Senior Clinical Planner, Correctional Health

HDR•Chicago, IL

About The Position

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world? Watch Our Story:' https://www.hdrinc.com/our-story' Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. We believe architecture is more than designing buildings, it’s about providing solutions to societal challenges and creating stronger, more vibrant communities. As part of our Architecture practice at HDR, you’ll contribute to the design and delivery of spaces and experiences that advance community well-being around the world. From healing environments and learning spaces to research labs and civic landmarks and infrastructure, your work will directly influence how individuals experience the world around them. We bring together architects, planners, designers, and technical experts to solve complex design challenges with creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. From championing design excellence with an emphasis on resilience and sustainability to pioneering innovative building technologies, your contributions will leave a lasting impact on the built environment. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to drive meaningful change and help define the future of our communities. We are in search of a Senior Clinical Planner to join our growing and world-class practice in correctional health design. Our global Civic and Justice practice provides our clients with informed, insightful, highly creative design solutions that provide for the safety measures for residents and staff, while helping them recover, heal and rehabilitate. The Correctional Health Clinical Planner will collaborate with the planning professionals in the Civic and Health Planning practices and be responsible for leading all aspects of correctional health planning efforts with our clients. This role is responsible for leading client engagements in: strategic transformation, clinical space programming and planning, lean operational planning, and when necessary, change management and transition and activation planning.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or closely related field
A minimum of 10 years consulting experience and extensive related expertise
Proficiency with MS Office products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access and Outlook
Excellent interpersonal skills and strong relationship, organizational and follow-up skills
An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Nursing, Public Administration, Health Care Administration, Psychology or Psychiatry
10+ years’ experience in correctional health, nursing, allied health, or related experience
Excellent leadership skills, problem-resolution abilities, proven group facilitation, along with strong written and professional communication skills
Experience with planning, strategy, process improvement, design and construction of correctional health projects
Able to effectively work independently and manage multiple tasks with time sensitive deadlines.
Background in the entire life cycle of a client engagement process – networking, prospecting, opportunity identification, proposal development, project execution, and spreading the message and lessons learned upon project completion
Computer skills in InDesign and simulation software
Experience managing interdisciplinary teams to create powerful, effective, and coherent design solutions
Able to maintain multiple simultaneous projects, working alone or in a team setting
Ability to interact professionally with clients and design team members
Ability and willingness to travel to clients and project sites

Responsibilities

Supporting project leadership in all aspects of project planning, coordinating and delivery.
Discerning and applying industry trends and innovations to strategic and master planning and programming efforts.
Planning and facilitating stakeholder planning sessions and meeting engagements by anticipating client needs, coordinating meetings with key individuals developing research briefs, data analytics, meeting materials, best practice information, industry standards and benchmark information, and documenting outcomes and key areas for further investigation.
Developing functional and space programs that can reflect lean operational planning.
Ensuring the architectural planning team is basing their work on current trends and innovations for health and correctional health market sectors.
Creation of scholarly thought leadership work, through journal articles, conference presentations, publications and whitepapers
Provide leadership for continuous improvement efforts within correctional health planning.
Liaison between clinical, correctional and administrative clients and HDR’s design team.
Through written and verbal communication, inform internal and external audiences on a variety of topics.
Engage in the full life cycle of client relationships: relationship development, pursuit strategy, marketing, proposal writing, client project interviews, project planning, project leadership, project execution, post-project thought leadership, etc.