Graduate Consultant Built Heritage & Townscape
Iceni’s Built Heritage and Townscape team are looking for a candidate who has recently graduated or is moving towards graduation to join our busy and growing practice. This role will be based in our London (Farringdon) office. We’re looking for detail-oriented thinkers, creatives and strategists, who can develop their skills in analysis and argument, to grow within a team that is valued by its clients for its robust and solutions-focused advice.
Who are Iceni?
Iceni Projects is a modern, forward-thinking development consultancy. In being awarded the 2021 RTPI Planning Consultancy of the Year Award, it was noted that,
‘The judges were especially impressed by Iceni’s tribal ethos, in the sense that they have created a culture which staff focused and highlights the importance of their wellbeing above all else’.
Nothing could make us prouder; it’s why we do what we do. Iceni is a firm that, across its services, always looks to work collaboratively, seeking creative solutions to problems, challenging clients and colleagues to create great places.
The work of the Heritage and Townscape Team is immensely varied. Whether it be a tall building, a 1,500 homes scheme on a former industrial site or military barracks, a solar farm or alterations to a single listed building or a small new development in a Conservation Area, we work across a massive range of project scales and types, with a huge breadth of architectural and other design collaborators. Our work is also nationwide; we’re currently working in towns and cities like Manchester, Sheffield, Exeter, Bristol, Norwich, Stevenage, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Birmingham, in addition to our huge London-based workload and regional strategic land work.
What are we looking for?
From its establishment within Iceni in 2014, the focus of the Heritage and Townscape Team has been on finding exceptional candidates that bring something different to the group. It includes individuals with training in architecture, urban design, history, and architectural history, former local authority officers and those from a private consultancy background, and a range of personalities.
Now, we’re looking for the team’s ‘next generation’. We’ve always sought to ‘grow our own’, and individuals joining from graduation have progressed to Senior Consultant and Associate historically. Beyond the simple requirement of degree-level experience of urban design, conservation, architectural history, archaeology or similar, we’re simply looking for passionate, curious individuals who want to grow into a consultancy career.
Who are you?
You:
• have some experience in built heritage, either through a degree/masters, or work in the built heritage or buildings archaeology sector. Recent graduates, those still completing Masters courses, or individuals in the first few years of their career are particularly welcome (essential);
• demonstrate a continuous team-orientated approach and the drive to work cooperatively with other members of the Heritage and Townscape Team, provide cover and support as required, and contribute to the sharing of best practice and lessons learned at project completion (essential);
• demonstrate good organisational ability in order to manage the variety of tasks and to keep on top of the records (essential);
• demonstrate willingness for continuous development and proactive in keeping industry knowledge and skills up to date, and ability to work collaboratively with other teams across the business (essential);
• good computing and IT skills and a willingness to keep up to date with technological advances (essential);
• experience in using programmes such as GIS, CAD, VU City (desirable but not essential);
• commercially orientated, with a good understanding of project timelines and project budgeting (essential);
• have full right to work in the UK for 4 years +/indefinitely (essential). Please confirm what right to work you have at application stage.
How do we reward you?
• Competitive salary;
• Discretionary bonus;
• Training and opportunities including support for your CPD;
• 25 days annual leave (exclusive of bank holidays) with the option to purchase additional days;
• Company pension contribution of 9% (applicable to all employees, irrespective of their contribution);
• Health and Wellbeing package in the form of an employer funded Health Cash Plan to cover your everyday costs and an additional allowance for other areas of wellbeing support, following successful probation period;
• Family Friendly incentives including enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption pay.
Please send your CV and covering letter, along with your right to work information (Visa/British Citizenship etc) to recruitment@iceniprojects.com should you be interested in this position. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
The job description for the role can be found here:
2026-Person-Specification-Job-Description-Consultant-London.pdf
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The closing date for applications is Friday 19th June 2026
