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About the Role
NBBJ is seeking a Senior Higher Education Campus Planner/Designer to lead transformative campus planning projects for top-tier colleges and universities. This role involves integrating design thinking with institutional strategy and data analytics, guiding institutions through visioning and long-range planning.
Responsibilities
- Translate client vision into actionable and inspiring spatial strategies through hand-drawn or digital plans, diagrams, and sketches.
- Conceptualize ideas at varying scales, from campus-wide to site-specific.
- Collaborate with NBBJ campus planning team colleagues and cross-practice teams.
- Advocate for integrated sustainability, resilience, and equity in planning recommendations.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to higher education clients, leading the planning process from engagement to delivery.
- Present plans and recommendations to senior university leadership and stakeholder groups.
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with higher education clients.
- Support business development efforts, including proposals and project interviews.
- Support the advancement of NBBJ’s thought leadership through speaking engagements and white papers.
- Stay informed about higher education trends, emerging pedagogies, and the evolving role of the physical campus.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or a related field.
- 15+ years of experience in higher education planning or institutional strategy.
- Proven experience leading campus planning efforts for higher education institutions.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences and build consensus.
- Proficiency in analog or digital sketching skills.
- Master's degree in Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or a related field (Preferred).
- AICP, PLA, AIA or other relevant professional certifications (Preferred).
- Familiarity with data visualization tools or dashboards is a plus (Preferred).
Skills
- Design thinking
- Data analytics
- Large-scale campus planning
- Planning-level design concepts
- Understanding of academic environments
- Visioning of long-range planning strategies
- Spatial strategies
- Hand-drawn sketching
- Digital sketching
- Collaboration
- Sustainability
- Resilience
- Equity
- Client advisory
- Presentation
- Relationship building
- Business development
- Thought leadership
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Data visualization
Location
- Columbus (OH)
- Seattle (WA)
- New York (NY)
- Boston (MA)
- United States
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 15+ years of experience
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 - $145,000
Benefits
- Hybrid work options available
About the Company
- NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient.
- NBBJ's purpose-driven approach creates healthy buildings, strong communities, and a resilient environment.
- NBBJ offers a career that inspires individuals to be extraordinary with leading clients, diverse colleagues, and offices in creative capitals around the globe.