Graduate Landscape Architect / Assistant Landscape Architect

About the Prince’s Foundation

The Prince’s Foundation (The Foundation) is a charity established by the former Prince of Wales that aims to transform lives by helping to build harmonious and enduring communities. Key among the activities of The Foundation is a focus on teaching and demonstrating principles of sustainable urban design and architecture that put people and communities at the centre of the design process.

The Foundation is an exciting work environment dedicated to improving the quality of the built environment both within the UK and abroad. It brings together people with expertise across a broad range of disciplines who work collaboratively to deliver high quality social, environmental and economic benefits to established, new or growing communities.

This role would suit a recent landscape architecture graduate interested in sustainable urban development, who recognises the importance of the natural and built environment in the context of climate action; and is looking to build their skill set in the fields of urban design, landscape architecture, project management and coordination, and sustainable place-making.

Location

The post is based at The Foundation’s offices at 19-22 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3SG, a repurposed former warehouse in Shoreditch. This post may also require periodic travel within the UK and internationally.

The Role

The Graduate Landscape Architect / Assistant will be engaged primarily on the design and delivery of a demonstration mixed-use local centre on an international exemplar new town project. There will be opportunity to be involved in other master planning projects and related work. Reporting directly to Leslie Ohomele as project lead and Kim Hitch as project director and working within the Practice Team, the post-holder would hold a variety of responsibilities, including:

• Producing detailed landscape design packages incorporating both soft and hard landscape elements, materials and finishes. Producing detailed material and plant specifications.
• Assisting with the preparation of regulatory process documentation including design codes and development framework plans.
• Providing support in the preparation of materials for an associated in country educational and training course. This is on an annual cycle and is of one weeks duration but requires preparation time.
• Related support including in-country visits, course material and coordination, Town Architect project administration

It may be possible to balance and tailor the above responsibilities according to the skill-set of the successful applicant, but overall, the role will provide a varied mix of outline and detailed landscape design and production information including specifications, masterplan development, and technical coordination.

Within the office we arrange regular CPD sessions, on topics relevant to ongoing projects and providing continual training and development available to all staff.

Key Tasks

• Producing detailed landscape design packages incorporating soft and hard landscape elements, materials and finishes. These to be a range of drawings including plans and details and 3d images. Producing detailed material and plant specifications.
• Assisting with the preparation of regulatory process documentation. To include desk top publishing.
• Related support including in-country visits, PM Fellowship Course material and coordination, Town Architect project administration
• Assist the Projects Director and team in facilitating project-specific workshops and stakeholder engagement, and collating all outputs for review;
• Whilst this specific role relates to a specific project there may well be opportunity to assist in delivery of other urban design led projects and related workshops and engagement events across the UK. Such activities will include producing and coordinating the required base information for stakeholder engagement workshops and coordinating the logistics for these workshops with the relevant stakeholder groups. It will also include collating and working up the workshop report and any workshop outcome documentation.
• On occasions there may be opportunity to work with or assist other departments within The Foundation including Fundraising, and Education. This may include assisting with research work or teaching / training seminars and conferences.

Person Specification

• Highly organised, and able to prioritise and coordinating multiple and varied inputs within a team context;
• Ability to work collaboratively with others, including people from diverse cultures and backgrounds at all levels;
• Must thrive in a team setting and understand the value of prioritising internal communication with colleagues;
• Proven ability to self-manage and develop options when problem solving;
• Strong oral communication skills;
• Highly efficient administrative and report writing skills;
• Sympathetic understanding of, or ability and willingness to learn, the principles of sustainable urbanism and design of The Prince’s Foundation;
• Willingness to learn programmes and software unfamiliar to the candidate.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Landscape Architecture;
• Demonstrate an understanding and competence at landscape detailing both hard and soft;
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, notably InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop for the creation of event materials and reports;
• Proficient in AutoCAD for the creation of landscape and public realm design and production information for urban design and masterplanning projects.

Desirable

• Demonstrate a related built environment and urban design interest ( either as part of the landscape design course or as part of work experience).
• Demonstrate a proficiency at 3D modelling and rendering using relevant computer programmes such as SketchUp.
• Ability to sketch and draw.

The Foundation works with a wide range of partners, meaning it is inevitable that tasks and responsibilities may change and adapt over the life of a project. All staff are therefore expected to work in a flexible way when the occasion arises, undertaking tasks which are not specifically covered in their Job Description.

Hours of work

Monday - Friday commencing 9.00 am - 5.30 pm with one hour for lunch.

Annual Leave

In addition to public holidays, 22 annual days leave is given, three days of which are normally to be taken between Christmas and New Year.

Salary

Up to £29,000 pa depending upon qualifications and experience.

How to Apply

Please submit the following by email to HR.Recruitment@princes-foundation.org before the application deadline of 22.00 GMT on Friday 16th December 2022:

• A covering letter detailing your interest in, and suitability for, the role;
• A CV (maximum two pages) covering your education and employment experience to date;

Candidates invited for interview will be asked to provide two references.

We are looking to shortlist and interview on the Tuesday 20th December with a view to making an offer on the Wednesday 21st December 2022. Successful candidates for interview will be informed by email on or before the Monday 19th December.

We welcome applications from all interested candidates with the right to work in the United Kingdom. Please note that whilst we will endeavour to notify all applicants of the outcome, if we have a large volume of applicants and you have not heard from us by 20th December 2022, you should assume that we will not be pursuing your application.