Urban Planning Specialist

1 week ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada DIALOG-DESING Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Urban Planning Specialist to join our team at DIALOG-DESIGN. As an Urban Planning Specialist, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our communities through innovative and sustainable urban planning solutions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Participate in all aspects of our planning and urban design practice, from early analysis and visioning to the creation of conceptual and policy directions, and recommendations to implement and realize a diversity of great, complex, urban environments.
  • Support stakeholder engagement on several plans, urban designs, policies, and strategies for both public, community and private clients.
  • Work collaboratively with a cross-disciplinary team of people, engaging a broad constituency of clients, stakeholders, Indigenous communities, and the public.
  • Participate in a broad range of projects: from site specific planning to area wide policy reviews and master plans.
  • Contribute to Transit/TOC planning and campus planning projects.
  • Present at and facilitate stakeholder meetings.
  • A believer in the power of human-centered design and interested in exploring practices to improve DIALOG-DESIGN's user research and engagement methods.
  • Adaptable and comfortable with change. Nimble and able to respond to varying project needs.
  • A self-starter, quick learner with a positive attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit that takes initiative and is proactive.
  • Embody DIALOG-DESIGN's values: collaboration, diversity, aspiration, and optimism.
Requirements
  • Possess 3-10 years of related experience (including educational, volunteer and professional).
  • A graduate of an undergraduate or graduate-level program in urban design, urban planning, urban studies, urban geography, architecture, landscape architecture, or similar.
  • Project Management experience is an asset.
  • Strong oral, analytical, and written communication skills.
  • Some experience using InDesign, Adobe Creative Suite and MS suite skills.
  • Demonstrated experience in participating in/ facilitating creative, innovative, and accessible stakeholder and/or public engagement.
  • Able to harness your compelling written, graphic, and spoken skills to communicate design, program, and policy.
  • Highly organized – you enjoy bringing order to complexity and have acute attention to detail.
  • Understanding and exposure to Ontario Planning Framework. Any experience with this is an asset.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Strong abilities in graphic representation (e.g. visualizations and diagrams).
  • Experience with 2D and 3D modeling software (e.g. AutoCAD and/or Sketchup).
  • Experience with Rhino, Revit, Lumion, Enscape and other parametric/rendering software.
About DIALOG-DESIGN

We are a multi-disciplinary collaborative of architects, interior designers, urban designers and planners, structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, and landscape architects who design for community wellbeing and urban vibrancy. We are a fun-loving bunch of big thinkers and do-gooders, who are collaborative in our approach, diverse in our perspectives, aspirational in our pursuits, and optimistic about what's next.

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