Master Planning Lead

This position is contingent upon IDIQ contract award and subsequent task-order award(s) and requirements. It is intended to support SHELADIA's pursuit of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), 2026 Worldwide A/E Support Services IDIQ. Employment, assignments, travel, and project responsibilities will be based on the awarded contract and applicable task orders.

The program may support planning, design, construction, facility rehabilitation, system replacement, security upgrades, communications facilities, and building maintenance at Foreign Service posts worldwide and OBO offices in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Services may include professional support services, constructability reviews, critical-path schedule and risk analyses, and project-budget analyses.

The Master Planning Lead will direct strategic facility, campus, infrastructure, and portfolio planning assignments. The successful candidate will translate mission, operational, security, resilience, space, infrastructure, and long-term investment requirements into coordinated and implementable planning strategies for overseas diplomatic facilities. 

• Lead campus, facility, infrastructure, and portfolio-level master planning assignments from data collection through final recommendations.
• Develop site-utilization plans, development scenarios, blocking and stacking studies, space and capacity analyses, phasing plans, and long-range capital improvement strategies.
• Conduct facility assessments, planning studies, feasibility analyses, programming activities, alternatives evaluations, and implementation roadmaps.
• Assess existing conditions, infrastructure capacity, facility performance, mission continuity, development constraints, and future requirements to inform planning recommendations.
• Coordinate architecture, interior design, civil/site, landscape, structural, MEP, security, cost, scheduling, facility-management, and construction disciplines to develop integrated planning solutions.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with OBO stakeholders, facility managers, technical specialists, end users, local consultants, and host-country authorities.
• Integrate U.S. Government requirements with host-country laws, permitting processes, construction practices, and site-specific conditions.
• Prepare and review planning reports, scopes of work, technical memoranda, presentations, cost inputs, schedules, and decision documents.
• Provide quality-control reviews and mentor planning staff to support technical excellence and consistency across assignments.
• Support business development activities, including proposals, interviews, and client presentations as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Bachelor's degree in architecture, planning, urban design, engineering, landscape architecture, or a closely related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in master planning, facility planning, capital planning, or related professional services.
• Demonstrated leadership of at least two major facility, campus, or portfolio master plans.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex multidisciplinary planning assignments or multi-site capital programs.
• Professional registration or certification appropriate to the discipline, such as RA, PE, PLA, or AICP.
• Working knowledge of applicable U.S. laws, codes, standards, and Government facility requirements.
• Strong strategic planning, facilitation, programming, alternatives analysis, capital prioritization, and stakeholder engagement skills. 
• Ability to exercise sound professional judgment in operationally sensitive, diplomatically complex, or high-security environments.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with U.S. Government clients, technical specialists, contractors, local consultants, authorities having jurisdiction, and host-country stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government personnel security clearance when required by the assigned work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in planning, architecture, urban design, engineering, or related field preferred.
• Proficiency with planning, GIS, CADD/BIM, data-visualization, and presentation tools appropriate to the assignment preferred.
• Experience with diplomatic, federal, defense, institutional, campus, mission-critical, or high-security facilities preferred.
• International experience involving host-country authorities, local consultants, permitting, and/or operationally sensitive facilities preferred.
• Experience with facility-condition assessments, portfolio analytics, resiliency, sustainability, and phased implementation preferred.

International and domestic travel is expected and may include short-notice trips to overseas diplomatic facilities and other project locations. Travel requirements may vary based on assigned projects, task orders, and client requirements.

Salary: $115,000–$170,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications. 

Sheladia Associates, Inc. has made the best effort to accurately represent the pay range for this position, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and any applicable cost of living data relevant to the position/candidate.

Other compensation: opportunities for annual increase and bonus, and other types of bonuses .

Sheladia provides employees with the opportunity to work in a diverse, multi-cultural environment with exposure to and collaboration with multiple disciplines on a variety of projects. You will work in a hands-on, collaborative team environment. 

Benefits

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee assistance program

Health Savings Account (HSA; with eligible medical plan enrollment)

Life insurance

Long-term disability

Medical insurance

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Vision insurance 

Our office building provides our employees with plenty of free on-site parking, free access to a fitness center, complete with locker rooms, showers and towel service, a yoga studio/meditation room, lovely outdoor seating and dining area, and next to a community park with walking paths and sports fields.

Sheladia Associates, Inc. does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters/recruitment agencies or utilize any such agency or firm for our recruitment/talent acquisition needs. Please do not solicit candidates or services to any Sheladia employees.