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URBED Job Vacancy
Wednesday 12th October, 2011
We are looking to recruit a Sustainable Urbanist to join our team of urban designers, planners and architects.
We are looking to recruit an urbanist / designer to join our team of urban designers, planners, architects and sustainable urbanists. As a design led practice we are looking for an individual with excellent design and visual communication skills. The role will involve working on a wide variety of projects ranging in scale from regional visions and strategies to individual sites. Good research and analytical skills will be needed along with a willingness to actively participate in hands on community workshops. The individual will have a wider interest in, and be able to demonstrate a commitment to, sustainable design and community engagement in their work and studies.
REQUIREMENTS//
Academic Qualififcations: Postgraduate qualification in the Built Environment or Environmental Science, Architecture, Engineering or equivalent.
Professional Experience: 1-2 years professional experience working in the field of sustainability in the built environment.
Key Skills:
- Strong research, analytical and evaluation skills
- Excellent written communication skills
- Broad understanding of the built environment and sustainability
- Good verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Self-motivated idividual capable of working independantly
- Good time management skills and the ability to work to multiple deadlines
- Willingness to contribute to the broader work of the cooperative
- Up-to-date technical and policy knowledge of sustainability in the built environment
- Ability to contribute effectively to multi-disciplinary project teams
Desirable Skills:
- Experience of energy and environmental modelling or willingness to learn about this.
- Experience of working with GIS
- Workshop facilitation experience.
- Interest in working with communities
JOB INFO//
Location: The position will be based at our office located in the Northern Quarter, Manchester.
Salary: Consultant Level (£18,200 - £26,400) Salary dependant on experience
Equal Opportunities: URBED are an equal opportunities employer. For more info on URBED please visit our website where a copy of all our policies can be downloaded.
If you are interested in applying for the post please email a copy of your CV along with a digital portfolio (or link to online portfolio to) to Lavinia Leader at info@urbed.coop. Please include the following reference at the start of the email subject: JOB/URBANIST//{email title}. All emails should be no larger than 7mb. Alternatively please post your application to:
Lavinia Leader
URBED
5th Floor
10 Little Lever Street
Manchester
M1 1HR
Closing Date for Application: The closing date for applications is 5.00pm on Friday 17.06.2011.