Job Description

Job description
Architects play a crucial role in our society, as they design the buildings and environments where we live and work. The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the professional regulator of architects. We maintain a Register to protect the public, so that anyone using an architect's services, or a building designed by an architect, can be reassured that the design has been developed by an appropriate expert.


The Policy and Communications Department is excited to welcome a multiskilled Communications Officer. This is a varied role, and the successful candidate will be developing content such as press releases, website text, and reports. You will need to be highly organised and able to coordinate and ensure the success of reports, launches, consultations, events and more.


If you are an excellent communicator, with experience in promoting campaigns and messages to a wide range of audiences and an interest in how architecture shapes lives, then we want to hear from you.


Please download the job description for more information about the role.


To apply for this role please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages illustrating how your skills and professional experiences meet the requirements of the role.




The closing date is

Monday 4 August

. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.




Interview dates -

Thursday 7 August and Friday 8 August

What we offer in return:


A friendly and supportive company culture Pension and medical cover Great holiday allowance, plus an additional day to be used over the Christmas period.

Here at ARB, we are a small and diverse workforce we want to create a genuinely inclusive workplace, where we embrace the differences of all our colleagues and celebrate diversity. We love to see applications from underrepresented groups and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background.

About Us:

ARB is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act, in 1997. We are accountable to government.


The law gives us a number of core functions:


To ensure only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the architecture qualifications required to join the Register of architects. We maintain a publicly available Register of architects so anyone using the services of an architect can be confident that they are suitably qualified and are fit to practise. We set the standards of conduct and practice the profession must meet and take action when any architect falls below the required standards of conduct or competence. We set requirements for and monitor the continuous professional development that architects must undertake, to provide assurance to the public about the continuing competence of the profession. We protect the legally restricted title 'architect'.

We want a world in which the built environment inspires those who live and work in it, reflects the needs of society so that people are safe and can live well, and helps to tackle the fundamental challenges our planet faces.


The contribution that regulation can make to this overarching purpose may be small, but we recognise that architects and other professionals in the built environment can achieve their own goals, potential and outcomes only if we are delivering effective regulation.