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You will be developing our design guidance in relation to town centres and shopfronts.  This will involve:

  • study of a town centre or centres as they are and
  • reviewing the importance and merit of individual buildings/ frontages and looking at:
  • Threats and opportunities to these and drafting guidance as to how they may make the best contribution to the town centres
  • Producing some guidance about the town(s) with guidance identifying key buildings, and their importance (annotated maps or leaflet in draft form).   

You will need

  • To be studying towards or to have recently (in the past 18 months) achieved a degree in town planning, urban design or a relate subject
  • Some experience in project working and some knowledge of town planning and awareness possibly specialising in urban design
  • For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification.

Who are we

Publica is a unique place to work – we’re a local government organisation with a twist! Publica wants to transform the way local services are delivered. To help do this we have started to fundamentally rethink the way we design our services in the digital era so that Publica is a customer focused organisation driven by real user needs.

What can we do for you

  • Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working
  • Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role)
  • 26 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays and an extra two volunteering days off a year for you to support a charity of your choice
  • Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care
  • Pension scheme with a good employer contribution of 5% of your earnings
  • Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with huge tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars
  • Access to digital financial advice (covering your pension scheme, mortgages and other finances)
  • Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements
  • Additional income protection, covering 50% of your salary for potentially a further five years if you are unable to work due to sickness or injury
  • Life assurance, currently four times your annual salary