DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Planning Projections / Demographic Expert to join DLR Group, with a focus on our public practices, including Justice + Civic, Higher Education, and K-12 Education market sectors. In this role, you will lead data analysis and forecasting efforts that inform facility planning through evidence-based population projections, demographic analysis, and caseload forecasting solutions.
About DLR Group’s Justice + Civic & Education Market Sectors
As a nationally recognized expert in Justice + Civic facility planning and design, DLR Group serves municipal, county, state, and federal public-sector clients to deliver civic, public safety, and justice design solutions that achieve excellence in operations, sustainable design, resilience planning, space planning, building assessment, cost of ownership analysis, and project management. Our Higher Education and K-12 Education practices transform the educational landscape by designing spaces emphasizing academic learning, social development, and community engagement. Drawing from evidence-based design principles across all our studios, we work with stakeholders to enhance student and teacher engagement while navigating technological, social, and cultural changes. Population projection and demographic analysis are growing specialties in our portfolio. As stewards of the built environment, DLR Group elevates behavioral, environmental, and social betterment, resulting in healing, equity, and transformation for individuals and communities through thoughtfully designed spaces.
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DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.