Urban Room Coordinator
Salary range: Grade 9 - 11 £42,060 - £43,680 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Croydon
The post offers an exciting opportunity for experienced and motivated creative professionals with backgrounds in public engagement, public programmes, stakeholder management and cultural space management to join one of the most progressive public sector design and policy teams in the UK, to coordinate the thought-leading and award-winning Croydon Urban Room project.
The Spatial Planning, Growth Zone and Regeneration directorate, with its Placemaking Team at the heart of it, is helping drive this recovery – we are doing this through a diverse range of activities and programmes to support good growth, working to ensure Croydon meets its full potential; and providing inclusive and inviting places to live, work and visit. The Croydon Urban Room is at the heart of shaping the recovery and resilience of an important part of Croydon town centre since launching in Summer 2024. Its role is to explore and define the future of the town centre within the changing retail landscape and helping democratise what can often be top-down processes in future planning and placemaking.
High-quality design and placemaking sit at the heart of Croydon’s vision, and work is already underway with the delivery of an ambitious programme of regeneration projects led by both the council and private sector partners. This includes the revival of large urban quarters and its suburbs, delivery of the Council’s Growth Zone programme including significant public realm improvements, and high-profile mixed-use developments across the borough. Central to this is the Placemaking Team and its exemplary work to transform the physical and environmental quality of a Croydon and tangibly improve the economic and social well-being of Croydon’s communities.
About the Placemaking Team
The Croydon Council Placemaking Team is an award winning, multidisciplinary team of built environment practitioners with experience from the strategic level through to detailed design and delivery. The team sits within the council’s Strategic Planning and Regeneration directorate and works across strategic planning, urban design, architecture & landscape architecture, research, public engagement, public realm, public art & culture, heritage and conservation. The team is part of the Spatial Planning Service, which brings together Croydon’s Placemaking and Planmaking functions to provide a holistic and coordinated approach to planning, design and delivery. It comprises of urban designers, architects, landscape architects, built heritage specialists, cultural practitioners and planners.
About the role
The role will coordinate and support the Croydon Urban Room project; a physical and digital space for public participation; fostering meaningful connection between people and place; past, present and future.
We are looking for candidates with innovative, design-led and holistic approaches to public and stakeholder engagement, public programming, event & space management and exhibition curation. Candidates should be independent, critical and creative thinkers and project managers with experience of developing and delivering public facing creative and cultural spaces and programmes across a range of scales, and audiences. Candidates should be confident negotiators and communicators in a public-facing context and have a good knowledge of space management and event production alongside marketing & communications experience, graphic design, web and social media, and community outreach. Also desirable is knowledge and experience of funding and bid writing, contract management, local business and local government support, and fostering and supporting external partnership across universities, government and industry.
An interest in the Croydon context, with some knowledge of the south London context and the current challenges and opportunities of town centres and high streets, spatial policy and urban design would be desirable.
The Croydon Placemaking Team is committed to ensuring a fair and open place of work. We aim to shape places that are created with and enjoyed by all people of different cultures, identities, needs and experiences. We believe that our team should reflect the diverse communities we serve and therefore particularly encourage applications from disability groups, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour), and people with trans+ identities, who are currently under-represented within our team.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role. We will also be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements.
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
The role is 36 hours per week, the working days for the role are Tuesday – Saturday.
To arrange an informal discussion, please email either Molly Judge (Placemaking Deputy Team Leader) molly.judge@Croydon.gov.uk, or Anisha Jogani (Placemaking Team Leader) Anisha.jogani@croydon.gov.uk.
To view the Urban Room Coordinator role profile, click here.
Salary range
- £42,060 - £43,680 per year