Urbanism
Environment
Design

info@urbed.coop

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.