Senior Urban Planner/Designer

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.

Your new role

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 teams professional / personal strengths.
• Contribute to the development of "best practices" within Urban Planning and Design
• Communication with the customers organization at several levels and encourage and facilitate ongoing dialogue between the participants in the project (clients, partners, authorities and the project groups 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.

Your new team

You will be part of the International Water and Climate Resilience Department in Copenhagen. You will work as part of a lively team, filled with people who are excited about creating liveable cities and societies of the future. Our team is vibrant, innovative, international, and supportive. You will collaborate with your colleagues to play a critical role in defining and delivering on projects that involve multiple clients in countries across the world, with a primary focus on South East Asia. Our team is known in Ramboll for being especially good at celebrating each other, project milestones and colleague birthdays, so you can expect to join for lots of social celebrations.

About you

From the moment you start at Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you can continue to grow with the company. Whilst we look forward to supporting your continued learning and development, for this role we have identified some qualifications, skills, and capabilities that will set you up for success.

These include:

• In-Depth knowledge and experience in the public and private urban masterplanning market (clients, competitors, project pipelines, etc)
• Understanding and ability to contribute on all phase from vision, through conceptual design and experience in stakeholder and community engagement strategies.
• Management and control of stages of the projects, relating to your expertise.
• Broad understanding of the challenges within Sustainability, Resilience, complete communities, liveability, climate adaptation, integrated infrastructure, Water driven planning, urban mixed use master planning.
• Insight into your own strengths and limitations regarding management behaviour and ability to exercise situational leadership, within your discipline.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (Danish an advantage, but not a requirement)

To succeed in the job as an Urban Planner/Designer, it is important that you are committed and outgoing with a natural interest in understanding our customers issues and needs. You participate actively in the process of finding the right local solutions based on inputs from several disciplines and stakeholders, and you take pride in delivering a high professional level, that things are in order and ensuring good project finances within your discipline. You are an excellent communicator both in writing and orally and like to be the one who shares your knowledge between clients and project teams. You are a team player who is curious about the competencies of others to find the right team of colleagues and partners for the benefit of our clients. Specifically, this means that you:

• Develop and comply with project plans, quality requirements and budgets for the individual projects and tasks
• Facilitate high customer satisfaction (CSS), through successful delivery of your technical expertise on projects
• Facilitate high employee satisfaction on projects (measured by the annual employee satisfaction survey ESES), through collaboration, empowerment, and knowledge sharing within your technical expertise on projects
• Contributes to new sales and additional sales, through assisting Project Managers and senior management team, by helping to prepare bids
• Is visible both when it comes to profiling projects and branding Ramboll
• Has a solid network with external partners and builds a good internal network.
• Very good communication skills in English
• Degree in Urban Planning or equivalent
• 15+ years of experience in urban Planning/Design
• Proven experience working internationally on large scale urban developments

What we can offer you

• Flexible work environment
• Exciting and complex large-scale projects
• Leaders you can count on, guided by our Leadership Principles
• Be valued for the unique person you are
• Never be short of inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
• The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company

Work at the heart of sustainable change

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. We believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act. Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realise their full potential.

Ready to join us?

Please submit your application. Be sure to include all relevant documents including your CV, cover letter, etc.

Deadline: 14/07/2024

Thank you for taking the time to apply! We look forward to receiving your application.

About Ramboll

Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a foundation-owned people company. We have more than 18,000 experts working across our global operations in 35 countries. Our experts are leaders in their fields, developing and delivering innovative solutions in diverse markets including Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, and Management Consulting. We invite you to contribute to a more sustainable future working in an open, collaborative, and empowering company. Combining local experience with global knowledge, we together shape the societies of tomorrow.

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.