What You Should Bring

You are a licensed planning, design, or engineering professional with 10+ years leading complex building and capital projects from concept to closeout. You bring a strong command of public-sector project delivery, long-range capital planning, and budget stewardship, paired with the ability to guide teams and elevate design and planning standards. You have deep expertise in capital finance, real estate strategy, and the ability to translate complex financial and asset data into actionable plans. You excel at building strong partnerships, advising senior leaders, and communicating clearly with diverse stakeholders, from user agencies and consultants to community members and elected officials. You lead with purpose, fostering a culture of accountability, mentorship, and continuous improvement. Most importantly, you combine technical expertise with strategic thinking, ensuring every project advance sustainability, community impact, and long-term facility stewardship for the City.

The Opportunity – Examples of Work

• Support the Assistant Director to lead long-range capital facilities planning and prioritize strategies that extend asset lifecycle and optimize taxpayer investment.
• Support the Assistant Director each fiscal year to develop and defend the 10-year Capital Improvement Plan, aligning project priorities with revenue forecasts, debt capacity, asset lifecycle data, and long-term fiscal sustainability. Utilize the City’s asset management system to develop studies, analyze data, and develop project proposals in partnership with real estate team, City planners, facilities portfolio managers, interdepartmental capital cross-teams, and community members.
• Deliver proposals to executive leadership and elected officials, ensuring alignment with adopted fiscal and policy priorities.
• Monitor and report capital program performance, including budget forecasts, cashflow projections, strategic priorities, and risk mitigation actions.
• Directly supervise a team of up to five project managers; provide mentorship and coaching support; establish career pathways, ensure adherence to technical standards, and performance expectations to strengthen team capability.
• Oversee delivery of high-impact capital projects, ensuring cost control, schedule adherence, construction excellence, strong communications with stakeholders, and alignment with Citywide strategic priorities.
• Advise the Assistant Director and senior leadership on capital program risks, opportunities, resource needs, procurement approaches, and vendor performance.
• Collaborate with other Capital team leaders to develop and implement standardized project delivery tools, technical specifications, and performance metrics to enhance consistency, transparency, and quality.
• Uphold the City’s 2021 Workplace Guidelines and ensure adherence across all facilities projects.  Develop and implement facility design and planning standards and specifications in partnership with the DGS Facilities team and Climate Action Office.
• Collaborate with finance, technology, procurement, legal, user agencies, and external partners to streamline processes, accelerate delivery, and mitigate operational disruptions.
• Advance sustainability, energy management, carbon reduction, community equity, and resiliency goals within the CIP portfolio.
• Support and lead community, stakeholder, and elected official communication efforts, ensuring proactive engagement, clear updates, and coordinated decision-making.
• Perform related work as required.