Principal Planner - Education

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Principal Planner - Education More and more, our academic clients need to be provided with pathways to differentiate themselves from the competition. They need individuals who can take a fresh look at their strategic goals, long range strategic plans, master plans, space utilization and classroom and lab planning to help develop solutions that will create a sustained, successful future for years to come. We are looking for a Principal Planner, who can lead/support education clients through a variety of programming and planning scopes including building and space programming, strategic facility planning, master planning, space use and optimization, and with an emphasis on student learning and student life programs

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The primary duties of the Principal Planner are to work with teams and support clients to develop education programs and planning studies.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading user group meetings of multiple stakeholders in the academic planning process.
• Representing and sharing thought leadership with our clients and project teams.
• Developing visualization communication with staff to convey planning ideas and principles.
• Embracing HDR's Data Driven Design culture while collaborating directly with our predictive
  analytics and computational design teams who are supporting academic planning and
  programming with our clients.
• Work directly with our business development and marketing teams to develop pursuit strategies
  and capture plans for the market as a whole and for targeted clients.
• Participating in client interviews and working directly with clients to facilitate workshops/sessions.

Additional duties to include but not limited to:

• Development of our industry thought leadership.
• Providing added value to our clients and projects through industry research.
• Conducting literature searches and reviews.
• Developing programming and design content to further ideas on the future or current state of
  education.
• Crafting white papers.
• Presenting at conferences and developing articles.

The successful candidate will want to:

• Dedicate their time to promoting student-centered learning experiences and advancing vision, mission, and institutional goals for our academic clients.
• Serve as primary point of contact for clients with aptitude for building client trust and relationships.
• Collaborate with other office leadership to develop, advance and implement the goals of the Education Sector.
• Actively network at professional events, extensive community-involvement, attend and speak at conferences.
• Lead and contribute to the research, ideation, development, and successful implementation of new product and service offerings for clients.
• Lead interdisciplinary teams that include analysts, strategists, designers and clients.
• Collaborate with diverse teams to ideate and evolve solutions.
• Work with data analysts to design models that are logically sound, imaginative, and defensible.

• Ask questions. Seek clarity. Listen. Empathize.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive knowledge of higher education facilities, including academic buildings, student life buildings, STEM, libraries and campus planning for both public and private campuses.
• Ability to work effectively with clients and project teams.
• Experience with early phase marketing, pursuit development and organizing client interface.
• Ability to meet prospective clients and identify potential projects.
• Strong organizational, writing and editing skills.
• Research experience in academia, published research preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Top notch communication skills.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

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