Urban Planner (Designer)

Your Opportunity

Stantec’s DC office is seeking a motivated Campus / Urban Planner to join our Planning team. This role will support planning efforts for college and university campuses, with opportunities to contribute to related urban and community planning projects. The ideal candidate will have an educational background in both planning and design (architecture, landscape architecture, or urban design). Data analytics experience is preferred but not required.

Stantec’s Campus Planning practice is a national leader in higher education planning, delivering projects across a wide range of types and scales, including campus master plans; research, innovation, and medical district plans; and housing and student life studies. The firm also maintains a nationally recognized space analytics practice, providing space utilization and programming studies at the campus and building scales.

Key Responsibilities

• Support planning projects for colleges and universities, including campus master plans, district plans and site studies, as well as specialized planning studies.
• Assist with select urban and community planning projects, particularly those that interface with campus environments.
• Conduct research related to campus and urban planning topics.
• Provide technical support to planning projects, including GIS mapping, data collection and analysis, report writing, and preparation of planning deliverables such as plans, maps, diagrams, and graphics.
• Prepare graphic and written materials, including presentations, reports, and visual communication.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including planners, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, and other planning and design professionals.
• Coordinate with campus clients, public agencies, consultants, and other project stakeholders.
• Facilitate campus and community engagement activities, such as workshops, charrettes, and stakeholder meetings.
• Support proposal development and other business development efforts.