Impact Fellow for Regenerative Design - Vets Hired

This is a vital global strategic design role focused on influencing, elevating, amplifying, and advancing high-performance, sustainable, healthy, regenerative, and equitable design on all projects. This leadership role will work directly with the CEO, Chief Design Officer, Chief Process Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer, Global Sector Directors for Innovation and HUB, firmwide design and technical leadership, DesignGreen team, and subject experts to accelerate and amplify the holistic quality of design solutions. It is project-focused, process-rooted, and outcome-based.

The Impact Fellow for Regenerative Design role is currently anticipated to have a timeframe of 3 years and will have considerable authority and access to firm resources to influence design culture and amplify design impact.

The Impact Fellow for Regenerative Design will develop and implement a global strategy to engage firm, design, and project leadership in a way that enhances design solutions so that outcomes are grounded in systems thinking, creating harmony between the built and natural environments. The needs of all stakeholders are respected. A key measure of success will be to generate, influence, and grow a design ethos that embraces resilience, integration, humility, innovation, sustainability, joy, and abundance intrinsic to relevant, beautiful architectural design solutions in the 21st century.

This design role will exercise independent action in the creation, evaluation, selection, and use of design methodologies, techniques, and building science for integrative processes, technical implementation, and high-performance outcomes to expand and accelerate the design objectives. The Impact Fellow will work with the team to identify barriers and creatively solve problems when encountered. Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of sustainable, high-performance building design principles, practices, and procedures with originality, ingenuity, innovation, impact, inclusion, and an expressive respect for beauty.

Responsibilities:

• Works directly with Director of Integration and coordinates with the CEO, Chief Design Officer, Chief Process Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer, Global Sector Director for Innovation and HUB, firmwide design leadership, the DesignGreen team, and subject experts to accelerate the holistic quality of design solutions.
• Functions as part of the DesignGreen Team within the Innovation Sector.
• Engages Strategic Leadership to identify opportunities, create strategies, and effectively implement design thinking.
• Advocates for a design culture of exploration, curiosity, excellence, continual improvement, and high performance in a way that accelerates holistic design excellence.
• Performs responsibilities to creatively engage project teams as a design leader to create, evaluate, select, and use design methodologies, techniques, and building science for integrative processes, technical implementation, and high-performance outcomes.
• Collaborates in project integrative processes and workshops including team member coordination, research and development, identification of sustainable/high-performance project goals and strategies.
• Identifies key blockers that get in the way of seamless integration of sustainability and resilience principles into project design.
• Successfully guides selected projects toward exemplary outcomes such as net-zero, living building, carbon neutral, ecologically regenerative, and restorative.
• Coordinates technical and analytic needs with DesignGreen, Facades Studio, Technical Resources Group (TRG) services, and Building Engineering Physics.
• Assists in the preparation of proposals for internal and stand-alone external project services.
• Develops and delivers project outcomes that align with strategic firm objectives.
• Engages and supports geographic offices delivering objectives and aligns with design, research, and process enterprise objectives.
• Carries out or assists with specialized research activities.
• Participates in client interactions including the preparation of presentations and, with the project team, presents design concepts.
• Maintains open communication with clients and may provide guidance through projects.
• Maintains awareness of risk management for potential project issues and involves PIC/PM if needed.
• Participates in team meetings.
• May attend on-site visits, field reviews, and project meetings and document as needed.
• Assists in developing and maintaining excellent relationships with existing and potential clients through project work.
• Assists in the production of marketing presentations and in preparing project proposals. Participation in interviews is expected.
• Participates with civic, community, and industry professional organizations with commitment and professional integrity.

Qualifications:

• Strong design portfolio; award-winning architectural design experience is preferred.
• Project experience with high-performance design as demonstrated by verified and published projects.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Accredited professional degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Sustainable Design; advanced degree preferred.
• Professional licensure in architecture or related field preferred.
• Typically, 15+ years of experience.
• Sustainable design accreditation preferred.
• Knowledge of QA/QC and specification processes.
• Knowledge of building codes and ability to research and apply/incorporate into technical documents.
• Ability to maintain existing client relationships and build new client relationships.
• Ability to communicate and present ideas in a clear, concise, and professional manner graphically, verbally, and in writing.
• Ability to problem-solve and apply innovative solutions.
• Ability to work and collaborate in a team environment.
• Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Ability to effectively meet deadlines at expected quality.