Senior Town Planner - Policy

AECOM; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm is seeking a senior planner to lead planning policy projects and engage with clients and stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in planning strategy development and a collaborative approach. This position offers hybrid working options and opportunities for career progression within a supportive culture.

Benefits

Hybrid working options

Career progression opportunities

Diversity and inclusion commitment

Qualifications

• Significant relevant experience leading and contributing to planning policy and strategy development.
• Existing relationships with clients and local authorities.
• A business development mindset with experience in work winning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and assist on key planning policy projects.
• Ensure projects are delivered successfully on budget and within timelines.
• Contribute to business development strategy.

Skills

Client focus

Interpersonal skills

Ability to produce high-quality reports

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Degree in Town Planning or related discipline

Job description

Overview

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Due to a significant increase in planning policy project wins and new opportunities, we are looking to recruit a senior planner. You will join a great team, have an interesting and diverse workload, and be given the opportunity to make the most of your abilities.

You will be able to work on key planning policy projects, working alongside multi-disciplinary teams and engaging directly with clients and stakeholders to secure successful planning outcomes. There will also be opportunities to work on infrastructure and development projects within the Planning team.

You will be based in our flagship London Aldgate Tower office, though other locations may be considered, including Basingstoke, Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Chesterfield, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, and Plymouth.

We operate a hybrid working model, giving you the flexibility to balance time between our office and working from home, depending on your needs and the requirements of the role. This position is available on either a full-time or part-time basis, allowing us to tailor the role to suit your individual circumstances.

Here's what you'll do:

Planning Strategy and Expertise

• Lead and assist on key planning policy projects, including supporting local authority policy and strategy development, coordination and delivery of local plan evidence studies, strategic growth studies, infrastructure strategies and other policy and strategy commissions.
• Offer strategic planning advice to other client and internal teams.
• Provide effective representation for the organisation, developing and managing relationships with clients, local authorities and other stakeholders through project work and attendance at conferences and other networking events.
• Share technical knowledge and excellence.

Project Management

• Ensure projects are delivered successfully on budget and within programme timelines.
• Assist in coordinating multi-disciplinary teams for seamless project execution.

Quality Assurance and Compliance

• Contribute to deliverables produced by the planning policy team.
• Implement and uphold quality assurance and health and safety principles.

Business Development

• Contribute to the business development strategy, nurturing client relationships.
• Lead and assist in the preparation of commercial tenders to secure new opportunities.

Does this sound like something you can do, and do well? If so, read on...

About our team

AECOM is a top ten UK planning consultancy by size, employing more than 70 Chartered or Licentiate Planners. The Planning Practice projects include some of the largest, most complex and high profile development and regeneration projects in the UK for both public and private sector clients. We work closely with colleagues in other related disciplines, including masterplanning, landscape, environment, sustainability, transport and economics.

• Sub-Regional Spatial Plans - AECOM provides sub-regional growth studies and evidence base for plans and policy (including our strategic planning work in OxCam Arc, Thames Estuary, Hertfordshire and the East Midlands).
• Local Plans - Providing local planning authorities with local plan evidence and support; we've worked on the local plans of over 100 authorities in the last decade.
• Strategic Masterplans - Masterplanned new Garden Communities totalling almost 100,000 homes, with examples including Southern Manydown and Naas North West Quadrant.
• Neighbourhood Planning - Supported several hundred local communities with neighbourhood plan making, from scoping to plan production and delivery.

Joining AECOM provides opportunities for career progression within a positive culture where learning and development is actively supported.

Come grow with us.

Qualifications

Experience

• Significant relevant experience leading and contributing to planning policy and strategy development in a consultancy or public sector role.

Client & Stakeholder Relations

• Client focus with good interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach.
• Existing relationships with clients and local authorities.
• A business development mindset with experience of work winning and developing client relationships.

Skills

• Ability to produce high-quality technical reports and communicate effectively.
• Ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure.

Quality & Commitment

• High level of commitment to quality.

Education & Professional Memberships

• Degree in Town Planning or a related discipline, and membership of RTPI or equivalent, or working towards membership.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, contact the recruiter on LinkedIn (annemarieflynn).

About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering services throughout the project lifecycle. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to ESG priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have hybrid work options and the flexibility to work from an office, remote location, or client site. We encourage a safe, respectful workplace where everyone can bring their whole selves to work.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs. We are a global firm working together to support your growth and success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will help you reach your potential.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria. Please contact [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.