London, UK
Associate/senior associate
at We Made That
We Made That is seeking an associate/senior associate to join its team in London.
Are you an experienced architect or urban designer with a desire to deliver impactful and equitable regeneration projects?
Salary range
Associate: £42,500 – £52,500 per annum (plus benefits, including profit share)
Senior associate: £49,500 – £61,500 per annum per annum (plus benefits, including profit share)
Hours
37.5 per week (but open to flexibility for the ideal candidate)
Job role
We Made That is looking for an associate/ senior associate to join our growing team in our London office. We are seeking a candidate capable of leading projects, teams and developing the practice’s approach and values. You will be interested in large masterplanning projects, influential spatial strategies and delivering built projects at a range of scales. You may have particular expertise in industrial intensification, adaptive high streets, cultural infrastructure or healthy neighbourhoods.
As a new team member, you should be ready and fluent at operating at a senior level and work collaboratively alongside the practice partners and as part of the senior management team. You will be driven by wanting to help create equitable places through impactful projects.
Responsibilities and tasks
The ideal candidate will be an experienced associate, familiar with working as part of a senior management team and comfortable in managing their time across projects, staff development, business development and wider practice initiatives. You will be flexible and adaptable, confidently balancing a varied workload and maintaining an appropriate level of involvement on projects. Reporting to the Partners and assisting in setting the strategic direction of the project work and practice, you will be an experienced designer with a wide knowledge of the work stages and processes involved in delivering projects.
Project focused:
- demonstrate a powerful public conscience in pursing project goals and practice aims
- ensure that compliance, technical excellence and the highest quality design are achieved in all of our projects
- you will possess strong communication and negotiation skills and have a detailed understanding of client expectations and motivations, with the ability to handle complex situations
- successfully anticipate issues, propose and implement solutions in an effective and efficient way
- contribute to the analysis and strategic overview of projects
- deliver high profile presentations to clients and stakeholders
- keep abreast of changes to statutory and legislative regulations and disseminate key information in an accurate and accessible way to the team and through project work
- commit to developing our EDI strategies and embed meaningful and sustainable social value in our projects
- deliver design reviews and seek to improve our internal review processes
- develop systems to ensure robust outcomes for delivery of projects
- positively contribute to project development through clear feedback and guidance
Leadership:
- lead a culture of innovation across all practice outcomes and processes
- be passionate about shaping the outputs of the practice, in line with our B Corp status and lead initiatives to maximise our impact
- develop a practice wide culture of excellence in relation to environmental and social impact across projects and internal processes
- act as a mentor and support staff members, inputting meaningfully at crucial project stages
- support a culture of empowerment to balance support and enable autonomy across all levels of the practice
- provide feedback and help to nurture practice-wide knowledge sharing
- be committed to improving technical knowledge and project management skills across the team
- push forward value driven outputs and help to embed the practices ethos and values in everything we do
- actively contribute to conversations around the strategic development of the team, the business and the long-term vision of the practice
- enable optimism and positive performance development across all areas of project work and practice outputs
- represent the practice externally at events, talks and networking opportunities
Competencies, skills and experience
You must be a talented architectural or urban designer, have a wide knowledge of design principles and spatial strategies and with a great eye for presentation. You will have an ability to drive project design development, oversee the project team and through mentorship enable others to understand the strategic direction of our project work.
You will be adaptable and be well versed in working directly with local authority clients and consultant teams. You must possess strong project management skills, be an experienced team leader and perform comfortably in client-facing roles.
Essential:
- have a masters-level qualification in urban design, architecture or similar related subject
- have a proven track record of experience with mixed-use delivery, strategic or master planning experience in the UK for public bodies
- are highly experienced in leading teams, possess strong project management skills and can drive decisions in a confident and effective way
- be familiar with city regeneration contexts and best practice
- demonstrate an in depth working knowledge of environmental and social performance impacts and how we can deliver these within projects
- excellent communication skills and a sincere desire to contribute to lively, creative and productive team working
- experience with Adobe CS, Vectorworks and GIS software is essential
- have a genuine desire to help foster and create and an inclusive team, studio culture and work environment
- be commercially aware with an understanding of financial targets and business KPI’s
- enjoy collaborating and making new contacts
- have demonstrable experience of identifying growth prospects and targeting new work streams
Desired:
- be a minimum of seven years’ post Part 3/final accreditation
- have held an associate role in a similar sized practice
- are an active contributor to the wider built environment profession and with a strong commitment to continuing professional development
- be experienced in delivering high quality projects for public sector clients
- experience using CMAP or similar project management software
Benefits
On top of a competitive salary, we offer staff a wide range of benefits: hybrid working options, flexible working hours policy, pension and enhanced parental leave provision, profit share, paid professional memberships, training opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, and an interest-free TfL season ticket loan. Our growing internal wellbeing and activities programme includes weekly staff lunches/ breakfasts, talks, social events and field trips, as well as wider support.
Equal opportunities
Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, based in our London office (plus flexible/ remote working options), and would ideally be available to start January 2023.
We Made That is London Living Wage accredited and an equal opportunities employer and supporter of the Mayor’s Fund for London Diversity Pledge.
How to apply
Please submit a digital copy of your portfolio and CV via the apply for job button below (max. 10MB) along with a covering letter outlining how you meet the criteria. Mark the subject line with ‘Associate/Senior Associate’.
Pay will be commensurate with experience and we would request that you set out your pay expectations in the covering letter.
Deadline
Deadline for applications is 20 November 2022.
About We Made That
We create equitable places through incisive research and impactful projects. We work exclusively for the public sector and charities and are committed to delivering public good.
We are driven by making better places for all.
We Made That was established in 2006, and became a Certified B Corporation in 2021 with a new legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. We deliver projects across the UK from offices in London and Manchester.