Senior Town Planning Consultant Policy

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We are looking to recruit a Senior Planner with experience in policy and/or strategic planning. You will play a role in managing projects engaging directly with clients and stakeholders to secure successful planning outcomes. Work portfolios are managed to ensure that all staff experience a breadth and depth of project opportunities including planmaking at all scales and may also include some development management energy and infrastructure projects.You will be based in our flagship Aldgate Tower Office working alongside multidisciplinary teams. We are based minutes from Spitalfields Market in the heart of East London. Flexible working arrangements would apply with the ability to work both from home and the Aldgate Office. We envisage that the role would involve a mix of officebased working and working from home for the foreseeable future.

Heres what youll do:

Planning Strategy and Policy Development

• Provide specific technical expertise including planning research and analysis often working within a team of planners urban designers landscape architects engineers and others to contribute to planning policy projects and strategies including local plan evidence base.

Project Coordination and Management

• Lead the management of small and medium sized projects and contribute to the successful management of larger projects with some responsibility for budget programme and general project performance. Ensure compliance with the companys Quality Assurance policies and procedures.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

• Provide effective representation for the organisation developing and managing relationships with clients local authorities and other stakeholders through project work and through attendance at conferences and other networking events.
• Sharing technical knowledge and excellence.

Business Development and Operations

• Support others in the team to identify and pursue business development opportunities and support the growth of the business through new and repeat clients. Contribute to proposals and qualification documents to secure new commissions.
• Participate in the successful operation and management of the town planning team

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 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 are a dynamic planning team and work closely with colleagues in other related disciplines including masterplanning landscape environment sustainability transport and economics.  Examples of our project work include:

• SubRegional Spatial Plans AECOM is a leading provider of subregional growth studies and evidence base for plans and policy (including our strategic planning work in the OxCam Arc Thames Estuary Hertfordshire and the East Midlands). For many years we have also been thought leaders and enablers for new communities and Garden Towns (including research for MHCLG Local Government Association and Town and Country Planning Association).
• Local Plans We have worked on the local plans of over 100 local planning authorities in the last decade. This includes the full range of evidence base studies secondments critical friend and sustainability appraisals where we are market leaders.
• Strategic Masterplans We have masterplanned new Garden Communities totalling almost 100000 homes (with current examples including Southern Manydown in Basingstoke and Naas North West Quadrant in Ireland). Our work continues to create places where people want to live and invest over the long term.
• Neighbourhood Planning Since 2011 we have supported several hundred local communities with their neighbourhood plan making. We offer expertise across all aspects of the planmaking process from scoping and robust evidence base production to stakeholder engagement appraisal and option development to plan production design delivery adoption monitoring; as well as overall project and process management.

Joining AECOM will provide you with opportunities for career progression within a positive culture where learning and development is actively supported and promoted. 

Come grow with us.

Qualifications :

Ready to push the limits of whats possible

Heres what were looking for:

• Degree qualified in a relevant discipline (accredited to allow RPTI membership)
• Proven postgraduate experience in a town planning team
• Sound knowledge of UK Planning policy and legislation.
• Experience managing small and mediumsized projects
• A hard working and highly motivated individual with excellent communication presentation and report writing skills.
• Ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure
• Client focused with good interpersonal skills and collaborative approach with a high level of commitment to quality.
• Commercial awareness
• Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute MRTPI (Full membership or eligible and on pathway to membership)

Additional Information :

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We celebrate diversity including neurodiversity and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process please contact us at 

At AECOM we value everyones unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us we would be delighted to hear from you!

About AECOM

AECOM is the worlds trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation buildings water new energy and the environment our public and privatesector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled 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 and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation benefits and wellbeing programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industryleading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

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