The position manages complex programs, including implementation of the partnerships and programs identified in the Living Landscape Adaptation Plan (LLAP) to co-create a more resilient campus landscape. The Campus Planner and Urban Designer advances the university’s specific plans for the Davis and Sacramento campuses as well as university-owned health assets throughout the region. The position requires coordination across multiple university departments and units, as well as external partners, providing high-level planning services to university-wide leadership and planning staff. The position is also responsible for the development and interpretation of the Long Range Development Plan for each campus. The Campus Planner and Urban Designer has responsibility for the creation and interpretation of the Physical Design Framework for both Davis and Sacramento campuses, which guide location, scale, and character of campus buildings, public space, and the transportation network.

The Campus Planner and Urban Designer plans for the longterm viability of campus as an interconnected public realm, imbued with a resilient living landscape and framed graciously by architecture. Position intervenes across the entire university including UC Davis Health properties, operating between and across the scales of long-range planning and capital improvement projects striving towards the preservation, enhancement and further development of the campus.

The position contributes as the primary author to the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) and the Physical Design Framework (PhDF) and other planning efforts, and the integration of the urban design framework into project planning. Under the general supervision of the Director of Campus Planning, the Campus Planner and Urban Designer is primarily responsible for physical configuration of campus as a built environment and the stewardship of campus as a welcoming public space network that is navigable and legible to all those who visit.

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