Campus Planner

Campus Planner

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

The University's largest campus is in Boston, located on both sides of Huntington Avenue on the edges of the Fenway, South End, Mission Hill, and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston. Northeastern's mission is to educate students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment, and to create and translate knowledge to meet global and societal needs.

On its Boston campus, Northeastern occupies approximately 67 acres of total land area, with a total of 8.13M built square feet. The campus's facilities accommodate almost 6,000 staff and faculty, and approximately 16,000 undergraduate students on campus—although this number fluctuates as students complete co-ops and study abroad opportunities outside of the city. In addition to Boston, Northeastern maintains a presence in ten different domestic and international locations as part of its Global Network, totaling 287,000 square feet of leased space.

CPRE is responsible for planning, programming, and designing campuses that meet current and future needs for Northeastern students, faculty, and staff. CPRE work falls into several key categories, including design, space and capital planning, sustainability and resiliency, real estate, and the global campus network. The CPRE team values collaboration, community engagement, sustainability, agility, and diversity and inclusion, and strives to incorporate these components into our day-to-day work.

About the Opportunity:
Northeastern University Campus Planning and Real Estate (CPRE) department is seeking a Campus Planner to join a team of talented planners to propose innovative solutions to space challenges and capital projects which will position Northeastern for continued growth and success as a research institution.

The mission of the Campus Planning and Real Estate (CPRE) department is to connect people, space, and resources to prepare the university to thrive in the future. The CPRE Team is responsible for the development of physical campus growth strategies for the Boston campus, suburban MA campuses and the growing global network of campuses.

Under direction from the Associate Vice President and in collaboration with the planning team members, the Campus Planner will be responsible for supporting planning activities across a range of projects and initiatives overseen by the CPRE.

Responsibilities:
The Planner will use their skillset to develop program options, approaches, and support to solve specific university space needs and goals. Utilizing their background in space planning, urban or campus design, and engagement the Planner will evolve program needs into practical short- and long-term options, develop graphics to visualize these options and approaches, and assemble graphically clear presentation materials to provide decision support for senior university leadership. Working at a range of planning scales from campus-wide approaches to capital renewal, to smaller project level planning, being able to easily pivot between the each is critical.

The Planner will be responsible for working with a diverse group of university stakeholders to explore their vision for the physical campus and help bring it to realization. In collaboration with the planning team and partnership with Facilities department, the Planner is responsible for identifying, articulating, and clearly communicating key tradeoffs and decision points for university client groups around capital project requests.

The Campus Planner will develop effective communication materials that distill complex ideas into concise options and tradeoffs. As part of the Campus Planning team, the Campus Planner places high value on customer service, partnering with clients and connecting them to the broader planning vision.

Additionally, the Planner will be required to collect and interpret data, conduct planning research and analysis, and manage or collaborate on active planning initiatives lead by the CPRE team.

Qualifications:
Work requires a completion of Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Urban Planning or a closely related field with 5 years of experience in space design or planning. Master's Degree in Planning or Urban Design is preferred with 3 years of experience.

Strong graphic visualization and presentation skills are essential in this position. Prior experience working in higher education space planning is a plus. Work requires the ability to solve space planning issues, to communicate clearly in written, verbal, and graphic form, and to collaborate effectively as part of a team. Strong organizational and project management skills is a plus.

Proficient use of Geographic Information Systems, Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint and other tools to design and assemble graphically compelling and clear presentations is highly desirable.

Ability to apply creative planning approaches and design thinking in a fast-paced environment and to support multiple planning activities concurrently is essential.


Preferred Qualifications:

Salary Grade:
13

Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.



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