Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.
Practice Overview:
Our team advises the nation's leading health systems on their most critical capital and real estate investments. We help leaders mitigate risk and execute complex projects, from planning and design to financing and activation. Our work ensures our clients can deliver the right care, in the right place, at the right cost, directly impacting patient experience and population health.
Role Overview:
The Healthcare Architectural Planner is responsible for planning, programming, and developing healthcare environments that support clinical excellence, operational efficiency, patient-centered care, and long-term strategic growth. This role serves as a critical link between healthcare operations, strategic planning, facility investments, and capital project implementation The planner collaborates with health system leadership, the internal project team, and consultants to translate organizational objectives into effective, adaptable healthcare facilities.
The ideal candidate possesses strong healthcare planning, programming, and design experience, combined with the analytical skills necessary to evaluate facility performance, develop conceptual project budgets, and support capital investment decisions.
This is a remote position and location is flexible within the US.
Responsibilities:
Healthcare Planning & Programming
Lead and support strategic facilities master planning through healthcare facility planning and programming.
Conduct space needs assessments, utilization analyses, occupancy studies, and departmental evaluations to determine current and future facility requirements.
Develop functional programs and space allocation recommendations aligned with strategic, operational, and clinical objectives.
Evaluate patient flow, staff workflows, operational processes, and departmental adjacencies to inform planning recommendations.
Prepare planning concepts, adjacency diagrams, stacking plans, and test-fit studies for healthcare facilities.
Facilitate stakeholder workshops, user group meetings, and planning sessions to establish project requirements and priorities.
Strategic Facility Planning
Analyze existing facility conditions and identify opportunities for optimization, expansion, renovation, consolidation, modernization, or redevelopment.
Assess the physical space implications of strategic growth scenarios, service line initiatives, and operational changes.
Evaluate facility deficiencies, capacity constraints, and space utilization to support long-term planning efforts.
Develop conceptual project budgets and order-of-magnitude cost estimates for facility renovations, expansions, new construction, and capital improvement initiatives.
Collaborate with architects, engineers, contractors, and cost consultants to validate assumptions and evaluate planning alternatives through comparative cost analyses.
Support capital planning and investment decision-making by assessing the financial implications of facility planning recommendations and implementation strategies.
Support development of business cases for capital investments, including financial, operational, and strategic analyses.
Participate in capital prioritization and portfolio planning efforts across client’s portfolio of assets.
Assist healthcare organizations in prioritizing capital investments based on operational needs, strategic objectives, facility conditions, and financial constraints.
Capital Project Implementation
Support strategic facility planning efforts from concept development through business case evaluation and project initiation.
Collaborate with project teams throughout planning, design, and construction phases.
Review design solutions to ensure alignment with clinical workflows, operational objectives, strategic goals, and industry best practices.
Provide guidance regarding healthcare design standards,, patient experience, and operational efficiency.
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