Position: Place Making & Movement Analyst Professional (Job Location in Sharma, NEOM)

Reports to: Line Mobility Planning Director

Sector: Land Mobility

Job Location: Sharma, NEOM

Role Purpose:

Develop novel typologies of place making for transit-oriented development and mobility at height in order to drive the establishment of new vertical communities for the Line and embed findings in policy development

Key Accountabilities & Activities:

• Develop and evaluate urban transit interface typologies and place making performances of the Line for vertical communities
• Specify urban interface design guidelines for mobility hub typologies and assess submissions by UP and its consultants (architects, masterplanners, mobility and transport consultants)
• Help specify and develop KPIs for Place Making and user experience metrics such as levels of service, F/L mile facilities and activation, approach safety, way-finding, comfort etc, for new vertical TOCs/ Place making around mobility hubs
• Communicate KPIs & metrics for Place Making and user experience to UP & consultants through briefs and scopes
• Support research into TOC place-based benchmarks and metrics with Manager for Impact Assessment and Predictive Analytics within LM Line Mobility Planning team
• Conduct urban and community impact assessment and forecasting with LM Line Mobility Planning, TOC Manager
• Support the team to manage consultant for Movement-Place-User model (MPU) development

Background, Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years experience on professional projects with focus on urban analytics, network analysis and user-centric movement evaluation with some focus on transit-oriented or transport planning
• Ideally some experience with micro-mobility planning at neighbourhood scale
• Strong place making and masterplanning knowledge
• No coding experience required but sound knowledge about project application and spatial analytics theories, as well as experience with GIS/CAD/ BIM
• independently communicate with stakeholders and suppliers

Qualifications:

• combination of degrees in a built environment subject (architecture, urban design, urban planning) and an evidence-based subject in relation to the built environment (computational design, urban analytics, spatial analytics, mobility modelling etc)
• academic research engagement in field also desirable such as part-time university teaching
• fluency in English

Benefits:

• Free Accommodation.
• Free Laundry and housekeeping.
• Free transportation.
• 2 flights per month domestic round trip.
• 1 Annual Travel Allowance.
• Relocation Flight.
• Free Meals ( breakfast, lunch, dinner ).
• Schooling - 60K SAR per child up to 3 children.
• Bonus 20-30% annual (performance based).
• Savings Plan ( Long-term incentive plan ).
• Medical insurance ( VVIP health coverage), for Employee, Family & Parents.
• Annual Leave 30 working days annual.
• Remote Working 24 working days annual.