Urban Designer

Firm: Community Design + Architecture (CD+A)
Location:
Oakland

Payment: Paid
Category: Other
Contact: Phil Erickson
jobs@community-design.com

Posted: May 16, 2019

Are you interested in helping shape projects that significantly improve urban environments? Are you passionate about enabling communities to achieve a more sustainable and equitable future? Community Design + Architecture (CD+A) is looking for a uniquely thoughtful, talented, and enthusiastic Urban Designer to join our team.

We need a skilled designer with interest ranging from policy development to getting projects built. Someone who is experienced in working at various scales ranging from the details of streetscape, public open space, and transit facility design to sustainable complete and green streets, urban revitalization of corridors and districts, and regional transportation and land use projects. You will also have the opportunity to grow personally and professionally as part of the CD+A team.
We are a small multi-disciplinary urban design firm in downtown Oakland, California with a regional and national practice focusing on land use/transportation design, and landscape architecture. We are an established national leader in smart growth, green sustainable infrastructure and complete streets, and corridor and district revitalization. Our projects are rooted in a commitment to using community-based design and planning processes to create projects that improve urban environments and making them more vital, sustainable, equitable, and enjoyable.
We attract a wide range of projects, which currently includes: redesign of major multimodal corridors in the East Bay and Santa Clara Valley; design and implementation support to community groups for Oakland’s “Paint the Town!” street mural pilot program; design, permitting, and installation of 13th Street Commons pavement to plaza project; construction administration support for East Bay BRT streetscape implementation; community outreach and urban design for AC Transit’s Telegraph Rapid improvements, and a range of green infrastructure policy and design guidance efforts in the Bay Area.
Award-winning projects include San Francisco’s Better Streets Plan, Valley Metro Light Rail TOD guidance and implementation strategy, and the circulation and open space element of Santa Monica’s Bergamot Area Plan.
Visit www.community-design.com to learn more about us.


Required Experience and Qualifications:
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, geography or sustainability, architecture or a related field and 2 years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency in the use of AutoCAD in the design of public spaces and complete streets, and developing construction drawings;
• Experience in developing Sketch-Up models for streetscape and complete streets projects;
• Proficiency with basic spatial analytics and ArcGIS (experience with spatial data visualization on Google Earth/Google Map, QGIS, OSM and other visualization software is a plus);
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite;
• Experience working with the Adobe suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat), and other graphic tools, including hand drawing, to develop before and after visualizations and other presentation graphics of proposed street, public space, and urban development;
• Research of land use, complete streets, urban interventions, and urban design policy and design;
• Experience in a team environment, as well as working individually to produce work products; community engagement, and;
• Have a strong desire to plan and design sustainable and connected streets, public spaces, communities, cities, and regions.
CD+A is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be authorized to work without sponsorship.
Salary for the position is dependent upon qualifications.
To Apply:
Please attach a resume and cover letter (with a contact telephone number) outlining how your experience, interests, and projects align with the requirements for the position, in either a Word or PDF document and email it to jobs@community-design.com, with the subject line “For Urban Designer Position 0519”. Please also either include a link to your on-line portfolio or attach portfolio examples in PDF format no greater than 5.0 MB. No phone calls please.