PRD is a place-based consultancy helping people, businesses and communities realise their potential. We work across economic strategy, social value, investment, regeneration and development, turning evidence into action that makes places better.

We understand traditional ways of delivering things, but we challenge those traditions to find innovative, integrated pathways to solve the challenges our towns and communities face.  

We are seeking experienced leaders who have a desire to further their property careers in a dynamic multi-disciplinary environment and to consider property and the built environment differently.

A PDF version of this job post is available here.

The opportunity

We are looking for an Associate Director, Senior Associate Director, or Director to play a lead role in developing our property, investment, and delivery offer. 

We want to hear from passionate, well-networked candidates seeking to develop the next stage of their career in a creative and fast-moving environment which values fresh perspectives on how property development, assets and land work for clients, partners and communities.

Property is a fundamental pillar of what we do at PRD. Our property work involves:

• bringing an appreciation of development to our ideas for projects and places
• identifying strategic investment opportunities
• reshaping the role of the public sector in property and building local capacity
• optimising limited resources
• making applications for funding to support projects
• consideration of the role of assets and property within masterplans and other place-oriented initiatives
• championing asset re-use and re-purposing
• creative approaches to portfolio investment and management
• thinking differently about the role that property can play in places considering net zero and sustainability challenges
• identifying opportunities for value creation and designing inward investment strategies
• building property strategies informed by evidence and data
• considering practical and realisable steps for onward delivery  

Salary & benefits

• We operate hybrid working arrangements. We are based in London but service projects throughout the UK and Ireland. Regular in-person attendance in London is essential (3 days per week, including Wednesdays) but our employees need not be London-based​
• Base salary from £54,000 (Associate Director) upwards, depending on experience and level of appointment (Associate Director to Director)
• Employer pension contribution of 5% gross salary​
• Profit-linked bonus based on personal and company performance
• 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays)​
• Health plan benefits
• Annual overnight company away day​
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave ​
• Paid sabbatical after long service ​
• Cycle to work scheme​
• Company Tate membership
• Structured career progression plan and budget for training and professional development ​
• Ringfenced CSR time

About you

You are an exceptional property and development professional who is either ready to step up or is already undertaking a senior leadership role in a consultancy or industry-adjacent role. You will lead PRD’s property offer, shaping how we deploy development expertise across public, private and civil society clients and acting as a senior voice in complex, multi-disciplinary projects.

You will take ownership of projects, work-winning and client relationships, bringing the commercial and technical rigour needed to deliver high-quality development and strategy work. You will direct research and analysis, guide multi-disciplinary teams, and be accountable for the quality of PRD’s outputs. You will bring structure and diligence without losing sight of the bigger picture.

You will actively grow PRD’s pipeline, bringing an established network of contacts and collaborators and the confidence to generate opportunities, lead bids and build new client relationships. Business development as a core and natural part of your professional life, not a separate task.

You will play a significant role in developing our junior team, fostering a high-performance culture and helping PRD continue to attract and retain excellent people. You lead in a way that raises colleagues, clients, and yourself, being generous with your knowledge and remaining open to new ideas and being challenged.

You are genuinely curious about how PRD approaches its work and energised by the prospect of operating in a consultancy that breaks with convention and is committed to doing things in a better way for places and people.

Essential attributes

• 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in property development, regeneration or development economics from the consultancy or client side, with the seniority to be appointed at Associate Director to Director level
• A professional qualification from RICS, RTPI or equivalent and ongoing commitment to professional development
• An established network spanning public sector clients, developers, investors or Combined Authorities that PRD could actively benefit from
• Experience leading client relationships at a senior level, with the gravitas and judgement to provide credible, high-value advice
• A genuine passion for regeneration, cities and the built environment, and an appetite for thinking critically about how property can work harder for places and communities
• Comfortable operating in conditions of complexity and uncertainty and driven to find solutions to complex problems
• A confident communicator with strong personal presence, able to engage credibly with senior clients, partners, public officials and communities
• Strong technical diligence with a deep understanding of development economics, funding structures, land and property markets, and the realities of delivering complex projects
• Strong analytical skills, including constructing and interrogating development appraisals, interpreting property market evidence and developing robust investment cases
• Excellent written skills and able to produce content that is clear, persuasive and fit for senior audiences

Desirable attributes

• Experience securing public sector funding – including Homes England, MHCLG or combined authority programmes – and an understanding of how funding strategies shape development viability
• Proficiency in development appraisal in Excel or Argus
• Familiarity with Green Book business case methodology

Behaviours & competencies

Leadership: bringing confidence to support colleagues to grow their skills and experience, to support clients to make decisions in a fast-changing and uncertain economy, and to develop new business opportunities and relationships

Organisation: ability to lead different projects and activities, delegate and direct tasks, and effectively balance fee-earning and non-fee-earning work

Collaboration: ability to thrive in small teams where you can lead, empower, and develop teammates; ability to work with external partners to develop and steer projects

Interpersonal skills: ability to communicate complex ideas and information in person and in writing, develop strong relationships with senior-level clients and partners, and develop clear and persuasive arguments for particular approaches

Analytical thinking: ability to draw insights and stories from evidence and to link your analysis to client needs and opportunities

Problem solving: taking the initiative to overcome challenges and develop new ideas to move projects and ideas forward

Delivering a variety of quality work at pace: ensuring consistently high quality in the outputs you are directing in line with PRD brand and tone of voice guidelines

About PRD

PRD is an award-winning, B Corp certified regeneration consultancy. Founded over 13 years ago, we work at the intersection of infrastructure, development, economics and place, helping partners move from evidence to action and strategy to delivery.

We are independent, delivery-focused and genuinely different in how we approach our work. We don’t just produce reports – we build strategies based on robust evidence and we stay in the room until things happen. That means building client capacity and identifying the funding and governance structures that make ambitious projects viable and deliverable.

Our work coalesces around three main pillars which create better places and lasting impact:

Tackling the housing crisis: unlocking land, funding and delivery models to get homes built where they’re needed most.

Enabling growth and prosperity: building the economic and infrastructure cases that attract investment and create lasting opportunity for places and their communities.

Unlocking impact and social value: ensuring development works for the communities it touches, not just around them.

We are a values-driven company

Our work is always…

• Useful & useable
• Positively disruptive

Our work supports…

• Fairness in places & communities
• A just transition to net zero

We do this by being…

• Collaborative
• Agile
• Generous with our knowledge

Hallmarks of our approach

We…

• are creative in the way we approach our work and relationships
• use our multi-disciplinary expertise to drive innovation and better outcomes
• support our clients to help them mobilise the strategies we develop together
• are values driven in the work we chose to do, how we do it and how we treat each other are committed to creating a positive work environment where everyone is supported to reach their full potential (including opportunities for training and personal development)
• are proud of our record of delivering projects that have enabled local people to shape the places they live, work and study and have created more inclusive and prosperous places
• listen to communities and respond to their ideas, aspirations, and concerns
• are committed to considering people and planet in everything we do
• stay at the cutting edge, keeping plenty of exciting projects and opportunities underway and on the horizon
• come from broad range of technical backgrounds, bringing different perspectives to our work and opportunities for team knowledge sharing

Example projects

Please see the PDF version of the job spec for project examples.

• Peterborough development atlas
• Worcester Shrub Hill
• Gravesham regeneration vision
• Norwich & East Norwich economic visions
• Margate Town Investment Plan & Creative Land Trust
• Southwark Land Commission

Application process

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, faith or disability. If you have particular accessibility needs, please get in touch and let us know any requirements you may have. We are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments.​

You must have the right to work in the UK without requiring employer sponsorship.

If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact Martin Woodhouse (martin.woodhouse@prdemail.co.uk).

Direct applications only please, no recruiters.

​Part 1

Send the following items to careers@prdemail.co.uk with PROPERTY in the subject line by 9 am on 22 July 2026. You do not need to supply a cover letter.

1. CV (max two pages)

2. Confirmation of your right to work in the UK

3. Responses to the following questions:

• Tell us about two commissions or projects where you played a senior leadership role. For each, tell us what you were responsible for, what made it complex or challenging, and what you personally delivered. We want to understand your depth of experience, your commercial judgement and what distinguishes your approach. (max 250 words per example)
• PRD operates differently from most consultancies. Tell us what, in your view, is most broken about how the property and development sector currently operates in places, and how you would approach it differently. We want to see your strategic thinking, your values and your appetite for doing things in a better way. (max 400 words)

Part 2

Complete the Equalities Monitoring Form. This form is separated from the rest of your job application upon receipt and will not be considered as part of the shortlisting or appointment process. Your application will not be considered complete unless this form has been submitted. If you do not wish to provide some of this information, there is an option within the form to select ‘Prefer not to say’.​