Job Description

Full job descriptionAlaro City is a joint venture between Rendeavour, the largest new city and industrial park builder in Africa, and the Lagos State Government. It is one of the fastest growing real estate and urban development projects in Nigeria. It is conceived on 2,000 hectares of land and has areas for offices, logistics and warehousing, homes, schools, healthcare facilities, hotels, entertainment and 150 hectares of parks and open spaces.Located in the North West Quadrant of the Lekki Free Zone, Alaro City is ideally situated on the Lekki-Epe Expressway for ease of transportation to Lagos or towards the rest of Nigeria.Alaro City is a secure, predictable and proven environment for individuals and businesses, and already home to investments by notable global and local business such as BUA Group, CAT (Mantrac), Ariel Foods, Kenol, SANA Group and international real estate developers and investors.It is in close proximity to the future Lagos international airport and close to the region’s largest deep sea port and major Nigerian and international companies.The people in our team are multi-skilled and experts in their respective fields. They possess a unique drive, underpinned by the desire to help improve Africa’s urban development. RESPONSIBILITIESUnder the guidance of the Group Head of Urban Planning and Design, theSenior Urban Designer will be a dynamic urban development professional holding accredited qualifications in architecture, landscape architecture or urban planning & design. The role will encompass all aspects of research, concept design, documentation, quality control, project management, and client negotiation and management. The Senior Urban Designer is required to work with leadership to manage the design concepts that are developed for a project and protect and sustain them through the project stages until the project is finalised. These will involve a mix of managing in-house designs and/or managing outsource designs with external consultants. Working with the Urban design team to develop new, and evolve current, city masterplans based on input from the senior management team and other stakeholders, as well ensure that the plan is in compliance with local statutory legislation.Create key ‘Place Strategy’ documents including but not limited to; Art & Culture, Sport & Recreation, Health & Wellbeing, Education & Training, Retail & Commercial, Community & Residential, Open Space & Public Realm.Prepare detailed CAD based Physical plans, Precinct Plans plans, and neighbourhood plans, as well as physical layout plans for yield projections of residential, commercial, institutional, recreational and light industrial areas.Prepare key strategic documents such as Urban Design Frameworks (UDF’s)