Senior Clinical Planner, Correctional Health - Los Angeles, CA

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our co ...

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At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

We believe architecture is more than designing buildings, it's about providing solutions to societal challenges and creating stronger, more vibrant communities. As part of our Architecture practice at HDR, you'll contribute to the design and delivery of spaces and experiences that advance community well-being around the world. From healing environments and learning spaces to research labs and civic landmarks and infrastructure, your work will directly influence how individuals experience the world around them. We bring together architects, planners, designers, and technical experts to solve complex design challenges with creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. From championing design excellence with an emphasis on resilience and sustainability to pioneering innovative building technologies, your contributions will leave a lasting impact on the built environment. This isn't just a job, it's a chance to drive meaningful change and help define the future of our communities.

We are in search of a
Senior Clinical Planner
to join our growing and world-class practice in correctional health design.

Our global Civic and Justice practice provides our clients with informed, insightful, highly creative design solutions that provide for the safety measures for residents and staff, while helping them recover, heal and rehabilitate.

The Correctional Health Clinical Planner will collaborate with the planning professionals in the Civic and Health Planning practices and be responsible for leading all aspects of correctional health planning efforts with our clients. This role is responsible for leading client engagements in: strategic transformation, clinical space programming and planning, lean operational planning, and when necessary, change management and transition and activation planning.

Primary responsibilities:

• Participate as a project team member by:

• Supporting project leadership in all aspects of project planning, coordinating and delivery.

• Discerning and applying industry trends and innovations to strategic and master planning and programming efforts.
• Planning and facilitating stakeholder planning sessions and meeting engagements by anticipating client needs, coordinating meetings with key individuals developing research briefs, data analytics, meeting materials, best practice information, industry standards and benchmark information, and documenting outcomes and key areas for further investigation.
• Developing functional and space programs that can reflect lean operational planning.

• Ensuring the architectural planning team is basing their work on current trends and innovations for health and correctional health market sectors.

• Creation of scholarly thought leadership work, through journal articles, conference presentations, publications and whitepapers

Additional responsibilities:

• Provide leadership for continuous improvement efforts within correctional health planning.
• Liaison between clinical, correctional and administrative clients and HDR's design team.
• Through written and verbal communication, inform internal and external audiences on a variety of topics.
• Engage in the full life cycle of client relationships: relationship development, pursuit strategy, marketing, proposal writing, client project interviews, project planning, project leadership, project execution, post-project thought leadership, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing, Public Administration, Health Care Administration, Psychology or Psychiatry
• 10+ years' experience in correctional health, nursing, allied health, or related experience
• Excellent leadership skills, problem-resolution abilities, proven group facilitation, along with strong written and professional communication skills
• Experience with planning, strategy, process improvement, design and construction of correctional health projects
• Able to effectively work independently and manage multiple tasks with time sensitive deadlines.
• Background in the entire life cycle of a client engagement process – networking, prospecting, opportunity identification, proposal development, project execution, and spreading the message and lessons learned upon project completion
• Computer skills in InDesign and simulation software
• Experience managing interdisciplinary teams to create powerful, effective, and coherent design solutions
• Able to maintain multiple simultaneous projects, working alone or in a team setting
• Ability to interact professionally with clients and design team members
• Ability and willingness to travel to clients and project sites

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or closely related field
• A minimum of 10 years consulting experience and extensive related expertise
• Proficiency with MS Office products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access and Outlook
• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong relationship, organizational and follow-up skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

What We Believe
HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment
As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement. The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.) Pay transparency ranges for Los Angeles $148, ,290; San Francisco $167, ,980; Denver $142, ,060; Chicago $142, ,060; Boston $155, ,520; Pennington $148, ,290; New York $161, ,750; Columbus $129, ,600; Seattle $155, ,520

Primary Location:
United States-Illinois-Chicago

Other Locations:
United States-Arizona-Phoenix, United States-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia, United States-California-San Francisco, United States-Georgia-Atlanta, United States-North Carolina-Charlotte, United States-Missouri-Kansas City, United States-Massachusetts-Boston, United States-Nebraska-Omaha, United States-Colorado-Denver, United States-New Jersey-Pennington, United States-Virginia-Richmond, United States-California-Los Angeles, United States-New York-New York, United States-Minnesota-Minneapolis, United States-North Carolina-Raleigh, United States-Washington-Seattle, United States-Indiana-Indianapolis, United States-Florida-Tampa, United States-Texas-Dallas, United States-California-San Diego, United States-Texas-Houston, United States-Virginia-Arlington, United States-Ohio-Columbus

Industry:
Architecture

Schedule:
Full-time

Employee Status:
Regular

BusinessClass:
Justice ARC

Job Posting:
Feb 20, 2026

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer ). We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.