Senior Manager, Planning Project

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Senior Manager, Planning Project

Job Description Summary:

Provide planning expertise in order to lead and/or support master, program, and project planning efforts. Provide input on the planning strategies, designs, and standards that impact all scales of campus projects. The Planning Project Manager is a professional team leader with 5+ years of professional experience in the planning field, preferably with experience as an owner’s representative in an institutional setting. He or she is actively working towards growing as an organizational and client leader.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Responsible for directing and managing project planning and feasibility studies to develop capital projects by establishing project scope, schedule, budget for concurrent multiple projects. Support plans with input on the technical, financial, operational, and aesthetic impact of projects.  
• Lead client facing initiatives in the programming and conceptual design phases of projects.
• Interprets and applies planning standards, principles, policies and procedures, practices, codes, federal, state and local applicable laws, codes, rules, regulations.
• Researches, collects and analyzes data; identifies critical issues; develops and applies assessment and prioritization criteria. Proposes actions/strategies.
• Prepares written reports, memorandums and presentation materials.
• Delivers oral presentations to internal and external audiences. Requires development of text, tables, spreadsheets, graphics, maps, databases and other aids necessary for effective communication.
• Manages planning projects by coordinating intra and inter-departmental teams.
• Monitors relevant issues and events related to community development and regional planning.
• Coordinate with other ACC departments on project needs/requirements to develop holistically planned projects.
• Manage integration of campus goals into District Wide and Campus specific Master Plan development.
• Schedule and forecast multiple complex projects or a program of projects for maximum project execution.
• Actively seek new knowledge in the design and planning of education spaces for learning/teaching and providing student services
• Conduct learning sessions for ACC staff to broaden staff knowledge in area of expertise
• Other related functions as assigned
• Stays current with building codes, building materials and methods, and College design guidelines and construction standards.
• May serve on committees and task forces.
• May represent department at College events.

Knowledge

• Planning, architecture, engineering, and construction management.
• Project planning and management principles.
• Budget and schedule preparation.
• Regulations regarding accessibility and hazardous materials found in buildin