Careers

Professional Development

Boffa Miskell is committed to continued learning and professional development for our staff so that:

  • our clients benefit from our people being up-to-date and at the forefront in their fields of expertise, and
  • our employees advance their careers and personal development by fostering creative thinking and extending their professional skills and knowledge.

We support our people in their professional development by:

  • providing in-house mentoring and training;
  • encouraging and assisting with participatory membership of relevant professional organisations;
  • assisting with external training and relevant further education courses including, in special instances, bonded paid study leave.

Recent study and personal development opportunities for which Boffa Miskell has provided assistance include:

Future Auckland Leaders (two year course) run by the Committee for Auckland:
Emma McKegg, Senior Landscape Architect, Auckland

Te Reo Māori immersion course at Te Wananga Takiura O Nga Kura Kaupapa Māori O Aotearoa, and Certificate of Iwi Environmental Management at Te Wananga O Aotearoa:
Phil Wihongi, Landscape Architect/Planner, Auckland

PhD research in environmental science, Auckland University:
Jamie Steer, Ecologist, Auckland

Sustainability, Business and Social & Environmental Accountability post-graduate proficiency commerce course, University of Canterbury:
Pene Burns, Sustainability Advisor, Christchurch

The Challenges of Leadership, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University:
Boyden Evans, Director, Wellington; Pete Summers, Director, Christchurch; Rachel de Lambert, Director, Auckland

Master Planning: Creating Communities, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University:
Rachel de Lambert, Director, Auckland; Marc Baily, Director, Wellington; Craig Batchelar, Director, Tauranga; Nicola Rykers, Director, Christchurch

Neighbourhood Planning short courses, Urban Land Institute, USA:
Don Miskell, Director, Christchurch; Rachel de Lambert, Director, Auckland

Urban Land Institute conferences, USA:
Don Miskell, Director, Christchurch; Rachel de Lambert, Director, Auckland

Master in Architecture in Urban Design, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, London:
Stuart Houghton, Landscape Architect, on leave of absence from Auckland under a Boffa Miskell Study Award .