Job Description

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The University of Ottawa\xe2\x80\x94A crossroads of cultures and ideas

The University of Ottawa is home to a dynamic community of over 50,000 students, faculty and staff, who live, work and study in both French and English. Our campus is a crossroad of cultures and ideas, where bold minds come together to inspire game-changing ideas. We believe in the power of representation, and that increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff supports this objective. Our goal is to provide students with the best possible learning experience, in an environment that reflects the diversity of its people, their ideas, and their identities.

We are one of Canada\xe2\x80\x99s top 10 research universities\xe2\x80\x94our professors and researchers explore new approaches to today\xe2\x80\x99s challenges. One of a handful of Canadian universities ranked among the top 200 in the world, we attract exceptional thinkers and welcome diverse perspectives from across the globe. Our employees come together around the shared purpose of constant improvement, personal development, service excellence, teamwork and a passion for learning with a desire to make uOttawa and the world a better place. Everyone\'s contributions are valued, we all play a part in making uOttawa a world-class institution. Most importantly, we make it possible for you to achieve your full potential. Because at uOttawa, you belong!

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About Facilities

Facilities services are characterized by a dynamic and creative growing team where the winds of change are blowing, offering people like you opportunities to use your leadership and innovation skills to contribute to the achievement of their inspiring mission: to deliver best in class research infrastructure, reshape campus life and student experience, and provide a sustainable environment for students, researchers, teachers and community.

Position purpose:
Reporting to the Director, Campus design and sustainability, in collaboration with the Planning Team, the individual provides support in planning a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces required by the University, through inception to project closure. The main objective is to support the development of options analysis for a variety of stakeholders, in order to meet the needs of users (faculties, services, public), while respecting the guidelines associated with the values and mission of the University of Ottawa. The individual will also participates in tactical planning activities which provides immediate and short-term solutions while ensuring it is incorporated into the larger-scale vision of strategic planning.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:
Support the development of requirements for faculties, services, and researchers in order to meet their space allocation needs by conducting space audits, collating information, conducting site visits, and preparing user requirements and project brief documents as part of gates 1 and 2 of the project development process.

Participate and engage with faculties and services to gain a better understanding of their short and medium term vision and functional space issues by scheduling and providing secretariat functions for committee meetings. Depending on the needs and preferences of the faculties or services, the Junior Planner may be called upon to support the Planner to conceptualize new ideas and present proposed options.

Support the development of feasibility studies and architectural programming studies in order to assess and/or develop solutions to meet the objectives of optimizing and modernizing the teaching, research and learning spaces of the faculties and services by preparing preliminary concept design renderings and options presentations.

Perform research and technical work to ensure the development for a variety of projects.

Participate in the preparation of updating and prioritizing a five-year renovation and construction program to meet University goals and strategies by providing studies and materials.

Respond to requests for information concerning the inventory of existing spaces in support of academic or other planning for university clients.

Participate in the development, verification and maintenance of the computerized real estate management system database (including the function of spaces, occupants, room numbers, etc.) in order to keep the information up to date and in support for analyzes and reports required by the University.

Support the analysis of performance data of classroom facilities, administrative space, student space and services in relation to University standards in order to ensure optimal use of physical resources of the university, which are very expensive.

What you will bring:
Knowledge of architecture, or planning, engineering, or interior design, or town planning, normally acquired through university or college training, and minimum of 2 years of experience in a field related to the position.

Knowledge and experience in architectural programming.

Knowledge and experience in project planning and development.

Knowledge and experience in the use of CAD and other urban design/planning software.

Experience in space management.

Experience in analyzing complex data.

Experience in interpreting, explaining and applying policies, standards and procedures.

Experience and aptitude in negotiations and conflict resolution and in interpersonal relationships.

Analytical mind and aptitude for synthesis.

Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.

Bilingualism - French and English (spoken and written).

Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realise an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.

Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.

Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.

Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

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