About Us
Gotham Park is the nonprofit grassroots organization reopening, revitalizing, and reactivating the forgotten spaces under the Manhattan side of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. Working with community partners and New York City agencies, we are creating a new community-led, world-class public space that nurtures connection, resilience, joy, discovery, and wonder.
Role
Gotham Park is seeking a Technical Site Planning Consultant to support the organization’s internal site planning, technical documentation, project coordination, and visual planning needs across its site. This hourly consultant will help Gotham Park document, understand, and plan around existing conditions, infrastructure, utilities, electrical access points, entrances, circulation areas, programming zones, storage needs, site constraints, and other physical conditions.
The consultant will create, update, and organize drawings, site plans, maps, diagrams, and other visual materials that support day-to-day operations, near-term improvements, agency coordination, partner communications, and future capital planning. The role may also include coordination with outside architects, engineers, designers, construction consultants, vendors, and other project partners, as well as support for early project scoping, RFP materials, drawing review, project estimates, and technical materials for City agencies, funders, and external partners.
Scope of Work
Site Documentation and Existing Conditions
- Creating, updating, and maintaining digital drawings, site plans, and an organized documentation library for internal use.
- Documenting existing conditions, including utilities, electrical access, infrastructure, entrances, circulation paths, storage areas, programming zones, and physical constraints.
- Conducting occasional site visits to verify measurements, take photos, and document conditions.
- Transferring existing drawings and materials into current, accessible digital formats.
Drafting, Mapping, and Visual Planning
- Preparing CAD drawings, site plans, diagrams, and visual mockups for internal coordination and external communication.
- Creating clear, polished site plans and visual materials for outward-facing use, including but not limited to, marketing materials, public presentations, partner conversations, agency submissions, and other stakeholder communications.
- Translating rough concepts into clear visual and technical materials.
- Creating layouts for proposed improvements, including signage, utilities, furniture, event infrastructure, art installations, gardening areas, public amenities, and storage.
- Supporting early-stage visual and technical planning for near-term projects, partner activations, and future capital improvements.
Project Coordination and Consultant Support
- Coordinating with architects, engineers, designers, contractors, and other technical partners.
- Assisting with RFPs, scopes of work, and project briefs for outside consultants and vendors.
- Supporting review of drawings and technical materials for consistency with Gotham Park's understanding of the site.
- Tracking project questions, design issues, site constraints, and consultant follow-ups.
- Supporting materials for City agency review (NYC DOT and others), fundraising, grant applications, capital planning, and board or stakeholder presentations.
Minimum Education and Experience
A minimum of 3 years of professional or technical experience in one or more of the following areas is required: architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, urban planning, construction management, technical drafting, site planning, digital modeling, public realm design, infrastructure planning, or a related field. A bachelor's degree is required. A professional license is not required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Preferred candidates should demonstrate some or all of the following:
- Experience creating site plans, technical drawings, digital models, visual mockups, or planning diagrams.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD or comparable drafting software such as Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, or other digital modeling, drafting, mapping, or visualization tools is required.
- Ability to read and interpret site plans, surveys, utility drawings, architectural drawings, engineering drawings, and related technical materials.
- Strong attention to detail and comfort working with evolving site conditions.
- Ability to translate rough ideas, field observations, and internal planning needs into clear visual and technical materials.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to help manage technical files, drawings, notes, and project documentation.
- Ability to coordinate professionally with consultants, vendors, contractors, designers, agency partners, and internal staff.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while coordinating with a small, fast-moving nonprofit team.
- Interest in public space, parks, infrastructure, community development, urban design, civic projects, or adaptive reuse of complex urban spaces.
- Familiarity with New York City public realm projects, agency coordination, construction documentation, or nonprofit capital planning a plus.
Physical Aspects of the Role
This consultant role requires familiarity and comfort with Gotham Park’s local urban environment and the ability to travel to and within the service area below and around the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan. The consultant may be asked to walk the site, take measurements, document existing conditions, photograph site features, attend site walkthroughs, and review physical conditions in an active public space.
Terms
This is a part-time hourly 1099 consultant position with an initial period of six months, with the potential to extend based on the consultant’s performance, project needs, and the organization’s need.
This position is anticipated to require approximately 10 to 20 hours per week, with the possibility of increased hours during active project periods, subject to prior approval. The position includes a combination of remote work, and occasional onsite work at Gotham Park in Lower Manhattan, with hours determined by Gotham Park’s site planning, technical documentation, consultant coordination, and project support needs.
The anticipated hourly rate for this position is $40 to $50 per hour, commensurate with the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and technical skills. Higher rates may be considered for candidates with significant experience in technical drafting, site planning, construction coordination, consultant coordination, public realm projects, agency coordination, or project estimating.
This position will report to the Senior Manager of Plaza Operations and will work closely with Gotham Park’s leadership, operations, planning, and development teams, as well as outside architects, engineers, designers, construction consultants, vendors, agency partners, and other project stakeholders.
Diversity and Inclusion
Gotham Park is committed to developing and maintaining a diverse workforce that reflects the vibrance and diversity of our community. We aim to maximize the potential of all our staff members and volunteers by assuring a culture of competence and respect that is inclusive, free of bias and culturally sensitive. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Create a work climate that is inclusive, free of bias, culturally sensitive and based in competence and respect.
Application Instructions
Please send your resume and a cover letter or brief statement describing your qualifications for and interest in this role to [email protected]. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Pay: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manhattan, NY
