Urban Planner Job

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Urban Planner to join our dynamic team in Dubai. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in shaping the urban landscape by applying planning standards, conducting research, and supporting senior planners in various projects.

• Planning Standards Application: Read, qualify, quantify, and succinctly represent planning standards applicable to projects and integrate these into proposals.

• Regulatory Guidelines: Identify the correct sources of planning regulatory guidelines for different regions or authorities and present key findings to the senior team.

• Documentation Preparation: With oversight from senior planners, prepare and review planning chapters/documents.

• Interdisciplinary Integration: Understand the impact of integrating work from other internal disciplines or external consultants/stakeholders in the design sequence and deliverables output.

• Benchmarking: Identify international and local benchmarks and precedents for further studies and effectively steer reviews as per project requirements.

• Urban Design Writing: Produce fair descriptive writing of urban design principles and guidelines.

• Report Preparation: Prepare basic reports, address key issues, and produce clear and accurate research papers. Contribute to draft sections of reports for review.

• Project Brief Development: Support project managers/associates in developing project briefs to confirm client objectives.

• Data Analysis: Review and understand datasets to correlate population projections against market demands and supply.

• Innovative Approaches: Support the planning team in driving innovative approaches to efficient project delivery, such as improved site analysis assessment or site planning.

• Proposal Development: Contribute to developing methodologies for proposals and assist the bid manager with tasks related to proposals.

• Deputy Project Management: Perform Deputy Project Manager tasks as required.

• Specialty Topics Development: Work with peers and graduates to develop specialty topics/interests in urban planning, such as wellness planning and placemaking.