Senior Planner

Kimley-Horn • McKinney, TX

17h

About The Position

Kimley-Horn’s community planning team is growing and has a rewarding opportunity for a motivated Senior Planner. The successful candidate will be a leader in a practice specializing in grants and district support while also growing our community planning and historic preservation practice. This individual will have an entrepreneurial spirit and create a vision for growth for our Land Planning Services practice team while growing their own projects, clients and team around them.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in related discipline
• Business development and marketing experience including writing proposals, scopes of work, and budgeting for projected work
• Ability to effectively communicate positively at all levels of the organization
• Ability to manage & mentor staff, and direct resources effectively in a positive manner
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects profitably

Nice To Haves

• Specializing in grants and district support
• Growing community planning and historic preservation practice
• Entrepreneurial spirit

Responsibilities

• Lead business development efforts
• Develop and manage relationships with key clients
• Oversee all project tasks
• Mentor the growth of younger staff
• Lead, direct, and grow their business
• Pursue opportunities that fuel their professional passion and contribute to firmwide success
• Lead a team while building and managing relationships with key clients
• Operate with integrity and sound business principles
• Provide practice vision, business planning and strategy, establishing goals, building and maintaining positive client relationships
• Open communication with partners and team, along with growing and directing a Community Planning Services practice
• Manage projects profitably
• Transition work to qualified staff
• Grow and mentor staff
• Help recruit
• Be a positive role model
• Meet or exceed client expectations
• Identify and track leads
• Make presentations
• Write proposals and scopes of work
• Establish budgets
• Ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Supervise the execution of work

Benefits

• Bonuses
• Promotions
• Path to ownership recognition
• Other forms of advancement are performance based
• Accounting, administrative, marketing, recruiting, IT and production support will be provided

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees