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The Office for Place are recruiting!

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Office for Place in DLUHC, to lead and shape the work that will enable it to support councils and communities to create beautiful, sustainable, popular and healthy places.

Role 1: Design Code Lead – We are seeking a senior architect or urban designer to join the Office for Place to lead on the development of tools and processes to help local authorities and communities set their own design codes.

Role 2: Research lead – We are seeking an experienced research practitioner, with expertise in the built environment to lead on the commissioning and undertaking of research for the Office for Place.

These roles are being offered as 1-year fixed-term contracts and can also be offered on secondment. The closing date is 11:55pm on Monday 5 June 2023.

Here is a quote from Nicholas Boys Smith, Chair of the Office for Place Advisory Board:

We know from increasingly robust research that too many of the lives our fellow citizens lead are damaged by poor places, no friends round the corner, less sense of community, less walking, less local pride.

You can measure this, in shorter lives, in poorer air, in lost trust, in more opposition to housebuilding. The Office for Place is being created to help solve this and to help neighbourhoods and communities, public servants and developers more readily create and steward healthy, beautiful and sustainable places.

Please come and join us and help set the place-making agenda for many years to come.

If you have any queries about the role, please email officeforplace@levellingup.gov.uk

Published 30 May 2023