Senior Urban Planner/Designer

at  Rambll

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are you excited about making an impact by leading large scale Urban Development projects or taking on key roles as urban planner and designer? Are you motivated by creating sustainable change through innovative masterplanning that benefits society and nature? Are you a curious and open-minded person?
If this sounds like you, or you’re eager to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our International Water and Climate Resilience organization as our new Senior Urban Planner/Designer and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION IS AT THE HEART OF WHAT WE DO

We believe in the strength of diversity and know that unique experiences and perspectives are vital for creating truly sustainable societies. Therefore, we are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone can flourish and reach their potential. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and encourage you to contact our recruitment team to discuss any accommodations you need during the application process

As our new Senior Urban Planner/Designer, you will serve as the day-to-day senior expert or lead of Urban Planning and Design activities for select client segments and programs particularly in the Public and Private Developer market, and take on the discipline lead responsibilities within large scale masterplanning projects. You will work on multi-disciplinary urban development and regeneration projects together with the global Water team-leadership and senior experts and project managers in the business units for Water, Environment & Health, Architecture and Landscape, Transport and Buildings.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Lead Urban Planner/Designer, and at times Project Manager of masterplanning projects, with many stakeholders and high technological, contractual, political, and cultural complexity.
• Facilitation of all phases of masterplanning projects within your technical discipline, with a focus on quality, meeting deadlines, and budgets.
• Active participation in developing and running interdisciplinary and / or inter-organizational projects.
• Collaboration and sparring with other technical leads, project managers and colleagues across Ramboll.
• Development and support of the competence development of Urban Planners and Designers and project employees by creating synergy between performance in the project and development of the team’s professional / personal strengths.
• Contribute to the development of “best practices” within Urban Planning and Design
• Communication with the customer’s organization at several levels and encourage and facilitate ongoing dialogue between the participants in the project (clients, partners, authorities and the project group’s employees)
• Active participation in sales and market-related activities, including screening opportunities, partnering strategies, quotation and active sales as well as maintaining and developing personal customer and partnership relationships. Responsible as key contact for select clients.
• Leading fundraising for knowledge and innovation projects through applications to foundations in Denmark and internationally
• At times expected to be a Team Leader, Key Expert or Non-Key expert on IFI water and masterplanning related projects.

Your project specific key tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Design and story-telling: Bring urban planning and design ideas to the table, build upon other designs, and utilize clear and concise story-telling techniques
• Visualizations and sketches: Support on projects and tenders in developing meaningful sketches, cross sections, visualizations, etc.
• Desktop analysis: Many of our projects include desktop research, landscape analysis, data gathering & review, synthesizing reports, etc.
• Communication: You will help formulate presentations, sketching, minutes of meetings, workshop materials, project references, power points, technical memos, proofreading of reports and deliverables. etc.
• Technical Discipline Support: Support on projects and tenders in preparing land use strategies, densities, urban programming, active mobility strategies, etc.
• GIS-analysis: Support our project portfolio through the application of spatial data analysis.