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Public Realm Manager

Employer
NFP People
Location
London
Salary
£50,000 - £60,000 Per Annum
Closing date
1 Sep 2022

Job Details

Public Realm Manager

We are looking for an exceptional Public Realm, Urban Planning/Placemaking Manager with energy, drive, and ambition to ensure that public realm interventions contribute to making the area more sustainable, welcoming, and accessible.

Position: Public Realm/Placemaking Manager

Location: London - office based – Hybrid - W1G 9HX.

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 per annum - Dependent on experience

Duration: Fixed Term Contract to 31 March 2027

Hours: Full time, 35hrs per week

Closing Date: 29th August 2022

About the Role:

As Public Realm/Placemaking Manager you will ensure that patients of medical facilities, customers of the local shops and facilities, and visitors can enjoy the area. There is also potential to re-organise and consolidate delivery and servicing operations within the BID’s footprint to reduce their impact on the public realm, and thereby improve business economic and environmental sustainability.

Key Responsibilities:

 

  • Development of the internal agreed public realm approach for the next 5 years and beyond
  • Leading or commissioning research to influence and inform strategic thinking on the future of the West End
  • Investigating and applying for funding from various sources
  • Management of public realm projects including, but not limited to, the curation and activation of under used spaces
  • Coordinating with the BID Director on setting, measuring, and reporting on key performance indicators
  • Working with relevant stakeholders to commission key public realm projects
  • Work with their businesses on freight and waste consolidation and the promotion of active travel in the area
  • Drafting and presenting well-written and timely reports for relevant boards.
  • Managing the public realm steering group and associated key themes
  • Influencing design, management, and activation approaches to key placemaking projects across the footprint
  • Working with the marketing team to ensure members and key stakeholders are continuously and fully briefed

 

About You:

The successful Public Realm/Placemaking Manager will bring with them the following skills and experience:

 

  • Professionally qualified in a relevant discipline (urban design, landscape architecture, urban planning etc.
  • Proven record of initiating, developing, delivering, and closing complex projects
  • Demonstrable experience of managing performance of and delivery through external contractors and/or suppliers
  • An understanding of the planning and highways systems and processes to be followed
  • An understanding and experience of interacting with relevant Local Authority departments and elected officials
  • Knowledge of methods of acquiring additional funding through relevant streams
  • High levels of written and verbal communication
  • High level advocacy and influencing skills appropriate for a complex and dynamic stakeholder environment

 

Desirable

 

  • Knowledge of purpose and legal foundations of Business Improvement Districts
  • Understanding of construction materials and processes relevant to streets, shared public spaces and green spaces

 

Other roles you may have experience of could include Landscape architecture, Urban Planning, Urban Design, Transport Planning, regeneration, Landscape Architect, Architectural Technologist, Architect

Company

We are Not-For-Profit People.

We recruit exclusively for organisations in the challenging Not-For-Profit sector. We’re fully behind the charities and bodies that aim to change the world – one project at a time. Whether you’re seeking exceptional leaders, committed staff or a combination of the two, you probably want to know exactly how we’re different and why it matters to you. We don’t do business as usual. We deliver a recruitment solution that replaces clunky, costly, contracted processes with a single, seamless solution.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01234 815658
Location
6 West Street
Olney
Buckinghamshire
MK46 5HR
GB

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