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Introduction

Here at Rural Solutions, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional design solutions that exceed our clients' expectations whilst enhancing and complementing these special rural places and landscapes. As we continue to grow, we are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Architect.

Responsibilities:

- Client Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, by understanding their needs and ensuring exceptional project delivery.

- Business Development: Identify and win new business opportunities, collaborate with others, and contribute to the growth of the firm.

- Project Leadership: Lead on complex projects and take personal responsibility for project delivery and execution – either directly or working in partnership with others.

- Quality Assurance: Ensure high-quality design standards and adherence to project timelines.

- Team Management: Mentor and guide team members, and where possible foster an environment of professional growth and collaboration.

Qualifications:

- Experience: Ideally a minimum of 15 years of experience.

- Proven track record: Successfully leading projects.

- Strong client-side experience: The ability to understand client needs and translate them into exceptional design solutions.

- Business acumen: Ability to significantly contribute to company-wide business development efforts.

- Excellent design and communication skills: Able to articulate design concepts and lead presentations.

- Team player: Collaborative and supportive leadership style with a proven track record of mentoring junior team members.

Requirements:

- Registered Architect

- Proficiency in architectural software (AutoCAD, Sketch-up, In-design preferred)

- Strong communication, interpersonal and organisational skills, and ability to articulate design strategies across different levels

- Drive, energy and passion essential

Remuneration: 

Competitive salary based on experience, plus benefits package.

Location:

Office based in Skipton, North Yorkshire with hybrid working available.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their CV, portfolio, and a cover letter outlining their relevant experience to recruitment@ruralsolutions.co.uk.

As a growing team, we’re looking for talented and passionate Landscape Architects to join our rural specialists in architecture, planning and consultancy.

If you enjoy spending time in the great outdoors, we might just be the right fit for you. We cover a diverse range of projects across the UK for a variety of clients, with many sites located within some of the most breathtaking landscape environments. Projects range from new exemplar country houses to design and delivery of mixed-use residential developments, various new leisure facilities, historic landscapes and day visitor attractions.

You will have the chance to work across a variety of projects and be responsible for the delivery of a range of outputs from site visits, landscape and visual assessments, design reports, hand sketching, masterplanning, detailed drawings.

The person:

The successful landscape architect will ideally have the following:

- Experience in delivering landscape and visual assessments.
- Ability to communicate well with colleagues, consultants and clients.
- A strong critical design eye with a passion for creating new spaces and places.
- Ability to work as a team or individually.

Requirements:

- A minimum of two years of experience.
- Ideally, you will be working towards your Pathway to Chartership or recently chartered.
- Degree or Graduate Diploma and / or Masters in Landscape Architecture accredited by the Landscape Institute.
- A full driving licence.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite software and Microsoft Office.

Remuneration:

Competitive salary based on experience, plus a benefits package.

Location:

Our office is based in Skipton, North Yorkshire with hybrid working available. For the right person, remote working will be considered.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should submit their CV, portfolio (up to 5MB), and a cover letter outlining their relevant experience to recruitment@ruralsolutions.co.uk.

Our planning team is expanding, and we are looking to recruit an experienced chartered planning professional or experienced planner.

The highlights

Delivering a portfolio of client projects across rural land and property.

The role requires experience of business development and working as a planner.

Nationwide – hybrid or office based in Skipton, North Yorkshire.

Salary dependent on experience.

About the company

We are a multi-disciplinary business focused on rural development and diversification. We work throughout the UK with a wide and varied client base with diverse land and property interests.

We pride ourselves on our team culture with 100% of our team proud to say they work for Rural Solutions. Our teams work very closely together in a collaborative environment to achieve common goals.

The person

We are looking for a candidate who is commercially aware with a proven track record in business development and over five years' post qualification experience working as a planner.

The successful candidate will be resourceful, flexible, and ambitious and be able to demonstrate the following experience:

• An excellent understanding of client relationship management.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• A proven ability to manage workload, budgets and project co-ordination.
• A proven track record in business development and project delivery.
• Competence and confidence to deal with a range of planning disciplines.

Experience of working in a rural planning practice is not essential, but a demonstration of an understanding of rural planning issues is beneficial.

Location

Flexible, nationwide.

Our head office is in Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales but as a flexible employer we will consider applications from anywhere in the UK on a hybrid basis with an expectation of some working days each month being spent in Skipton. We are set up to work collaboratively as a dispersed team.

To apply

To apply for this position please e-mail your CV and supporting statement to recruitment@ruralsolutions.co.uk, or to find out more about this opportunity please contact Chloe Elliott on 01756 797501.