Landscape Architect: Placemaking & Waterside Design Lead

Canal & River Trust; England; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Increased holiday entitlement

Job summary

Canal & River Trust invites a Landscape Architect to join the Placemaking & Design team. You will report to the Principal Landscape Architect and help shape waterside places along the nation’s canal network across England and Wales.

This national role offers home working with hub offices and regular travel to sites and Trust hubs, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to deliver sustainable, community-focused landscapes.

Qualifications

• Degree and postgraduate diploma in Landscape Architecture or Urban Design.
• Chartered Landscape Architect or relevant equivalent.
• Experience in landscape planning, urban design, heritage, and public realm projects.
• Ability to draft planting plans, landscape specifications, and visualisations.

Responsibilities

• Provide landscape architecture leadership within multidisciplinary project teams across all areas of the Trust, including producing design principles, sketch schemes and masterplans, and detailed schemes and documentation for planning applications.
• Create vision documents and waterspace strategies focusing on placemaking and shaping, connecting people with the natural and historic environment.
• Review and respond to third-party planning applications as statutory consultee, protecting the historic network.
• Produce design guidance documents for Trust workstreams to influence internal teams and policy makers.
• Produce high-quality graphics to support the Trust’s ambitions.
• Work with Environment & Climate Action to develop landscape-led initiatives including biodiversity net gain and nature-based solutions.

Skills

Team collaboration

Influencing stakeholders

Communication skills

Project management

Problem solving

Education

Degree and post-graduate diploma in Landscape Architecture or Urban Design

Chartered Landscape Architect or equivalent

Tools

GIS

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Adobe Creative Suite

Microsoft Office

Job description

Canal & River Trust invites a Landscape Architect to join the Placemaking & Design team. You will report to the Principal Landscape Architect and help shape waterside places along the nation’s canal network across England and Wales.

This national role offers home working with hub offices and regular travel to sites and Trust hubs, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to deliver sustainable, community-focused landscapes.