Build Up | DESIGN LEAD (FREELANCE)

£200 – 250 per day

Can you support young people's influence on London’s built environment? Build Up is looking for freelance Design Leads to support young people to design our projects.

You’ll be joining an award-winning charity which supports young people to shape their local area. On our practical construction projects, young people design and build permanent, high-quality and accessible spaces for local communities.

Who you are

The role would suit someone with experience leading projects in the public realm, public spaces, community buildings, furniture, landscape or a related field. You will have a practical and user-focused approach to design, and be good at working with people of all ages.

We value lived experience relevant to our young people, and strongly encourage applications from people of colour, minority ethnic backgrounds, working-class communities and/or other underrepresented groups.

The Role

You will lead young people’s involvement in the design of our projects, running co-design workshops and supporting young people to design new spaces for their communities. During sessions you will support work placement staff aged 18-23; after sessions, you will further develop young people’s ideas into feasible design proposals.

Who we are

Build Up’s purpose is to empower young people to shape where they live and make decision-making in London’s built environment representative of its communities. We do this by running projects that put young people in control of the design and construction of permanent public and community spaces. Our past projects include Build Up Hackney and The Shade.

To apply

For details see the job description.

We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis after 10th January 2023, with applications closing on the 18th of January 2023.