We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our commitment to diversity and inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
About the role
This is a great opportunity to join Hounslow’s ambitious Urban Design and Conservation Team as a Junior Urban Design and Conservation Officer. We are looking for a talented and conscientious individual who is keen to progress their career in urban design and conservation who is keen on taking on the challenge of expanding our design services to improve design within the borough.
You will assist the team with the running of Hounslow’s Design Review Panel, our independent and impartial evaluation process that assesses the design of significant development proposals, regeneration programmes, policies, briefs and guidance. The role will also require you to contribute to urban design and conservation projects and support the team with giving urban design and conservation advice development schemes.
The post attracts a 15% market factor supplement.
About the team
The Urban Design and Conservation Team sits within Hounslow’s Spatial Planning Team. The Spatial Planning team has responsibility for the Local Plan, infrastructure, urban design and conservation, with the key aims of delivering plan-led, well-designed growth that is informed by community input and conserving and enhancing our historic environment.
Working within this dynamic and ambitious team, you will be a key team member in helping the team grow its design reach. You will help to expand and improve the urban design services that the Council offers, with the aim of improving the design quality of new development across the borough.
You will report to the Design and Conservation Team Leader.
About you
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
- The successful candidate will be conscientious and a responsible individual who can be trusted to carry out their responsibilities to a high standard
- Be willing to learn new skills and keen to continue your professional development.
- Have a collaborative attitude and be a team player, contributing to the overall goals and success of the team
- Have good customer service skills and be able to work positively and constructively with a wide range of stakeholders
- Be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, members of the public and other stakeholders.
We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!