Calling Landscape Architects to the Associate Programme
12 days ago
Sheffield
JOB TITLE: Calling Landscape Architects to the Associate Programme Are you a landscape architect who cares deeply about the role nature plays in everyday life? Public Practice offers an opportunity to put your skills where they matter most: at the heart of communities in England and Wales. We're recruiting talented, motivated and experienced landscape architects who want to gain experience in the public sector. Our flagship initiative provides the support and structure to help you confidently take this next step in your career. The Associate Programme can offer you: • A public sector role matched to your experience and skills, • A tailored development course to support your shift into public service, • Undertaking landscape character appraisals of key sites as part of Local Plan site assessments., • Taking a landscape-led approach to the strategic planning for emerging masterplans, urban extensions or new settlements., • Integrating green infrastructure and sustainable urban drainage into major developments, infrastructure or highways., • Preparing public realm design guides across Authorities or areas of development., • Securing funding for restoring or revitalising parks and open spaces., • Promoting active travel and sustainable forms of transport through public realm improvements., • Implementing biodiversity net-gain, • We want our cohorts to be diverse in terms of skills, experience, and backgrounds and actively encourage applications from all sections of society, be it age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, neurodiversity or disability., • We require applicants to have a minimum of three years of relevant professional working experience within the built environment so they can hit the ground running from the start. There is no upper limit., • To be eligible for the programme, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. We are not able to sponsor visas., • The first stage of the application process is completing an online form. Applicants will then be assessed anonymously based on their answers to questions., • Those who are successful at the online stage will receive an email on 15 January 2026 inviting them to book into two online assessments., • If you meet our requirements after all assessments, you will join our pool of candidates and be considered for any suitable roles we receive., • We strongly recommend you take our Eligibility Quiz or attend one of our events for further information on our programme before starting your application on our website: Become an Associate