Opportunities from within the HLC Network

One of the strengths of HLC is the calibre and diversity of expertise within our community. This month, three opportunities have surfaced through our network — each offering a chance to apply landscape thinking in meaningful humanitarian contexts.

If you’re ready to contribute your expertise where it matters, explore the opportunities below.

Applications for all opportunities end between the 5th-8th March 2026.

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🌿 Opportunity 1: Represent HLC at the Humanitarian–Nature Learning Lab (HNPW 2026)

Key Details

Type: Institutional representation

Format: Hybrid (Geneva or virtual)

Date: 12 March | 16:00–17:30 (Geneva time)

Role: Breakout Co-Facilitator (1–2 members)

Application deadline: 5th March 2026

Overview

HLC has been invited to contribute to the Humanitarian–Nature Learning Lab: Regenerative & Landscape Design for Humanitarian Response at HNPW 2026.

The session focuses on how regenerative design and landscape-scale approaches can strengthen humanitarian systems beyond site-level interventions - see agenda and structure.

This is a practitioner-led global forum.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver a 10-minute lightning introduction (organisation, context, tools/case examples)

• Co-lead a 75-minute breakout discussion

• Contribute to plenary reflections

Who This Is For

Members with:

• Direct humanitarian or displacement experience

• Applied regenerative or landscape-scale design experience

• Confidence facilitating practitioner dialogue

• Capacity to represent HLC clearly and professionally

Expression of Interest

If you are interested in participating then please email humanitarianlc@gmail.com by 5th March.

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🌍 Opportunity 2: CAD + GIS Collaboration on Humanitarian Design Project (Somalia)

Key Details

Type: Paid consultancy (hourly)

Location: Remote

Start: Mid-March

Engagement: Intermittent, project-based

Overview

Resilience Design Consulting is seeking an independent CAD drafter with GIS capability to support humanitarian design work in fragile contexts.

They are currently supporting UN IOM in Somalia on the design of an IDP relocation village, translating systems-based, hand-drawn resilience design sketches into clear, communicable CAD drawings integrating:

• Landform and hydrology

• Settlement layout

• Ecological infrastructure

• Food and water systems

• GIS-informed spatial thinking

What you’ll do:

• Convert hand-drawn resilience design sketches into professional CAD drawings

• Work with geolocated base maps and spatial data

• Communicate systems logic clearly through spatial representation

Who This Is For

Professionals with:

• Strong CAD capability (AutoCAD, Rhino, Vectorworks or similar)

• GIS literacy (QGIS, ArcGIS or comparable)

• Experience translating conceptual work into technical outputs

• Interest in humanitarian and ecological design contexts

Compensation

• Hourly consultancy engagement

• Candidates to propose their rate

• Scope varies by project phase

How to Apply

Submit:

• Short portfolio/sample drawings

• Brief introduction (experience, hourly rate, availability)

Expression of Interest

If interested, please email humanitarianlc@gmail.com by 8th March. We will make introductions following a short alignment check.

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✏️ Opportunity 3: Landscape Architect – Post-Conflict Regenerative Design (Competition)

Type: Collaborative competition entry (unpaid) Competition: Rifat Chadirji Prize 2026 – Right to Landscape Deadline: 31 July 2026 Time Commitment: Approx. 2 hours/week Meeting Time: Tuesdays, 11:00–12:30 GMT (remote) Compensation: Unpaid (potential award if shortlisted top three)

Overview

An interdisciplinary team is seeking a landscape architect with experience in regenerative design in conflict-affected contexts (Middle East preferred but not essential) to join their submission for the Rifat Chadirji Prize 2026. The proposal explores how landscape architecture can support recovery and resilience in post-war environment. See the brief here.

The team currently includes four members with experience in:

• Urban design

• Landscape architecture

• Cultural heritage

• Climate-responsive design

They are in the exploration and analysis phase, with a defined work timeline in place.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to conceptual and landscape-led design development

• Integrate regenerative and systems-based thinking

• Help shape a design-driven submission responding to heritage, political context and climate change

• Participate in weekly coordination meetings (Tuesdays, GMT)

Who This Is For

Landscape architects with:

• Experience in conflict or post-conflict environments

• Regenerative or landscape-scale systems expertise

• Interest in design-led responses to recovery and resilience

• Availability for weekly remote collaboration

Team members are currently based in Italy, Brazil and the UK, so reasonable GMT overlap is required.

Expression of Interest

If interested, please contact the HLC admin team at humanitarianlc@gmail.com by 8th March.We will connect suitable members directly with the team.