Sr. Project Manager | Cities & Communities (Dallas)

Urban Design Manager

A primary managerial position for all active Urban Design projects and is ultimately responsible for project successes. Responsible for coordinating project schedules, contractual and financial duties. Shares responsibility with Senior Urban Designers and respective leadership for project successes. Recognized ability to impact revenue and growth. Possesses strong leadership and communication skills, a flexible attitude, ability to solve problems creatively and ability to foster and manage effective client relationships. Responsible for high-impact decisions across multiple projects. Endorses the firm's values by personally influencing client service, innovation and communication. Fosters productive client and design team relationships.

Responsibilities :

• Acts as lead designer on multiple projects developing urban design concepts at a variety of scales, site and context analysis, presentations and final client deliverables
• Guides and directs multiple project teams to manage the development of design throughout design development and implementation documents
• Establishes the vision and sets project goals in conjunction with the client and project team
• Leads design effort and client presentations to develop and support client relationships
• Exercises skills of persuasion and negotiation on critical issues
• Develops creative design concepts for projects and expands on concepts of others
• Manages design solutions based on principles of urban design and planning including building massing, scale, public space design, building typologies and site circulation to projects
• Ability to lead public input processes, community engagement and develop stakeholder outreach strategies
• Oversees schematic land and site planning drawings with graphic content to convey ideas, methodologies and approaches for marketing and proposal requests
• Oversees the development of and may modify and / or review graphic presentations, 3D rendering and implementation documents to incorporate the design intent
• Oversees delivery of complete project design presentation to client user group or public forum
• Coordinates with consultants, community stakeholders and regulatory agencies to meet overall project objectives; manages project details with consulting firms
• Resolves complex design issues with innovative and practical solutions to maintain goals and objectives of projects
• Works with respective teams to manage client expectations, team communication and consultant coordination
• Leads and collaborates in team meetings to discuss project issues, technical issues and coordination with other disciplines

Qualifications :

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