Director Of Membership & Professional Standards

The Landscape Institution is looking for an experienced Director of Membership & Professional Standards with a passion for the environment and nature to join our Senior Leadership Team at an important time of change and transformation.

The Landscape Institute is the professional home and voice for everyone working in the landscape sector and serves society by upholding the highest professional and technical standards. Our members work every day to balance the social, economic and environmental needs of urban and rural areas to deliver outstanding placemaking and create inclusive, sustainable and healthy communities. 

As a membership body this new role of Director of Membership & Professional Standards will be at the heart of our organisation and is pivotal to the future strategic direction of the Institute and its change programme.

You will have a track record of leading a high-performing innovative membership delivering high levels of member satisfaction and an excellent value proposition which is progressive, market facing and aligned to our Professional Standards and competency framework.

You will lead the development of a long-term business development strategy to grow our membership, extend and improve our services and generate new income streams. You will oversee the change needed to welcome new members into a career in an exciting, rapidly changing and growing, dynamic and innovative sector through a new digital experience whilst continuing to support existing branch membership.

Core to this will be a new future membership and education programme which delivers new clear professional career pathways; supported by Professional Standards and professional development and life-long learning propositions.

This is a chance to make a real difference and if you feel excited by the prospect of helping us to develop the Institute into the best professional membership body it can be we would love to hear from you.