Job Posting Title:
Senior Strategic Planner
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Hiring Department:
VP for Business Strategies
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Position Open To:
All Applicants
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Weekly Scheduled Hours:
40
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FLSA Status:
Exempt
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Earliest Start Date:
Immediately
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Position Duration:
Expected to Continue
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Location:
AUSTIN, TX
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Job Details:
General Notes
You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will make a difference in the lives of staff, thereby enhancing the student experience. If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working in our department and for UT Austin. UT Austin provides an outstanding benefits package including but not limited to:
- Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
- Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
- Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
- Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with 8.25% employer matching funds
- Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
- Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
- Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities
- Tuition assistance
- Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets
- Free access to UT Austin's libraries and museums with staff ID card
- Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card
- For more details, please see: https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective/benefits and https://hr.utexas.edu/current/services/my-total-rewards .
Purpose
Provides oversight as directed by the Director of Real Estate Planning, of real estate planning, campus planning, university master planning, land use plans, campus development agreements, site planning, mobility planning, and zoning issues. Assists with the development and utilization of strategic planning analysis. The Senior Strategic Campus Planner will play a pivotal role in the strategic planning and development of the university’s campus. This role will ensure that campus development aligns with the institution's mission and long-term growth objectives.
Responsibilities
- Works with senior leadership, senior administration, steering committees and other campus stakeholders to lead the development and implementation of comprehensive campus master plans that align with the university’s academic, research, and community objectives. Provide strategic direction and oversight for campus planning initiatives, ensuring alignment with long-term institutional goals and priorities.
- Utilize in-depth land use analyses to optimize campus space allocation, addressing zoning regulations, environmental impacts, and community needs.
- Coordinate with the campus real estate office on the acquisition, disposition, and development of university-owned real estate, ensuring strategic alignment with the university’s growth and development plans.
- Coordinate with external developers, city officials, and community groups, integrating campus planning with broader urban development initiatives.
- Collaborate with diverse teams of interdisciplinary professionals and related departments to support large scale development and strategic planning projects from consultant selection, scope development to planning recommendations.
- Responsible for leading focused strategic real estate planning and assessment efforts and providing consultation to a broad range of stakeholders both internal and external to the University. Assessment outcomes are a critical resource for executive-level decision-making about campus real estate strategic planning, site planning and project planning.
- Frequently working as a facilitator and convener, the Senior Strategic Planner provides leadership to peer professional and university staff.
- Support production of project presentations, plan reports and all project deliverables to ensure an integrated and cohesive outcome. Ensures consistency and adherence to standards, codes, processes, and policies for all projects.
- Secure/maintain required discipline license including any continued education criterion.
- Other related functions as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning, or related field.
- Five (5) or more years experience in campus planning, urban planning, land use planning, or real estate planning management to include collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, and documenting planning efforts.
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects at once.
- Exposure to cost engineering, planning and contracts administration.
- Ability to analyze large data sets.
- Demonstrated ability to develop mid to long-range plans.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a team environment.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build rapport with key University administrators, licensed design and construction professionals, and members of the University community.
- Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Access).
- Must have a valid driver's license and an acceptable driving record.
Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree or advanced degree in Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning, or related field.
- Seven (7) or more years experience in campus planning, urban planning, land use planning, or real estate planning management to include collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, and documenting planning efforts.
- Professional Engineer or Architectural license or ability to obtain within one year of employment.
- Demonstrated ability to provide effective project leadership in terms of setting project objectives/expectations and working with multiple stakeholders to execute.
- Well-developed computer literacy specifically including MS Office suite, Bluebeam, Adobe Creative Suite, MS Project (Gantt charts), AutoCad/Revit.
Driving Required
This job requires a class "C" operator's driver's license. The applicant selected must provide a current three year driving record from the current state of residence. If not currently a Texas resident, a Texas driver's license must be obtained within 30 days of becoming a Texas resident. Employees who are required to have a CDL are subject to drug and alcohol testing (pre-employment, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, random, return-to-duty, and follow-up drug and alcohol testing).
Salary Range
$100,000 + depending on qualifications
Working Conditions
- All weather conditions
- Standard office
- Keyboard
- Manual dexterity
- May work around standard office conditions. Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation. Use of manual dexterity.
Required Materials
- Resume/CV
- 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
- Letter of interest
Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.
Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.
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Employment Eligibility:
Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.
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Retirement Plan Eligibility:
The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) instead of TRS, subject to the position being 40 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.
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Background Checks:
A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.
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Equal Opportunity Employer:
The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
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Pay Transparency:
The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
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Employment Eligibility Verification:
If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.
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E-Verify:
The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:
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Compliance:
Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.
The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.
