Associate - Urban Design

AECOM's Urbanism + Planning studio are currently seeking an innovative and detail-oriented Associate Urban Design to join our dynamic team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As a key member of our urban design department, you will contribute to shaping the future of our rapidly growing city and region.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with senior designers and multidisciplinary teams to develop comprehensive urban design solutions
• Create conceptual designs, master plans, and detailed site plans for various urban development projects
• Assist in the preparation of design guidelines, zoning regulations, and urban design policies
• Lead urban design project deliverables in line with applicable planning authorities' and client requirements. Ensure the compliance of deliverables with the scope of work and contracts.
• Clearly understand the scopes of Architecture, urban design, and Landscape and the synergies and overlaps between them on projects and in the studio.
• Able to develop new urban design and building typologies applicable to projects and sites with conditions. Able to tailor design responses to project-specific conditions.
• Narrate urban design ideas clearly through literature in reports and presentations and guide/mentor direct reports in effective report writing.
• Contribute to and participate in one of the U+P steering committees that promote integration, knowledge sharing, digital integration, or diversity and inclusion.
• Understand bid requirements and be able to support putting together bids' technical approach and methodologies while supporting the delivery structure, coordinating input, and implementing commercial aspects of bids.        
• Supports business development and selling initiatives to expand work assignments, including managing client relationships and expectations.
• Assists with proposals and participates in developing bids and technical write-ups for proposals.
• Leads communication with clients to discuss work scope, requests information to support project execution and receives client comments on draft work products.
• Presents to clients, senior leadership and other project stakeholders to demonstrate progress and clearly explains design principles.
• Responsible for coordinating with the other disciplines to ensure no design gaps and provide fully coordinated design deliverables.