on space utilization, allocation policies, and future needs.
• Collaborate with architects and designers to translate findings into design solutions.
• Develop dashboards, tools, and methodologies to improve analysis efficiency.

Skills

Systems thinking

Data storytelling

Excel

Communication skills

Collaboration across disciplines

Data analysis

Presentations

Education

Bachelor's degree in planning/architecture/data analytics

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Power Query

GIS

SQL / databases

Job description

DLR Group is seeking a Campus Planner focused on space strategy and analytics. You will bridge campus planning, facilities strategy, data analytics, and design, turning complex information into actionable planning guidance for higher education clients.

You will work with campus planners, architects, and leaders to understand existing facilities, test scenarios, and translate findings into strategies and master plans. This is not a pure data-analyst role.