London, UK
Senior architect
at Enfield Council
Enfield Council has an opportunity for a senior architect to join its planning service in London.
This role is for a 12-month maternity cover.
It is an exciting time to join the planning service at Enfield Council. Enfield holds significant potential for good growth and has an ambitious council focusing on delivery. As a planning service, we are energised and passionate about delivering proactive planning to help shape the borough over the next 15 years and beyond, including helping enable the delivery of circa 30,000 homes. We are now embarking on a new phase of regeneration and placemaking, with the council taking a confident role in making things happen.
As we progress with our new local plan, a number of significant development proposals are lining up to progress through the planning process – some led by the council, others by private developers – and we are building the capacity of our multidisciplinary team to help get the most out of these projects.
We are seeking an officer to join our team of architects and urban designers to provide architectural design advice and work with colleagues across the planning, housing and property services, developers, agents and communities, to help deliver positive outcomes for Enfield and its surroundings. The role involves managing the architectural team within the council, motivating the team to deliver high performance and outputs, and driving forward the commercialisation agenda. The successful candidate will provide a range of architectural services which promote design quality, including capacity studies and options appraisals; strategic design and visioning; design briefs; quality review and client-side design advice; master planning; procurement advice, strategic mapping, graphics and desktop publishing.
We are especially seeking candidates with similar previous experience of working in both public and private sector settings with a range of stakeholders. Demonstrating previous experience working and leading on area-based master planning and design guidance/codes will be advantageous.
We want to hear from applicants who can contribute positively to the work and culture of a dynamic and ambitious team. The immediate role provides cover for a year.
How to apply
This role requires that you upload two documents in the document upload section of the online application form:
- a supporting statement addressing how you meet the requirements of the job description and person specification, around two pages in A4 format
- your CV
Please note if your supporting statement is longer than two pages your application may not be considered or reviewed.
Please click on this link for more information including the job description and person specification and to make your application online.
Interviews will take place the week commencing 6 November 2023.
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Christine White 020 8132 2017 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Vickie McGrath on 0208 132 1053 or via email.
We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents. Please note it is your responses to the essential/desirable criteria, as detailed in the job description and person specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV.
We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do – by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you. And of course we are always happy to talk flexible working.
Why it’s great to work for Enfield Council:
- an excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service; you will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas
- a blend of remote and office-based working for most roles
- interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months
- career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
- employee assistance programme to provide advice and counselling services – a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family
- health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work
- one month paid sabbatical for children’s social workers
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past six months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.
The deadline for applications is 30 October 2023.