| Essential Job Duties | The Architectural Campus Planner will play a key role in guiding long-term development, strategic initiatives, and space planning across one of the most dynamic and innovative campuses in the country. This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking professional who enjoys solving complex planning challenges, collaborating with varied stakeholders, and making a meaningful impact on the physical environment of the university.
In this role, the position provides Campus Planning and NCSU Colleges with expertise in planning for long-range campus development projects, campus strategic initiatives, and space analysis and management. The position works closely with other Facilities Division units and stakeholders across campus. This position may manage outside designers, may produce in-house studies, and provide space data analysis for decision-making.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The work required for this role involves a high degree of complexity and requires functioning as the technical or subject matter expert. Key responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to:
Planning, Analysis, and Design
- Translate the university’s strategic plan into the required campus facilities to meet the plan’s goals and objectives.
- Provide design solutions for a broad range of architectural, interior, and engineering planning issues essential to meet the university’s physical development needs.
- Analyze, document, and develop planning projects, policies and procedures, and informal project designs to address the university’s physical campus needs.
- Typical duties include:
- Developing facilities planning and design strategies for building architecture and interior spaces.
- Developing space programs and space analysis.
- Leading architectural and space studies, including coordination with building (MEP) and lab systems analysis.
- Identifying and developing project alternative design options.
- Recommending planning and design solutions guided by the Physical Master Plan.
Support for the Physical Master Plan - Assist in providing recommendations on implementing the Physical Master Plan focused on architecture, interior, and land use design. This is accomplished through the development of schematic designs, feasibility studies, and development plans considering the various facility components of the campus.
- Projects may also include assisting with the planning and design of: Infrastructure, Mobility support systems, ADA accessibility, and other general facilities planning and development support functions.
Stakeholder Coordination and Representation - Work requires considerable contact with campus leadership, as well as with architects, engineers, and other related industry professionals.
- This requires the ability to lead and assemble the appropriate stakeholders to make the highest and best decisions for the university.
- This position represents the university as an expert.
Complexity of Work - Work assignments may involve unique factors and be lacking in precedence on which to base decisions.
- Assignments may be technically complex as evidenced by a high number of variables.
- Work assignments are often technically complex, involving unique challenges with limited precedent, requiring a high degree of professional expertise in detailed technical procedures.
- Work is often performed independently, requiring professional knowledge of complex and/or detailed technical procedures.
- Work performed includes exercising judgment and decision- making that directly impacts life, health, safety, and/or the environment.
Potential Oversight and Authority - This position may be responsible for consultation, evaluation, planning, design, design review, and approval of campus development plans, buildings, utility systems, site plans, mapping, and infrastructure.
- The position may provide project management oversight.
- Responsibilities may include overseeing major campus planning efforts and managing the implementation of projects/plans according to building codes and zoning regulations, which may include approval authority.
- Work may require considerable public contact to explain planning or design projects, analysis of data, and standards. This may require appearances before campus administration, college administrations, regulatory bodies, and building committees.
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| Other Responsibilities | - Work assignments are often technically complex, involving unique challenges with limited precedent, requiring a high degree of professional expertise in detailed technical procedures.
- Work is often performed independently requiring professional knowledge of complex and/or detailed technical procedures.
- Work may require considerable public contact to explain planning or design projects, analysis of data, and standards. This may require appearances before campus administration, college administrations, regulatory bodies, and building committees to provide consultation and design or technical assistance, and may require negotiation to determine the feasibility of project implementation.
- Work may require professional licensure or other certifications. Work performed includes exercising judgment and decision-making that directly impacts life, health, safety, and/or the environment.
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