Canal & River Trust
Landscape Architect
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About the Trust
We're one of the UK’s biggest charities and we care for 2,000 miles of canals, rivers, docks and reservoirs because we believe life is better by water. We're looking for people who support our cause and want to make a difference for future generations. Could this be you?
Along with our waterways we also manage museums, archives and the country's third largest collection of historic buildings, as well as the nature and wildlife that calls our canals home. All of this enables us to provide wellbeing opportunities for millions of people each year.
Join Our Team: Landscape Architect opportunity
Navigate your future and lock in your career as we keep our canals open and alive.
We are currently recruiting for a Landscape Architect to join our Placemaking & Design team. Reporting to the Principal Landscape Architect, you’ll be part of a small but high-performing national team of landscape architects and architects, creating and influencing great waterside places, whilst helping to shape and secure the future of our canal network across England and Wales.
The diverse nature of the Trust’s network, and the range of activities, users and stakeholders that use our waterways, presents unique opportunities for landscape architects to work within our Customer & Place Division, and across our multidisciplinary charity.
We design and influence new waterway and waterside places; enhancing the waterways, creating great waterside places, and connecting our canals to wider neighbourhoods and communities. We develop propositions along the Trust’s waterway network, understanding the heritage and tradition, but also ensuring canals remain relevant through thoughtful, creative and innovative design. Our work takes a place-based approach to create sustainable and valued relationships between communities and their canals.
This is a national role, across our canals in England and Wales. The role has home working status, with Trust ‘hub’ office facilities available across our Regions. An essential part of this role will be a requirement for regular national travel to sites and Trust hubs, (which may or may not be accessible by public transport).
Working Hours & Location
This role follows 37 hours, Monday to Friday working pattern. This role is based working from home, with a requirement to attend our main hub spaces from time to time for team working and collaborative meetings. It is important that you can reasonably commute to one of our main hubs below. The regularity & flexibility of travel will be discussed further at interview stage.
Relevant Hubs: Leeds, Newark, Ellesmere Port, Burnley, Birmingham, Hatton, Leighton Buzzard, Gloucester & Little Venice (London).
Role Overview
You will be a motivated individual, able to work as part of a team, with experience of influencing others and working in multi-disciplinary teams. You will be required to work to set deadlines and demonstrate a willingness to learn new skills and expand your technical knowledge. You will need a good working knowledge of IT, in particular Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite, experience of GIS based systems, Sketch-Up and AutoCAD would be advantageous.
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You will work within the Placemaking & Design team, carrying out specific tasks and supporting the Trust by providing an in-house design consultancy and influencing external parties, working at different levels on an exciting range of projects. You will positively influence Trust and third-party projects to realise innovative opportunities, enhance the waterways and create great waterside places for people and nature by:
Key Responsibilities
- Providing landscape architecture leadership within multidisciplinary project teams across all areas of the Trust, including producing design principles, sketch schemes and outline masterplans, as well as detailed schemes and documentation to support Trust-led planning applications.
- Creating vision documents and waterspace strategies focussed on placemaking and shaping, connecting people with the natural and historic environment and the benefits our canal network can bring to local communities.
- Reviewing and responding to third-party planning applications in the Trust’s role as statutory consultee, protecting our historic network.
- Producing design guidance documents related to different Trust workstreams, to positively influence internal Trust project teams and wider policy makers such as ATE/Local Authority policy makers and developers
- Producing high-quality graphics to support and promote the Trust’s ambitions.
- Working with our Environment & Climate Action team to develop a package of landscape-led initiatives, including biodiversity net gain, nature recovery schemes and nature-based solutions.
About You
You will be a motivated individual, able to work as part of a team, with experience of influencing others and working in multi-disciplinary teams. You will be required to work to set deadlines and demonstrate a willingness to learn new skills and expand your technical knowledge. You will need a good working knowledge of IT, in particular Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite, experience of GIS based systems, Sketch-Up and AutoCAD would be advantageous.
Skills & Qualifications
Technical
- Degree and post-graduate diploma in Landscape Architecture or Urban Design.
- Chartered Landscape Architect or relevant equivalent (e.g. Registered Practitioner in Urban Design).
- Passionate advocate for the value of high-quality design, placemaking, and nature-based solutions.
- Strong problem-solving and landscape design skills.
- Ability to work across all aspects of the landscape profession, including landscape planning, urban design, heritage, and public realm projects.
- Experience of developing planting plans, landscape specifications, and illustrative visualisations.
- Knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) policy, legislation, and guidance would be advantageous.
- Ability to draft, review, and develop technical guidance, standards, and best practice documents.
- Strong IT skills, particularly Adobe Creative Suite, with the ability to produce high-quality graphical outputs and visual communications.
- Experience of using GIS and AutoCAD would be advantageous.
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General:
- Passionate advocate for the value of high-quality design, placemaking, and nature-based solutions.
- Adaptable and able to apply skills across a diverse portfolio of projects and environments.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with experience of engaging a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to influence, negotiate, and build productive relationships across organisational boundaries.
- Confident presenter, with strong verbal communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of multidisciplinary teams.
- Self-motivated and able to manage priorities across multiple projects.
- Ability and willingness to travel across England and Wales, with a valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
Contact & Application
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at CRT.recruitment@canalrivertrust.org.uk. We encourage early applications as we may close the vacancy once we receive enough suitable candidates.
What We Offer
In addition to your annual base salary of £44,000, we also offer a competitive pension scheme, increasing holiday entitlement, and a range of employee benefits. For a full breakdown of our benefits, check out our brochure here: EVP - 1.
Our values
We care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone can thrive. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.
We want everyone to have the opportunity to perform at their best during our recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments - whether for a disability, neurodiversity, or health condition - please let us know what you need and how we can support you. We’ll work with you to make any necessary changes.
All of our jobs can be considered on a part time, flexible or job share basis.
We operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. You are considered disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. We recognise not everyone who is classified as disabled under the Equality Act personally identifies this way, or with this definition of disability. Please do not let this discourage you from applying under the scheme.
At Canal & River Trust, we are committed to fair, transparent, and ethical recruitment practices. As part of our hiring process, we may use AI to analyse applications and support us work more efficiently. However, all hiring decisions – without exception - are made by our hiring managers.
Navigate your future and lock in your career as we keep our canals open and alive.
Find out more about us on our website: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us
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