Senior Campus Planner

Posted: 10/17/25
Deadline: 12/31/25
Salary: $103,000 - $113,000
Reference Number: 001649SR

About This Organization

Harvard University

Job Duties

Harvard University Planning and Design (HUPAD) seeks a highly skilled and experienced Senior Campus Planner to join HUPAD’s Campus Planning (CP) team, focusing on planning for the academic campus in Allston, Cambridge, and the Longwood Medical Area. Under the supervision of the Director of Planning Services, Campus Planning, the successful candidate will oversee planning projects and provide services in support of the University’s physical growth and development needs. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong interpersonal and project management skills and a deep understanding of physical planning principles.

Responsibilities

The Senior Campus Planner engages in all aspects of HUPAD’s planning and project work, including physical planning, regulatory approvals, historic preservation, accessibility, space planning, housing, transportation, sustainability, land use, development controls, and community engagement. Key responsibilities are outlined below. Additional duties may be assigned, as needed.

Campus Planning and Development:

• Oversee planning projects, including managing studies and projects associated with University-wide physical planning.
• Prepare and undertake regulatory analyses, research, collect data, synthesize findings, and prepare reports, maps/graphics, and presentations for internal and external audiences and decision makers.
• Support internal and external planning and project efforts, meetings, and coordination with consultants, including preparing materials, documenting decisions, and monitoring status and next steps

Project Management:

• Project manage planning initiatives, including management of schedule, budget, deliverables, internal and external engagement, and consultant contracts.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.
• Facilitate communication between project teams, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Oversee the preparation and implementation of project scopes, budgets, and schedules.

Development Approval:

• Work with public officials and consultants as well as internal and external committees on complex and sensitive planning issues and projects.
• Coordinate regulatory and permitting efforts to obtain public approvals to support University, faculty, and project-specific needs in land use, historic preservation, accessibility, space/planning/programming, housing, transportation, sustainability, and development controls.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with colleagues at the University responsible for permitting, planning, project management, transportation, legal, sustainability, community engagement, and public affairs.
• Collaborate with external partners, including outside legal counsel, planners, designers, engineers, and other consultants.
• Represent the University in public hearings, forums, and committees.

Analysis and Presentation:

• Provide high-quality research and analysis, gather and interpret data, synthesize conclusions into recommendations.
• Produce high-quality work products, including graphic presentations, planning and regulatory documents, public reports, meeting summaries, and memoranda on a range of planning and design topics.

Required Qualifications

Candidates MUST meet the following basic qualifications to be considered for this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in planning or related field required
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in urban planning, campus planning, or a related field; advanced degree may count toward years of experience.

Salary

$103,000 - $113,000

Other Info

Please use this link to review the full job description, details, and apply: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUniversity/3743990009901196-senior-campus-planner

Required Application Materials

Qualified and interested applicants must provide the following: Cover letter Resume Sample presentation or report representative of the applicant’s work