Part 2 Architectural Assistant
Nancy Gouldstone Architects is seeking a talented Part 2 architectural assistant with at least 1 year of experience with relevant private residential experience in practice to join its team. This would be for full time permanent job once the three month probation period had ended. We are looking for an ambitious people who are interested in becoming long term members of our growing practice.
You will be working on projects in areas including Chelsea, Primrose Hill, Hampstead and Belsize Park and surrounding areas from RIBA stages 0 – 5.
You will be working in our office which is located in North London.
Full-time, fully office based position with an immediate start if the candidate is available or if you are already employed, we will be happy to wait for your notice period to be worked through.
You will be given guidance and structured support with regular personal reviews so that you can gain more responsibility in a fast-paced environment.
While we are looking for a specific skillset, having the right personality and a can-do attitude is even more important. So even if you don’t have all of the technical skills mentioned but feel you could be a great asset to our practice, please do reach out.
Essential:
· Good at learning new skills
· Hard working with excellent organisational skills
· A love of architecture, interior design and garden design
· A love of thoughtful and unique residential design
· Vectorworks, or if you cannot use Vectorworks you are prepared to learn it in advance of starting at our practice.
· A love of systems – we are a highly systemised practice with lots of training resources and specific ways of doing our tasks, and we track everything so that we can all progress as fast as possible
· ARB accredited architecture course at Part 1 & Part 2 level as relevant
· A love of historic, heritage buildings (most of of our projects are in existing period buildings, some of which are Listed buildings or located in conservation areas)
· InDesign (or Affinity publisher)
· Photoshop (or Affinity Photo)
· Good team player. Happy to work independently but also happy to take guidance and work to deadlines and specific tasks.
· Excellent level of written and spoken English
· Ability to communicate confidently, clearly and effectively.
· Good multi-tasker. We have a lot of projects on and as a small team, people need to be happy to take on a range of tasks.
· Based in London
· Hold a UK visa or work permit (valid for next two years from start)
· Evidence of your academic qualification will be required prior to starting the role.
· References from at least one Architecture practice and one former tutor.
Experience:
·At least one year’s experience in a residential architect’s practice.
Duties:
·Drawing up general arrangement drawings for each stage of the project
·Drawing up room elevations and plans for key design areas
·Creating schedule drawing packages – doors windows rooflights etc
·Researching and putting together reference images for preliminary stage
·Creating mood boards
·Creating 3D working models of key areas of the design in vectorworks
·Creating Excel spreadsheets for specification of interior and architectural items
·On occasion, attending site visits with the project Architect and writing up construction notes documenting progress on site and updated to do lists
·Creating to do lists for projects and keeping track of what needs to be done and updating to do lists daily on our internal project management system
·Liaising with and chasing builders, structural engineers, party wall consultants, building control inspectors, suppliers regarding the coordination and progress of the residential projects you are involved in. You will need to be a confident and friendly communicator as you will need to be calling and emailing the various other consultants on a regular basis to ensure that projects keep progressing in a timely fashion
·Liaising to choose samples for the architecture and interior design of each project
·After training working on CDM duties for a range of projects
Salary:
· We offer salaries based on experience in line with the current RIBA salary guide.
How to apply:
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please apply using the google form link below.
**Update, the google form is not working Friday 19th September - please email providing the following information in an email:
Your name
Part 1 University - start date, end date
Part 2 University - start date, end date
Employer reference details & contact details
Tutor reference details & contact details
Please confirm if you can use Vectorworks and if you can't please confirm if you are prepared to learn the basics of vectorworks before joining our practice
Confirm If you are a UK Citizen and if you are not please confirm if you have a Visa for 2 years minimum. We will not be able to provide sponsorship
Send your CV and your Portfolio