Intermediate Urban Planner + Urban Planner (18-Month Contract)

Employer/Organization: DIALOG

Closing: May 23rd 2024 11:30 PM PST

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Intermediate Urban Planner

How you'll make a difference:

Project management of large and complex projects.
Lead both broad and deep engagement on several plans, urban designs, policies, and strategies for both public and private sector clients.
Contribute to 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.
Work collaboratively with a cross-disciplinary team of people.
Participate in a broad range of projects: from site specific planning to area wide policy reviews and master plans. 
Lead compelling presentations at municipal and public meetings.

Who you are:

A believer in the power of human-centered design and interested in exploring practices to improve DIALOG’s user research and engagement methods.
Have a strong interest in planning theory.
Inclusive, curious, and patient – you welcome all perspectives. 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 motivated, quick learner with an entrepreneurial spirit that takes initiative and is proactive.
Someone who values collaboration, diversity, aspiration, and optimism.

Required skills and qualifications:

A graduate of an undergraduate or graduate-level program in urban planning, urban studies, urban geography or similar.
Minimum 4 - 7 years of experience in urban planning, ideally in a consulting environment.
Possess related experience, including educational, volunteer, and professional; ideally a combination of all three.
Experience analyzing, updating, and developing policy for both Institutional and Municipal clients. This should include Campus Master Plans, Neighbourhood Plans, and Official Community Plans.
Experience developing Design Guidelines.
High degree of proficiency using InDesign and Adobe Suite.
Experience directing and coordinating subconsultants.
Experience with project management and maintaining exceptional client relationships.
Demonstrated experience in creative, innovative, and accessible engagement.
Experience engaging with underrepresented voices.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Ability to present to clients and at municipal and public meetings.

Outstanding if you have these, but not required:

$77,000 - $105,000 a year.

Urban Planner (18-Month Contract)

How you'll make a difference:

Provide project management support for projects of varying size and complexity.
Lead both broad and deep engagement on several plans, urban designs, policies, and strategies for both public and private sector clients.
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.
Work collaboratively with a cross-disciplinary team of people.
Participate in a broad range of projects: from site specific planning to area wide policy reviews and master plans.

Who you are:

A believer in the power of human-centered design and interested in exploring practices to improve DIALOG’s user research and engagement methods.
Have a strong interest in planning theory.
Inclusive, curious, and patient – you welcome all perspectives. 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 motivated, quick learner with an entrepreneurial spirit that takes initiative and is proactive.
Someone who values collaboration, diversity, aspiration, and optimism.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

A graduate of an undergraduate or graduate-level program in urban planning, urban studies, urban geography or similar.
Minimum 6 years of experience in urban planning, ideally in a consulting environment.
Possess related experience, including educational, volunteer, and professional; ideally a combination of all three.
High degree of proficiency using InDesign and Adobe Suite.
Manage and direct subconsultants.
Manage overall project performance, including schedule, budget, and deliverables.
Maintain exceptional client relationships.
Demonstrated experience in creative, innovative, and accessible engagement.
Experience engaging with underrepresented voices.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Ability to present to clients and at municipal and public meetings.

Outstanding if you have these, but not required:

$77,000 - $105,000 a year.