Senior Clinical Planner, Correctional Health

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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.

• Participate as a project team member by:
  • 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.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Nursing, Public Administration, Health Care Administration, Psychology or Psychiatry
• 10+ years’ experience in correctional health, nursing,…