London, UK
Principal urban design heritage office
at LB Hammersmith and Fulham
LB Hammersmith and Fulham is hiring a principal urban design heritage office to join its team in London.
Salary range: £45,594 – £50,559 per annum.
Work location: 3 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London, W6 8DR
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: permanent
Closing date: 6 March 2022
Interview date: week commencing 14 March 2022
Contact details for an informal discussion: Allan Jones, urban design and heritage team leader on 07717 157101 or via email at [email protected]
At Hammersmith and Fulham, we are ambitious in reforming the council to ensure this is a place for everybody. Within the economy department, we aim to be efficient in everything that we do. We believe our residents deserve a place that is safe, clean and green, with high quality services they can rely on.
We are looking for an urban design/heritage professional to join our busy, dedicated urban design and heritage team.
The borough is proud of its rich culture, history and heritage and at the same time is forward looking, promoting four growth areas where comprehensive regeneration and higher-density development is being encouraged and is coming forward at a pace.
With a great variety of projects and proposals being advanced, we are looking for someone who is passionate and enthusiastic to lead on and champion urban design and heritage, to help shape sustainable development and growth in the borough, and to maximise development opportunities while achieving excellence in placemaking and design quality. You will lead on policy formulation and guidance for design, shape development schemes from the outset and input into planning applications, advise on the design merits of major regeneration projects and initiatives, as well as support the management and delivery of capital projects.
You will use your negotiation skills and good working knowledge of contemporary building construction/design practices to deliver design excellence through to the implementation stage. An eye for detail will be required.
The successful candidate will join a team of committed heritage and design professionals who are dedicated to preserving the best of LBHF’s past whilst at the same time delivering the best possible new development to the benefit of all of our residents and the city as a whole.
Our mission is to be the best council. To do this we need the best people to help build our vision. If you’re looking to develop your career in a fast-paced, professional environment whilst making a difference, then we look forward to hearing from you.
Please refer to the job description for more information.
Role responsibilities
Through the application of a high-level urban design, heritage and other placemaking skills, make a significant contribution to the built environment of the Borough by ensuring that the local distinctiveness and character of the borough is maintained and enhanced through the innovative and practical application of urban design, heritage and landscaping skills through the delivery of high quality design in a range of projects.
You will:
- assist in ensuring that staff in your team are recruited, managed, appraised and developed, and that effective arrangements are made for their training and development so as to meet service and continued professional development needs and to provide equality of opportunity for all employees
- responsibility for delivering urban design, heritage and other placemaking projects within the borough to meet your own performance management and quality targets, supervisory responsibility for specified officers in the team, participate in the delivery of service plan objectives and other service improvements and deputise for the team leader when necessary
- assist in ensuring that services provided by your team are delivered within allocated budgets and opportunities for increasing resources are identified and optimised
- assist in the promotion of customer satisfaction within your team when delivering services
- develop the full range of supervisory and professional skills and knowledge to satisfy the requirements of the post
People values
How we act defines who we are. At the heart of our organisation is a common approach to defining ‘who we are’. We are looking for people who can build this into everything they do.
We are fair
We treat everyone with compassion, dignity and fairness. We value the views and opinion of others, and promote benefits and opportunities for all.
We are caring
We care about our borough and doing things well. We focus on standards and continuous improvement; learning from our mistakes and celebrating success.
We are collaborators
We work together for a better society. We work with our residents, businesses, schools, third sector and others for better outcomes for everyone.
We are driven
We will only settle for the very best. We seek to continually improve and put our residents, customers and businesses at the heart of everything we do.
Recruiting for attitude
Your skills and ability are important however, we recruit as much for attitude as we do experience.
We are looking for people who have the following attributes
Complex problem-solving
The ability to work within a complex system and find simple solutions and outcomes that deliver real change.
Critical thinking
The ability to challenge the norms through evidence-based approaches using both numerical and critical reasoning and thinking. You can rationalise decision-making and form views quickly and soundly from a range of sources.
Creativity
You take approaches that demonstrate how doing things differently and creatively changes the dynamic in situations. You can apply creative solutions that deliver hard outcomes.
People management
You can get the best out of people. You have a coaching-style and drive through a commitment to personal and professional development. You are clear in your expectations and have exceptional feedback from your team about their working environment. You recognise and support people as individuals.
Coordinating with others
You have the knack of working well with others. You have an appreciation of your own presence and approach and can demonstrate how you have developed and continue to develop how you work with others. You can also recognise how others work, think, and feel to get the most out of collaboration.
Emotional intelligence
You have a high degree of self-awareness and self-regulation in a wide range of situations from one-to-one conversations to team and group dynamics. You can recognise motivating factors and demonstrate empathy appropriately applying a wide range of adaptive social skills.
Judgement and decision making
You can take rational and evidence-based decisions and take responsibility for your decisions and actions. Where there is ambiguity or a lack of evidence you can demonstrate the ability to understand the environment and show flexibility in applying your judgement.
Negotiation
You can demonstrate an understanding of the range of skills and techniques required to successfully negotiate with a range of other partners. This includes understanding how to structure and undertake successful negotiation on an organisational-wide level.
Service orientation
You must be unequivocal in your commitment and drive for outstanding service delivery. Both in terms of the quality of products and work delivered as well as the achievement of objectives. You and your team can demonstrate how your overall contribution to the organisation and service delivers to our organisational aims and objectives.
Cognitive flexibility
The ability to recognise the environment in which you work and adapt and shift to this environment to maximise your own personal achievement and lead others in the same approach. Applying cognitive flexibility to situations of significant change and transformation.
Role-specific qualifications
You will have a RTPI accredited postgraduate degree or a postgraduate degree in a subject closely related to urban design or heritage/conservation, and a membership (or working towards membership) of a professional institute closely relevant to spatial planning, urban design or heritage/conservation.
Hammersmith & Fulham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
Corporate equalities employment policy
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies.
To apply, please visit: Principal Urban Design Heritage Office LBHF349251 (newjob.org.uk)
We are a disability confident employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.