Landscape Director
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About the Role
Parsons is looking for a Landscape Director to provide strategic leadership and program-level oversight for a major public realm development. The role requires driving performance, alignment, and quality across multiple landscape design and delivery packages.
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Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership across the landscape portfolio, setting direction, priorities, and standards
- Lead and integrate multi disciplinary teams, ensuring alignment across design consultants, delivery teams, and internal stakeholders
- Drive performance, accountability, and quality across all landscape packages, ensuring delivery against program milestones
- Act as the senior interface with the client and key stakeholders, representing Parsons in high level engagements
- Establish governance, reporting, and control mechanisms to ensure clarity, consistency, and delivery assurance
- Develop and mentor senior team members, building leadership capability and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or a related discipline
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience, including leadership of large scale landscape or public realm programs
- Proven experience leading large scale landscape or public realm portfolios within complex program or mega projects
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage senior, multi disciplinary teams in high performance environments
- Strong program level perspective, with ability to balance quality, cost, schedule, and risk
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior clients
- Solid understanding of PMO structures, governance frameworks, and program delivery controls
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Job Description
- Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Landscape Director to join our team. This role will provide strategic leadership and program level oversight for one of the world’s most ambitious public realm developments. Operating within the Parsons PMO, the Landscape Director will be accountable for
What You’ll Be Doing
- Provide strategic leadership across the landscape portfolio, setting direction, priorities, and standards aligned with the program vision and objectives
- Lead and integrate multi disciplinary teams, ensuring alignment across design consultants, delivery teams, and internal stakeholders
- Drive performance, accountability, and quality across all landscape packages, ensuring delivery against program milestones
- Act as the senior interface with the client and key stakeholders, representing Parsons in high level engagements and providing solutions oriented leadership
- Establish governance, reporting, and control mechanisms to ensure clarity, consistency, and delivery assurance across the program
- Develop and mentor senior team members, building leadership capability and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
What Required Skills You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or a related discipline
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience, including leadership of large scale landscape or public realm programs
- Proven experience leading large scale landscape or public realm portfolios within complex program or mega projects
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage senior, multi disciplinary teams in high performance environments
- Strong program level perspective, with the ability to balance quality, cost, schedule, and risk across multiple workstreams
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior clients and influencing outcomes in complex environments
- Solid understanding of PMO structures, governance frameworks, and program delivery controls
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring
- Experience delivering major public realm or vision led developments with high visibility and complexity
- Strong change leadership capability, with experience driving organizational improvement within program environments
- Commercial and contractual awareness across consultant and contractor interfaces
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