Graduate Consultant - London

Buro Happold Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Job summary

Buro Happold Limited in London is offering a Graduate Strategic Planning Consultant role within its Urban Strategies team. You will help design resilient, low-carbon city solutions by working with engineers, planners and consultants on projects spanning urban development, infrastructure planning and environmental analysis.

Your early career development is supported through graduate programmes and mentoring, with flexible hours and hybrid working to help you balance study and work while

Qualifications

• Recent graduate or final year student in Geography, Urban Planning or related fields.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work independently and in a team.
• Interest in urban informatics, data science and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) would be desirable.

Responsibilities

• Under appropriate guidance, take responsibility for day-to-day tasks.
• Collaborate with senior staff and liaise with external sub-consultants where appropriate.
• Undertake work on detailed urban and regional planning frameworks and geo-spatial analyses.
• Develop planning models using MS Excel or other packages.
• Support learning and development to build capability within the team.
• Help ensure timely delivery of high-quality client reports and outputs.
• Ensure rigorous analysis and outputs are produced for each project.

Skills

Strong communication

Teamwork

Independent worker

Data literacy

Geography knowledge

Education

Geography

Urban Planning

Town planning

Social science

Environmental science

GIS

Architecture

Real estate

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

InDesign

Illustrator

GIS software

Job description

Graduate Strategic Planning Consultant

Join our collaborative Urban Strategies consulting team and help design solutions that make cities and communities more resilient. From transforming cities to tackling the climate emergency, you’ll play a vital role in creating a low-carbon and resilient future.

Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship now or in the future for graduate level roles, so candidates must have the full right to work in the UK upon application (now and in the future). We encourage you to explore early careers opportunities in our other regions where you hold full work rights, such as the EU, India, UAE, KSA, and others. If no suitable roles are currently open, we recommend creating an account on our careers page and setting up a job alert to stay informed as new opportunities become available.

Join our Consulting team

An exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Graduate to join our London team! Buro Happold's Urban Strategies team brings together the expertise of world class engineers, urban planners, and consultants to examine cities from a variety of angles, giving our clients a unique picture of the challenges to tackle and the assets and opportunities their city can capitalise on. Working on a diverse range of fascinating projects that cover urban development, infrastructure planning and design, resource management, and programme delivery, our Cities business unit is at the forefront of innovation in the urban environment.

Our current portfolio includes diverse city projects and programmes globally. We are working with city leaders to examine the obstacles in the way of their vision, defining the strategies and programmes to make concrete progress. Our work helps cities to enhance their plans, programmes and practices enabling cities to deliver tangible improvements to quality of life for the benefit of all citizens.

In keeping with our technical background, all our analysis and strategy development is underpinned by the full range of deep infrastructure design, engineering and environmental analysis available across our practice.

What sort of projects will I work on?

• Supporting Cambridge to review the long-term growth potential of the city and providing recommendations on the appropriate delivery and governance models to take this forward
• Setting a spatial framework for unlocking future housing and employment development adjacent to the Oxford Cowley rail line
• Preparing a detailed masterplan for the Riyadh Expo 2030 Event and preparing a legacy masterplan for the future development of the site into a new city quarter following the Event
• Working with the Government of Uzbekistan to develop two regional spatial strategies and city spatial plans for six cities, to underpin a new housing delivery programme that promotes compact, resilient urban development.

What will I do?

• Under appropriate guidance, take responsibility for the day-to-day completion of tasks.
• Work in conjunction with senior staff and liaising with external sub-consultants where appropriate.
• Undertake work on detailed urban and regional planning frameworks and associated analyses (including geo-spatial analysis).
• Development of relevant planning models using MS Excel or other packages.
• Participate in learning and development initiatives to build own capability and to ensure skills are disseminated in the team.
• Help ensure the timely delivery of high-quality reports, presentations and other client outputs.
• Help ensure that rigorous analysis and outputs are produced for each project.

We would like to hear from you if you are studying (or have graduated) in any of the below degrees:

• Knowledge from a degree such as Geography, Urban Planning, town planning, social science, environmental science, geographic information systems, architecture or real estate;
• A keen interest and appreciation of urban/city challenges and the value of providing a spatial understanding and integrated offer (including planning, economics, and technical infrastructure and environmental expertise).
• Strong communication skills and an ability to work well independently and also in a team;
• Interest or skills in urban informatics, data science, statistical packages and/or business intelligence software (MS Power BI, Tableau) would be desirable
• Design and mapping skills with experience and skills using packages such as InDesign, Illustrator and GIS software packages.

Graduates at Buro Happold

When you join Buro Happold you are embedded into an exciting network of engineers and consultants, that supports your career development. We have a Graduate Connect learning programme that targets specific learning and supports your journey to chartership as well as our Young Employee's Forum that links all our young talent in terms of knowledge sharing, learning and very importantly socialising.

We place great importance on a having a safe and inclusive environment and will seek to make any arrangements that may be required to enable all who work with us to thrive. We have flexible working hours and hybrid working, and welcome applications from all backgrounds and walks of life.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment.

We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another.

Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.