Job Description

The opportunity

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria below, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation. We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

Mace Placemaking, part of Mace Consult is a specialist urban design, architectural and landscape team. We deliver projects nationally for both public and private sectors including government departments, local authorities and private developers. The team is a core part of Mace\xe2\x80\x99s Local Government and Communities business line for the UK and Europe, although there are opportunities to work across the business in the UK and globally. Our work includes town centre frameworks, site development strategies and bringing forward new communities.

The opportunity is for a senior urban design position at Associate Director grade to join their growing business. The role will be part of the Placemaking team and will be involved in its future direction and growth. We welcome applications by a diverse range of people and encourage applicants with non-standard routes to undertaking this role.

Project: This is a strategic hire for the business to set up an urban design team in the Manchester office to support the company\xe2\x80\x99s growth in the north of England. The candidate should have a pipeline of work or strong client relationships to support the teams existing projects and grow the offer. The role will be to lead on multiple public sector projects such as town centre regeneration frameworks and large site master planning with an aim to build a team across our north of England offices, although initially working with the London team to support projects.

The candidate must be a thought leader in design quality with strong interest and evidenced work in addressing the climate and ecological emergencies. This should be evidenced through climate resilient design. They should be able to independently design and communicate large scale master planning comprising mixed use development and with a good understanding of urban and suburban residential development. The candidate should also ideally have an understanding of, and experience in, resident/community engagement. Knowledge of estate regeneration would also be useful.

We expect the candidate to possess high quality graphic capability with excellent report writing using plain English. The candidate much also be aware of the potential for BIM and illustrate embedding it into their work.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working under the Head of Placemaking and working on RIBA stages 0-3 of projects.
• Providing role specific technical expertise in urban regeneration and act as focal point for all technical design related matters on projects.
• Leading in work winning in the north as well as assisting in national and global tendering process by providing technical support to the Mace bid team and where requested fulfil the role of bid lead.
• Managing multiple projects (with or without separate Mace project management).
• Providing client facing experience to manage clients, teams and building a local project team.
• Assisting the Head of Urban Design and the Design Director in the implementation of continuous improvement programmes.
• Seeking out innovative ways of working and identifying research to expand the body of knowledge in the industry.
• Presenting to clients, stakeholders, communities and authorities.
• Interfacing with design teams/designers both within and outside of a specific projects structure.
• Leading continual team knowledge development by managing a programme of CPD/site visits.
• Interfacing with third parties including statutory approving bodies on design related matters.

About you

You have a postgraduate degree in an appropriate design field although non-standard routes to the role are welcomed and have substantial urban regeneration/master planning experience and ideally in Urban Design practice. You are digitally savvy, can build lasting client relationships and lead strong, motivated teams. You will have a construction or project management background and be hungry to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Mace has to offer.

Qualifications

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