London, UK
Assistant landscape architect
at Gustafson Porter + Bowman
Gustafson Porter + Bowman is seeking an assistant landscape architect to join its team in London.
Gustafson Porter + Bowman is an award-winning leading landscape architecture practice which has received public acclaim for creating engaging and beautiful spaces around the world. We are one of the founding signatories of the Landscape Architects Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency programme. This programme is both a public declaration of our planet’s environmental crisis and a commitment to take positive action in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.
We are looking for an assistant landscape architect with at least one years’ post-graduate professional experience to join our friendly, hard-working, and collaborative team.
Assistant landscape architects at our practice assist in performing landscape architect duties from inception to completion, with the support and guidance of their senior colleagues. They contribute to design development, as well as assisting with the co-ordination of information within the practice and with external consultants.
Applicants should have the following skills and experience:
- degree in landscape architecture (BA plus postgrad diploma or MA)/architecture (with experience in landscape architecture)
- at least one year postgraduate professional experience
- ability to undertake assistant duties to a high standard and client expectations
- ability to manage own workload efficiently, and confidence to seek help from others when required
- ability to check and correct own work before passing on to seniors as completed and for their review
- ability to use landscape related software and corporate software applications to a very high standard including AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite and Rhino. Revit knowledge an advantage
- excellent English language skills, both written and spoken
- excellent professional written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills
- ability to work as part of a project team contributing creative solutions and taking direction from partners, associates, senior landscape architects or landscape architects
- commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity in all working practices
- enthusiastic, flexible, diligent, dedicated and eager to learn
In return, we offer a collaborative, stimulating and inspiring working environment from our studio near Camden Town in London, with a regular CPD schedule, design review sessions, and the opportunity to work on prestigious projects in the UK and worldwide, ensuring an extensive and diverse career experience. We offer our staff hybrid working and TOIL, a company pension, annual training allowances, financial support and study leave for advancing professional qualifications, a cycle scheme and tech scheme, and have an active social calendar.
Closing date for applications: 31 July 2022
Start date: immediate
Salary: dependent on experience
How to apply
Please send your CV, cover letter including salary expectations, notice period and work permit status as applicable, and portfolio (not more than 8MB) via the apply for job button below.
Gustafson Porter + Bowman as an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to a policy of treating its employees and applicants equally. No person shall receive less favourable treatment or consideration on the grounds of race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexuality, disability, social class or marital status.
No agencies please.
Please note we are only able to respond to shortlisted candidates.