Stewardship & Legacy Lead

At Arcadis, we never lose sight of what’s most important. Because we look beyond our projects and programmes and you’ll see it’s about human stories. From remaking public spaces that bring people together, to making cities easier to navigate, we’re focused on making an impact where it matters most – and improving quality of life.

It’s a shared goal amongst 27,000 Arcadians. And one we can only achieve by working together and applying our skills and expertise across design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services. It’s how we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. And how we’ll deliver exceptional results, today and tomorrow.

At Arcadis, you won’t just be transforming the world around you, you will also have the opportunity to reimagine where you could go. Because at Arcadis, careers have no boundaries and you’ll be encouraged to embrace your imagination and curiosity, think big and think differently.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced and motivated person to lead our new workstream for Stewardship& Legacy.  You will be joining our growing team in Landscape, Masterplanning and Urbanism (LMU), consisting of more than 70 Landscape Architects, masterplanners and urban design professionals.  We provide a full spectrum of services, from residential-led masterplanning, urban regeneration, strategic planning, design concept through to detail and implementation as well as Environmental Assessment, and Landscape/ Townscape Visual impact Assessment.  

You will have a strong focus on integrating legacy thinking into our wide-spectrum of projects.  This will include client advice and technical contributions on stewardship models, governance, funding, adoptions, the optimal land management and maintenance of green spaces, public realm and the establishment and stewardship of new and existing habitats, to bring environmental, social, cultural and economic benefit.  You will also have the opportunity to contribute to business development in landscape management and environmental stewardship, for example, to prevent environmental damage and harm to wildlife through careful management of the developments and use of a region’s land resources, and to positively contribute toward net zero carbon goals.

We invite candidates with a passion to grow this workstream and therefore you will have good business development credentials and bring drive and innovation to establish and expand the opportunity.  Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams including our in-house disciplines as well as our sector-leading external partners will be important.  You’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s largest, most complex and technically demanding projects.  These currently include major large-scale mixed-use masterplans, masterplanning for new homes, city centre public realm, regeneration projects, green infrastructure strategies and landscape masterplanning for some of the UK’s largest residential and mixed-use developments as well as significant infrastructure projects such as:

• Northstowe Masterplan / Urban extension
• Otterpool Park Garden Settlement
• HS2 Curzon Street Station & Public Realm
• Perry Barr Regeneration Development
• Walsall town centre regeneration projects
• Town Investment Fund and Levelling Up Fund LPA support
• Canal and River Trust projects
• National Rail, National Grid and transport and infrastructure projects

However, not all of our projects are large scale.  We have equally exciting smaller projects and, together, present a rich and varied portfolio of projects and clients including at national and local levels, and in both the private and public sector.  

Location

Our Landscape Masterplanning and Urbanism team operates across a number of key locations within the UK (and overseas).  We have a flexible approach to the location of this new role and are open to applications across UK geographies.

Requirements

Key Characteristics:

• Team leader shaping and delivering exceptional outcomes. Focus on Development Planning, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture
• Trusted client advisor – experienced in building relationships with Senior Client Team members.  Able to understand their needs and drivers, ability to shape and influence outcomes
• Sector experience in infrastructure, commercial development, urban regeneration, residential, transportation and/or landscape planning strategic policy
• Highly capable and crafted experience in successful high-quality bid writing, ability to influence the business with developing relevant communities of Practice and further Value Propositions
• Experienced Line Manager, ability to manage with proactive dialogue encompassing staff wellbeing and personal development. Understanding of staff professional development needs and career pathway.  

Qualifications:

• Degree / Diploma or similar recognised qualification in Landscape Management (e.g. Sheffield University), environmental stewardship, natural resource management, forestry, botany, environmental science, restoration ecology, wildlife management, soil science, place economics, and sustainable land management, or closely related subject.
• Chartered membership with relevant Institute / body. E.g. Landscape Institute

Core Skills / Experience:

• Service leadership in land management and place stewardship
• Understanding/experience of best practice guidance, planning, and legislative framework for:

      ·     Stewardship Strategies incl. models, governance, funding and revenue opportunities

       ·     Design advice relating to stewardship and placemaking legacy

       ·     Landscape Management Plans

       ·     Landscape Maintenance Contracts

       ·     Business development skills and client-facing experience

       ·     Landscape Condition Surveys

       ·     Greenspace Strategies

       ·     Public Realm and the built environment management advice

       ·     Maintenance of green and blue infrastructure

       ·     Options for stewardship models

       ·     Food security and agricultural diversity e.g. rewilding,  environmental stewardship, urban farming, etc

       ·     Largescale landscape planning and management

       ·     Lifecycle assessment of materials and replacement cycles to inform design choices

       ·     Landscape and Visual Assessment

       ·     Legacy adoptions relating to designed assets e.g. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems(SUDS)

       ·     LEMPs

• Undertake landscape management projects in the fields of parks and open spaces, business parks, residential areas, urban regeneration and environmental improvements
• Understanding of environmental and sustainability issues and technical procedures
• Awareness of local, national and international environmental policy and planning policy relating to stewardship and landscape management
•  A high level of verbal and written communication skills, including presentations and report writing
• Well organised to ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget
• Experience/understanding of consultation with a range of stakeholders using a variety of techniques
• Leading and supporting on projects shaping and delivering exceptional outcomes for clients.
• Experience in working with local authorities, private landowners and government agencies such as Homes England, Natural England, Historic England, Highways England, Environment Agency, Natural Resource Wales, agri-food companies, agricultural producers, environmental protection organisations, farm business advisory services, government departments on all levels, land appraisal firms, land reclamation companies, oil and gas companies   

Desirable Skills / Experience:

• Maintain current knowledge of pertinent legislation and land use regulations
• Design and implement ways to improve the land with minimal environmental impact
• Design, implement and evaluate programmes to sustain the land and its wildlife
• Trusted client advisor – experienced in building relationships with Senior Client Team members, internally and externally.  Able to understand their needs and drivers, ability to shape and influence outcomes
• Production, tendering and implementation of management contracts and occasionally landscape design contracts
• Completion of site surveys and inventories and produce lifecycle costings
• Managing projects according to Quality, Environmental and H&S procedures
• Experienced in supporting the production of masterplan documents, design/development briefs, design codes and design and access statements
• Ability to lead by example working on multi-disciplinary regeneration/masterplanning projects, ideally within a consultancy environment
• Ability to work within commercial constraints to provide output on budget and programme
• Experience in successful high-quality bid writing, ability to influence the business with developing relevant communities of Practice and further Value Propositions
• Skilled communicator with experience of attending and facilitating stakeholder and community consultation as well as networking events
• Clean UK driving licence 

Why Arcadis?

At Arcadis, you’ll have the opportunity to build the career that’s right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first ’business, it’s why we’ll take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions. Wherever you join us, you can look forward to a competitive reward package that includes an attractive starting salary, opportunities for career development and being part of a sociable community. We have a performance-related bonus scheme and an employee recognition scheme. Other benefits include membership fees to join your relevant professional body, employer contribution pension scheme, flexible working and a flexible holiday scheme.

We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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