Senior Town Planner - Policy

AECOM; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm is seeking a Senior Planner to lead key planning projects and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. The role offers a hybrid working model and requires significant experience in planning policy development, along with excellent client relations and project management skills. Applicants should hold a relevant degree and professional memberships. Join a dynamic team and contribute to impactful projects.

Benefits

Hybrid work options

Career progression opportunities

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Significant experience in planning policy and strategy development.
• Ability to produce high quality technical reports and communicate effectively.
• Client focus with good interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead on key planning policy projects and strategy development.
• Manage relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Ensure successful project delivery within budget and timelines.
• Contribute to business development and tender preparations.

Skills

Strategic planning advice

Client relations

Project management

Technical report writing

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Town Planning or related discipline

Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or equivalent

Job description

Overview

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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. 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. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other 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.

What you will do

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 with an interesting and diverse workload and opportunities to apply your abilities.

You will work on key planning policy projects, collaborating with 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, with other locations considered including Basingstoke, Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Chesterfield, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, and Plymouth.

We operate a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility between office and home working. This position is available on either a full-time or part-time basis, to suit individual circumstances.

Here's what you'll do:

Responsibilities

• 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 at conferences and 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.

About our team

AECOM is a top ten UK planning consultancy by size, employing more than 70 Chartered or Licentiate Planners. The AECOM Planning Practice handles large, complex UK development and regeneration projects for public and private sector clients. We work closely with other disciplines such as masterplanning, landscape, environment, sustainability, transport and economics. Examples of project work include:

• Sub-Regional Spatial Plans - Leading provider of sub-regional growth studies and evidence base for plans and policy, including work in the OxCam Arc, Thames Estuary, Hertfordshire and the East Midlands. We are thought leaders for new communities and Garden Towns.
• Local Plans - Providing local plan evidence and support to over 100 authorities in the last decade, including evidence base studies, secondments, and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to inform and test policy.
• Strategic Masterplans - Masterplanning Garden Communities totalling almost 100,000 homes, with examples like Southern Manydown and Naas North West Quadrant.
• Neighbourhood Planning - Supporting communities with neighbourhood plans from scoping to adoption and monitoring.

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

Come grow with us.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

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 working approach.
• Existing relationships with clients and local authorities.
• A business development mindset with experience in work winning and developing relationships with existing and new clients.

Skills

• Ability to produce high quality technical reports and excellent communication skills.
• 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 related discipline, and membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or equivalent, or working towards membership.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world\'s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle—from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. 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 environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm with revenue in 2023. See aecom.com for more.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have hybrid work options and a dynamic environment where integrity and initiative are valued. We promote a safe, respectful workplace and welcome diverse talents and backgrounds to create transformational outcomes for clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet diverse needs. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who meet minimum criteria. If you require accommodations, please email [e-mail]. All information is kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.