Senior Town Planner

RPS Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

RPS Group is seeking a Senior Town Planner to enhance the Planning Team in Birmingham or Manchester. This role involves managing planning applications across diverse projects, aiding in business development, and fostering a progressive career path with strong support for professional development.

Benefits

Accredited training provider

Supporting learning and development

Flexible working options

Transparent career pathway

Qualifications

• Experience in a planning consultancy or local government role.
• Familiarity with planning policy.
• Experience working in a planning policy role preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supporting strategic planning work, including planning strategies.
• Preparing Planning Statements and representations for Local Plans.
• Engaging in business development initiatives.

Skills

Attention to detail

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Written and oral communication

Market awareness

Education

RTPI chartered town planner

Job description

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RPS is looking for a Senior Town Planner to join our Planning Team based in Birmingham or Manchester. The range of work on offer is wide and varied and will provide you with rich experience in town planning.

Working alongside a range of multi-disciplinary services within a team of planning experts, you’ll have the opportunity to support and deliver on a broad range of planning applications including residential, mixed-use developments, data centres, airports, retail, logistics and major infrastructure projects

With our planning service at the heart of the business, the role will give you a progressive step-up in managing planning casework independently and help towards defining a career pathway towards promotion.

We’re RPS, our projects are all around you. We define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. Here you’ll find work that is challenging and rewarding, and you’ll be supported every step of the way.

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll be supporting our strategic planning work, which includes the preparation of representations to Local Plan consultations and developing planning strategies to promote land and development for inclusion in Local Plans.
• Supporting Planning Directors’ in successfully delivering their planning caseload, including preparing Planning Statements and representations to Local Plan consultations.
• Developing your written and oral communication skills
• Directly engaging in our business development initiatives
• Actively supporting our Planners, Assistant Planners, Graduates and Apprentices
• Contributing/ engaging in our Prospects Planning Group

Who we’re looking for:

• A fully qualified RTPI chartered town planner, with experience in a planning consultancy or local government role
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• A passion for planning, development and environmental issues
• A good working knowledge of planning policy
• Attention to detail and a proactive mindset
• A strategic thinker and someone who can readily problem solve
• A market awareness and a good understanding of local planning issues
• Experience working in a planning policy role would be an advantage and/or experience in a city/urban planning environment within the Birmingham or Manchester region

What’s in it for you?

We’re an accredited training provider – from entry level to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we support learning and development for everyone.

A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.

We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.

We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working.

A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, you’re part of the solution.

What happens next?

The Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application. If your application is progressed, you’ll have a conversation with one of our recruiters prior to an interview with the Team. All applications will be considered.

RPS, A Tetra Tech company:

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With over 28,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.

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Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Mindful that a truly inclusive organization must make appropriate use of talent on a global basis and without unnecessary barriers, we are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion principles in all People processes in order to be as diverse as the communities and clients we work with, thereby securing, developing, and retaining the best available talent for the company’s future.

Our approach to Diversity and inclusion
Our people live our purpose, deliver our promise, and demonstrate our behaviours every day. Our behaviours define who we are. Developed by our people, they underpin everything that we do. They create the memorable experiences we are known for and make RPS a great place to do great work.
‘Stronger Together’ is one of our five core behaviours and it is inherent in creating an inclusive workplace:
‘We are respectful, acknowledge diversity, and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. We bring out the best in one another, always assuming best intent. People who learn and grow thrive in our business, sharing in our success.’

Recruitment Agencies
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