Senior Urban Designer at Tatu City Limited

Responsibilities

The Senior Urban Designer role at Tatu City is a unique position that requires a diverse set of design skills, including town-planning, urban design and landscape design skills, to be applied across six new African cities in four countries.
Working under the guidance of the Group Head of Urban Planning and Design, the Senior Urban Designer will be a dynamic urban development professional holding accredited qualifications in architecture, landscape architecture or urban design. The successful candidate will have 8-10 years of demonstrable experience in urban design research, design, implementation and project/programme management.

The specific responsibilities will include;

• Involvement to varying degrees in the urban planning, design and city development processes across six projects.
• Working with the Urban design team to develop new, and evolve current city masterplans based on input from the senior management team and other stakeholders, as well as ensure that the plan is in compliance with local statutory legislation.
• Create key ‘Place Strategy’ documents including but not limited to; Art & Culture, Sport & Recreation, Health & Wellbeing, Education & Training, Retail & Commercial, Community & Residential, Open Space & Public Realm.
• Prepare detailed CAD-based Physical plans, Precinct Plans, and neighborhood plans, as well as physical layout plans for yield projections of residential, commercial, institutional, recreational and light industrial areas.
• Prepare key strategic documents such as Urban Design Frameworks (UDFs)
• Assist in the development of street design guidelines (place-making, coordination of services, landscape and vehicular movement, junction design and urban furniture), as well as built-form design guidelines (setbacks, height, massing, access points, materiality.)
• Involvement in the creation of policies for managing landscaping, traffic movement and integrating sustainability measures
• Assist the DCC by providing professional input in matters of urban planning and ensure associated master plan and land use zoning compliance.
• Collaborate with the landscape team to develop master plans for indigenous landscapes and streetscapes that define the cities as Kenyan, Nigerian, Ghanaian Congolese, and also in line with sustainable, climate-responsive international best practices.
• Deliver in-house, and manage outsourced design proposals for the cities such as parks, nature trails and urban squares.

REQUIREMENTS

Hard skills and experience:

• Master’s Degree in Architecture, Landscape Architecture or Urban Design
• 8-10 years of demonstrable experience in urban design and development work
• Exposure to work on large-scale and international projects
• Demonstrable creative design capacity using different tools and media from sketching, CAD, illustrator (Adobe Suite) and post-production software.
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Hands-on experience in delivering public realm projects.