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Orlando, Florida, United States
Onsite
DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.
We are seeking a strategic and entrepreneurial Higher Education Business Development Leader based in Orlando to grow DLR Group’s Higher Education practice. This individual will shape and execute a growth strategy, partnering with Southeast leaders, local studios, and integrated design teams. You will build relationships with colleges and universities, identify opportunities, and position DLR Group to help institutions advance their academic missions.
About Higher Education at DLR Group
DLR Group’s Higher Education practice fully embraces our responsibility to society by designing spaces that emphasize academic learning and social development. We are transforming the educational landscape, working with our clients to set new horizons for learning and living that enrich campus communities, the spaces they strive to provide, and what they can achieve. Our team draws from evidence-based design to work with institutional stakeholders to strengthen student and faculty engagement, ensuring that learning is enhanced through design. We also understand the rapid pace of technological, social, and cultural change; our teams work with colleges and universities to navigate these challenges.
Our work spans campus planning, academic and research environments, student life, libraries, workforce training, arts, and athletics. DLR Group’s Evolution of Campus research also helps institutions plan for changing student needs, including engagement and wellbeing.
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DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.