Project Manager - Urban Planning and Design

June 29

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DIALOG

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We believe design can, and should, meaningfully improve the wellbeing of our communities & the environment we all share.

Architecture • Planning & Urban Design • Interior Design • Sustainability • Engineering

501 - 1000

Description

• Participate in all aspects of our planning and urban design practice, from early analysis and visioning, to the creation of conceptual and policy directions, and recommendations to implement and realize a diversity of great, complex, urban environments. • Lead stakeholder engagement on several plans, urban designs, policies, and strategies for both public, community and private clients. • Work collaboratively with a cross-disciplinary team of people, engaging a broad constituency of clients, stakeholders, Indigenous communities, and the public. • Participate in a broad range of projects: from site specific planning to area wide policy reviews and master plans. • Ability to present at and facilitate stakeholder, municipal and public meetings. • Lead a portfolio of design projects focused on the Planning and Urban Design. • Manage client relationships on key projects. • Facilitate completion of all design and technical project deliverables as outlined in client contract. • Establish project milestones consistent with project agreements. • Organize and lead project meetings to communicate plan to team; introduce team to clients, agreements, budget overviews, team goals and milestones. • Coordinate project meetings, ensure follow-up on decisions and action items, monitor completion of client responsibilities and communicate progress to client. • Report to one or more Partners on the status of the portfolio, including project progress, successes and challenges faced. • Monitor project portfolio finances, identify and follow up on potential changes and additional services, assist in resourcing project team members, evaluate earned value, develop project budgets and update progress projections. • Work with DIALOG’s Project Accounting team to ensure that project financial deadlines are met and financial performance is monitored. • Assist in the creation of materials for project pursuits and proposals.

Requirements

• Possess related experience (including educational, volunteer and professional). • A graduate of an undergraduate or graduate-level program in urban planning, urban studies, urban geography, architecture, landscape architecture or similar. • IAP2, GBA+ and other professional training and certifications are plusses, but not required. • Strong oral and written communication skills. • Experience using Indesign and Adobe Suite skills required. • A believer in the power of human-centered design and interested in exploring practices to improve DIALOG’s user research and engagement methods. • Demonstrated experience in creative, innovative, and accessible engagement • Have a strong interest in planning theory. • Inclusive, curious, and patient – you welcome the perspectives of all stakeholders regardless of role. You can connect with people on a deep level. • Able to harness your compelling written and spoken skills to communicate design and policy. • Highly organized – you enjoy bringing order to complexity and have acute attention to detail. • Interested in collaborating and working with multi-disciplinary teams. • Adaptable and comfortable with change. Nimble and able to respond to varying project needs. • A self-starter, quick learner with an entrepreneurial spirit that takes initiative and is proactive • Someone who values collaboration, diversity, aspiration, and optimism.

Benefits

• Not specified