Would you love to apply your skills and expertise to ‘shape a better world’? Are you interested in the challenges posed by urbanisation, climate change and globalisation, particularly for those living in developing countries? Would you like to drive a transformation in engineering to catalyse a more resilient society?
Arup’s International Development Group (AID), a not-for-profit part of our employee owned global business, has been given a £10M grant from Lloyd’s Register Foundation to create a paradigm shift resilience within and between critical infrastructure – the ‘Joint Programme for Resilience Engineering’.
This is an opportunity for you to lead the delivery of this programme, working with multiple internal and external stakeholders, as well as managing research. You will also join the AID leadership team, contributing to the overall management, successful growth and strategic direction of the group.
You will be based in our London global head offices and will be required to travel overseas (up to 40% max of the time).
Requirements:
•Civil/structural engineering degree qualified and chartered with a relevant institution.
•Experience working overseas.
•Excellent technical skills in a relevant discipline.
•An understanding and interest in cross-cutting issues including sustainability, disaster risk reduction, resilience and climate change.
•A strategic thinker with strong leadership skills, and proven experience of developing and implementing creative and appropriate solutions in wide-ranging contexts.
•Excellent project management skills including the ability to handle multiple projects.
•Additional languages would be highly desirable.
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Reward and Benefits
We offer a competitive salary at all levels, and one of the best benefits package in our sector.
Core benefits include cover under the UK Healthcare Plan (private medical insurance), Life Assurance, Accident Insurance, and Income Protection (long term disability) cover. Core benefits are funded by us and made available to all permanent staff to support and safeguard your financial, physical and mental wellbeing. You will also have access to a grade-related Flexible Benefits Fund which you can choose to take as extra cash, or spend on a wide range of Choice Benefits to help with your work/life balance and financial security.
In addition, all permanent employees are eligible for the Global Profit Share scheme. Subject to scheme rules employees can receive two Profit Share payments per year, which are dependent on the firm’s financial performance.
We are an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. Through our work, we make a positive difference in the world. As a wholly independent organisation, we are owned in trust for the benefit of our employees and their dependants, with no shareholders or external investors to determine our own business priorities and direction.
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This pride comes from the firm’s unique values, which stem from our special independent ownership structure. It comes from the opportunities they get to work with talented people – leading experts who are keen to share their knowledge. And it comes from working on some of the most exciting projects in the world, supported by unrivalled opportunities for learning.
Arup's International Development Group
Arup International Development is a specialist, not-for-profit business within Arup. We partner with development and humanitarian organisations to help them make best use of resources in combating poverty and vulnerability, and increasing wellbeing and resilience.
Clarity and rigour
We believe in 'getting to the heart of the problem’ and can help shape projects right from the outset. We provide strategic advice, technical expertise, assessment and evaluation, to help our partners get the best results at organisational, programme or project level. Our areas of focus are sustainable buildings and infrastructure, community and urban resilience, disaster response and reconstruction.
Our core team of international development professionals are able to tap into the unique multidisciplinary Arup network of over 11,000 people, across five continents. This allows us to put the right team on each project, regardless of location and sensitive to the cultural context.
Our professional expertise and deep understanding of international development sets us apart. We are able to unpack complex challenges and bring greater clarity and rigour to the field.
Collaborate for enduring change
We believe in collaboration with our partners and communities. Working together we are stronger and better equipped to bring about enduring change. It’s why many of our relationships with partners are long-standing.
Through our six-year partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation on the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network we are helping to build climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people. With a not-for-profit humanitarian, development and peacebuilding support organisation, we are helping to improve the speed, quality, resilience and sustainability of infrastructure projects delivered globally.We have partnered with Habitat for Humanity on a number of projects, helping them to respond effectively to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, strengthening their capacity to help slum dwellers in Bangladesh and influencing the future effectiveness of their shelter response to humanitarian crises.
Sharing Knowledge
We believe in sharing new knowledge and lessons learned for the benefit of all. A great example is the City Resilience Framework, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and developed by Arup. Our tool enables cities to understand and measure their adaptability to shocks and stresses, and thus inform and shape urban planning, practice and investment.
Equally, our development of ASPIRE, a software based tool for assessing sustainability and poverty reduction in developing countries, has been used to share learning across countries and programmes.
A strong track record of improved outcomes
With successful outcomes in over 30 countries we have a strong track record of helping many development and humanitarian organisations, and the people they’re mandated to help. Whether this is achieving clarity where there is complexity, greater efficiency, or improving the speed, quality and sustainability of projects.
