Job Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: Arcadis is seeking a Studio Manager to join our Education Practice within the Architecture & Urbanism division. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape the delivery of innovative education projects across schools, colleges, universities, and science/research facilities in both the public and private sectors. As Studio Manager, you will report to the Practice Group Manager (Education) and play a key role in ensuring operational excellence, workforce optimisation, and alignment with the Global Architecture & Urbanism strategy and financial targets. We are looking for a technically strong and collaborative leader who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about education design. Role accountabilities: Provide effective leadership and oversight of studio operations, ensuring efficiency and quality across all RIBA work stages. Manage resource planning, project delivery, and team performance to meet client and business objectives. Drive continuous improvement in systems, processes, and protocols to enhance operational effectiveness. Collaborate with senior leadership to support strategic growth and client engagement. Lead client development activities and contribute to work-winning, including bid preparation, presentations, and relationship building Qualifications & Experience: Professional qualification: RIBA Chartered Architect or MCIAT. Proven experience delivering sizeable UK education projects, with knowledge of DfE Output Specifications and Building Bulletins. Strong understanding of building regulations, design standards, and best practice. Experience leading smaller projects and contributing to larger schemes as part of a team. Excellent leadership, organisational, and communication skills. Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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