Campus Planner

Posted: 2/4/26
Deadline: 2/22/26
Salary: Salary or Pay Range: $94,700/yr. - $177,300/yr. (Budgeted salary up to $110,000/yr.
Reference Number: https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucdavis/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=7&JobOpeningId=84041&PostingSeq=1&

About This Organization

University of California, Davis

Job Duties

The Campus Planner (CP) provides professional expertise in campus planning, urban design, and project management to guide the long-term physical development of UC Davis. The planner leads the on-going development and implementation of the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) and Physical Design Framework (PhDF), updates district and neighborhood plans, and develops design guidelines that advance a sustainable, resilient, and high-quality campus environment.

The Campus Planner shapes the campus’s physical form, ensuring it functions as a coherent, welcoming, and easy-to-navigate public realm. Key responsibilities include conducting site suitability analyses, ensuring planning efforts align with major campus planning documents, and integrating planning and urban design principles into all capital project initiatives.

The role involves extensive collaboration within DCM, across the university and with external partners to provide strategic planning in support of campus leadership initiatives. The planner works closely with Design and Construction Management (DCM) staff to promote a resilient, functional, and inspiring campus environment.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture, City Planning, or other planning or environmental related field.

Work Experience: Minimum of three years of experience in campus planning or related fields, or an equivalent combination of education and experience in a higher education environment including preparing planning documents and design guidelines for a university or other similar type of public land owner. Experience developing urban design frameworks and translating planning concepts into real world, physical projects; including planning and designing public space and creating more sustainable landscapes. Experience with quantitative and qualitative analyses and the integration of geospatial analyses into the evaluation of planning scenarios; Experience in creating communication tools with Adobe Creative Suite; general experience with AutoCad and Sketchup.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a diversity of stakeholders including strong verbal, written and visual communication skills to clearly and effectively present planning concepts to large and small audiences. Ability to listen to a diversity of perspectives and synthesize divergent viewpoints into a shared knowledge base. Proficiency with a MS Office, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup and other rendering software.

Salary

Salary or Pay Range: $94,700/yr. - $177,300/yr. (Budgeted salary up to $110,000/yr.

Other Info

https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucdavis/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=7&JobOpeningId=84041&PostingSeq=1&

Robert Pattison
Executive Analyst
rpattison@ucdavis.edu

Required Application Materials

Online application, resume, cover letter