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We Made That is looking for a Part 2 architectural designer to join its team in its London office.

Are you driven by creating inclusive placemaking strategies and projects for public good?

We are seeking a candidate capable of working on influential spatial strategies, city regeneration schemes and masterplans, and delivering exemplary place shaping across a range of community and cultural infrastructure projects.

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic and design-focused individual capable of working within a team and have a genuine desire to work on urban-scale and town centre strategies, participative co-design projects and early stages of architectural and public realm project development.

Responsibilities and tasks

You must be a talented designer, with good technical knowledge, strong visual and graphic skills and with a great eye for presentation. Working within a project team you should be comfortable reporting to project leads and manage deadlines and project workload effectively.

Project focused:

• assist the team on projects by providing support on presentations and reports
• contribute to day to day running of projects, undertaking administration, project management tasks and research
• produce drawings, reports and diagrams
• devise engagement strategies for projects, including facilitating workshops and events
• prepare 2D and 3D drawings
• build strategies and design proposals from appraisals
• produce images, communication material and illustrations to explain project proposals
• attend project meetings and contribute to design reviews
• help manage other assistants and be a good team player
• actively participate in CPD, training and internal practice knowledge shares

Competencies, skills and experience

You must be a skilled, design focused and talented architectural designer with a keen interest in working on projects delivering social impact and learning new skills. You should have a fluency in working with a broad spectrum of people – including the wider public – in driving projects forwards.

Essential:

• Part 2 qualification
• strong Adobe CS skills and proficiency with CAD software (Vectorworks preferred)
• excellent command of written and spoken English
• collaborative and can-do attitude
• a talent for production through drawing, illustration and image-making
• familiar with working across RIBA Stages 0-3
• have a genuine interest in urban-scale projects, masterplans and delivering
• social impact through our project work
• have an interest in city regeneration contexts and best practice
• have the ability to work independently and be a confident designer
• previous experience in a professional office environment
• demonstrate keen appreciation of environmental and social performance impacts

Desired:

• experience working on projects for public sector clients
• experience running engagement events and workshops
• experience with GIS software
• 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 internal wellbeing and activities programme includes social events and field trips, as well as wider support.

Equal opportunities

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK and would ideally be available to start in August/September 2025. We Made That is an equal opportunities employer, accredited as both London Living Wage and the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employer.

We are keen that our practice reflects the diversity of communities we design for, and welcome and encourage applications from individuals from groups historically under-represented in the sector.

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 ‘Part 2 architectural designer’.

Pay will be commensurate with experience and we would request that you set out your pay expectations in the covering letter.

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 were awarded the Architect Employer of the Year at Architect of the Year Awards 2024.

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.

www.wemadethat.co.uk