Urban Designer

This role sits within the cities team which forms part of the Building and Cities Unit. Our aim is to fully realise the potential of our front end consultancy skills to increase our market profile in cities based work from the earliest stages of strategy development and project creation. Urban designers are an integral part of our cities business. They work alongside town planners and place economists to provide public sector clients with integrated master planning and placemaking services across the UK and internationally.

This role is being created to support the rapid development of our cities team and provide greater junior level urban design staff capacity to respond to existing client requirements and emerging opportunities and expand technical resource capacity. Mott Mac Donald's cities team undertakes projects spanning a range of complex urban contexts including:

• Town centre and urban regeneration
• Transport hubs and Transit orientated development
• Mixed use urban quarters and neighbourhood

The post holder will support senior staff in the preparation of town centre strategies, site and area based masterplans, development frameworks, feasibility studies and public realm concept designs. All projects are likely to involve stakeholder and community engagement. Significant career development opportunities will be available including involvement in a diverse portfolio of project work, development of analytical and delivery focused urban design skills, integrated multi-disciplinary master planning and the production of high quality graphic outputs.

There will be opportunities to progress to more senior urban design roles offering greater levels of responsibility including stakeholder and client liaison.,

• Prepare key urban design outputs including reports, spatial frameworks, masterplans, site feasibility studies, design guidance working with senior designers and other staff within the studio
• Prepare project presentations to clients, working groups, stakeholder meetings etc
• Support the wider team in stakeholder and community engagement to enable the production of the above
• Support the preparation of bids
• Contribute to the development of Mott Mac Donald's cities business and raising the profile of urban design skills and services within the company and within the market, Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
  Degree in town planning, landscape architecture or architecture
• A post graduate qualification in urban design (Post Graduate diploma or MA)
• A recent graduate with minimal experience or a candidate with up to three years post qualification experience with a proven track record of relevant skills and experience for a more senior role
• Eligibility for chartered membership or a chartered member of a relevant professional institute e.g. MRTPI, MLI, RIBA
• Worked within a consulting environment on development-led urban design projects for a more senior role appointment
• A strong portfolio showing a selection of urban design and master planning work. This could include University course work for recent graduates. International project experience is desirable but not essential
• For more experienced candidates evidence of delivering projects at a variety of scales and in a range of contexts including urban regeneration, town and city centres, transit orientated development or growth areas
• Ability to develop, draw and communicate urban design and placemaking ideas from appraisal of the local context and early…