Landscape Writing Specialist
Hastings, Hawkes Bay
Wayfinder is a small practice with great projects. We are looking for a landscape architect who is or is keen to be a specialist in strategic planning, landscape assessment and writing for these projects.
Based in Hastings, Wayfinder works with clients across the country to help them plan, design, consent and develop these projects. This includes a wide range of renewable energy projects (wind, solar and hydro), transmission and telecommunication projects, and land development. Primarily our work relates to the design or assessment of projects, but we are also heavily involved with public, stakeholder and mana whenua engagement.
We are, and wish to remain, a specialist landscape architecture business. We work closely with a network of related professionals, including planners, engineers, surveyors, architects and lawyers. We regularly come together as a multidisciplinary team, and we have shared client relationships. We are proud of our team values. We work closely together, in an office environment, where everyone openly shares and contributes to the work we deliver as a team. Most of our work is generated through client relationships, which we maintain through focussing on project values, engagement and quality communication. We like to think of our work as storytelling, and we seek out ways to help clients and stakeholders build mental pictures of proposals and their outcomes.
We work hard, drink coffee, eat chocolate, leave our shoes under our desks, love our weekends and share the office with our dogs.
Our perfect candidate will assist our clients through the master-planning and consenting stages of their projects. We think of this person as a landscape architect at their core, but who has skills in capturing and explaining narratives through language and writing. A solid understanding of Māori cultural values is important.
Collectively the team will provide the support you need through the development of appropriate imagery, including maps, ZTVs, visualisations, 3D modelling and augmented reality – as appropriate to the project. We need someone who can manage client relationships directly, and work with the team to build and maintain our client base. National travel will be regularly required to undertake site work and attend hearings.
Once you’re embedded into the team, we can discuss the opportunity to take part in the business-funded employee share scheme that leads to partial ownership. We can also consider what longer-term contributions to the business might look like, which could include directorship opportunities. We of course provide a competitive remuneration package.
We have a great office in central Hastings. We have flexible working arrangements, but you will need to be based in Hawke’s Bay and you will be expected in the office most days. Working together is a core value of our business, and we are looking for someone who is collaborative and willing to adapt to the work we need to deliver for our clients.
If you’re interested in joining our team, please send us an email letting us know your capabilities, your interests, a little bit about yourself and why you think a move to Wayfinder would be right for you.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Moana Potaka
Practice Manager
moana@wayfinder.nz
