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Vacancy: Temporary Architect Board Members x 2 (Temporary Architect Board Members)
Contract: Temporary
Terms of Engagement: Up to 12 months initially
Time commitment: Circa 20 days per annum
Remuneration: £10,000 per annum, paid in monthly instalments
Description
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the statutory regulator of architects in the UK, under the terms of the Architects Act 1997.
We are recruiting for two temporary ARB Board member to fill two architect vacancies. This is an opportunity for the organisation to enhance the current composition of the Board with candidates who are able to broaden the range of perspective and experience available within the Board.
Applicants must be registered with ARB. Essential criteria include having an understanding of the impact of regulation on large and small practices, and industry, as well as experience of working within committee or governance processes that include setting strategy and policy. This could include operating in private sector board and committee environments but could also include operating within education governor roles, or public sector or charity trustee boards, as well as other governance arrangements which involve holding organisations to account. Please refer to the candidate pack for further details.
Application process
If this opportunity interests you, please submit a CV and supporting statement to be considered for the role. Please refer to the ARB Information for Applicants for information to support you in making an application.
Want to know more?
We will be hosting two online information sessions on Wednesday, 22 October 2025 at 12.30pm – 1.30pm and on Thursday, 30 October 2025 at 9.30am – 10.30am for any candidates that are interested in finding out more about the position. Please email governance@arb.org.uk to register your interest and book your place on one of the slots.
Timetable
- Closing date – 3 November 2025 at 11.59am
- Shortlisting Outcome – 28 November 2025
- Interviews – 8 and 12 December 2025
We welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and under-represented groups. ARB celebrates diversity. We look forward to receiving your application.
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.