Healthcare Planning Lead

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At Jacobs, we're not just building facilities, we're helping healthcare organizations shape the future of patient care through innovative planning, design, and infrastructure solutions. As a Healthcare Planning Lead, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to healthcare executives, clinical leaders, and governing boards, guiding strategic decisions that influence the future of major healthcare campuses and facilities.

In this role, you'll lead the development of decision-ready planning strategies that support long‑term healthcare facility and capital investment initiatives. You'll evaluate complex facility, operational, financial, and campus development considerations, helping clients assess future‑state options and align stakeholders around a shared vision. Your leadership will directly support informed decision‑making, organizational growth, operational excellence, and enhanced patient care outcomes.

• Lead strategic healthcare planning initiatives, including campus master plans, redevelopment studies, facility replacement evaluations, and feasibility studies.
• Develop comprehensive analyses to support long‑range healthcare facility and capital planning decisions.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams performing facility assessments, operational analyses, medical planning, site evaluations, and campus planning activities.
• Evaluate alternative campus development, modernization, renovation, and replacement strategies.
• Lead development of implementation roadmaps, enabling project strategies, and capital investment recommendations.
• Oversee order‑of‑magnitude cost modeling, escalation forecasting, and planning‑level financial analyses.
• Facilitate executive‑level discussions regarding healthcare infrastructure investments and future facility strategies.
• Provide strategic guidance to hospital executives, physicians, facilities leaders, and governing boards.
• Assess operational, regulatory, clinical, facility, and financial impacts associated with planning alternatives.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, consultants, healthcare leaders, and community stakeholders to develop objective recommendations.
• Build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups and support alignment around strategic planning objectives.
• Prepare and present executive‑and Board‑level planning documents, analyses, and recommendations.
• Translate complex operational, facility, and capital planning considerations into actionable business and infrastructure strategies.
• Support healthcare organizations in evaluating long‑term growth, capacity, and service delivery needs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture.
• Minimum of 20 years of experience in healthcare planning, healthcare architecture, strategic consulting, or healthcare facility development.
• Demonstrated experience leading healthcare master plans, campus redevelopment studies, feasibility studies, facility replacement evaluations, and strategic healthcare planning initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare operations, facility assessment methodologies, medical planning, site selection, healthcare market dynamics, regulatory processes, capital planning, and healthcare campus development.
• Experience advising executive leadership teams, governing boards, and physician leaders on complex healthcare planning and facility development decisions.
• Proven experience supporting major academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, cancer centers, teaching…