The Office for Place is currently hiring for new roles in Stoke-on-Trent!
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Office for Place in Stoke-on-Trent, a new arms-length body to MHCLG. The Office for Place will lead and shape the work that will enable it to support councils and communities to create well-designed, sustainable, popular, healthy homes and places for all.
Are you interested in how we create and curate the places that surround us?
The Office for Place is a newly established non-departmental public body that will develop and share evidence, advice, tools and learning to support the creation and stewardship of places that are beautiful, sustainable, popular, and healthy.
It has its origins in the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission Report ‘Living with Beauty’ which has influenced national planning policy and, through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act, the requirement for all local authorities to produce a design code for their area, developed through local community involvement and engagement.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an organisation whose objectives are to:
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Catalyse a fundamental change within and across all levels of government, communities, and the development, planning and design industries, to support the creation and stewardship of popular, healthy, beautiful, and sustainable places.
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Help neighbourhoods, communities and public servants working on their behalf, to ask for and deliver new places, and manage existing places, to be popular, healthy, beautiful, and sustainable.
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Support public sector planners and the British design and development industries to be the best place makers in the world aided by improving UK and international data on happiness, health, popularity, and sustainability.
Are you willing to help us meet this challenge?
You will be joining a new organisation chaired by Nicholas Boys Smith MBE and a board of non-executive directors. You will be able to help shape its programme of work from an early stage. The Office for Place will be subject to the standard review of public bodies which will take place after 3-5 years to ensure continuing delivery for government and the taxpayer.
We particularly welcome candidates from an ethnic minority background and other underrepresented groups to apply, as we work to continually improve our ability to represent the places and communities we support through our work.
We are currently working in a start-up phase and will be recruiting to several roles across different disciplines, we expect all appointed candidates to work flexibility across the organisation and to recognise that job roles may be adjusted as the organisation grows to full capacity over the coming year.
The current roles we are hiring for are:
Information sessions, where you can find out more about the roles and the Office for Place, will take place on 27 August at 2.30pm and 4 September at 10am.
More roles will be advertised in the coming months on the Civil Service Jobs website and this webpage.
If you have any queries about the role, please email [email protected].
Updates to this page
Published 30 May 2023Last updated 23 August 2024 + show all updates
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New job vacancies added, change of email and image.
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Updated the list of current roles we are hiring for.
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Updated article with latest round of jobs from the Office for Place.
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