Senior Town Planner - Policy

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 plans including 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 through attendance at conferences and other networking events.
• Sharing 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.

This role contributes to creating sustainable communities and places where people want to live and invest over the long term through strategic planning policy work, including masterplanning new Garden Communities and supporting local planning authorities with evidence-based policy development.

• Senior-level planning experience with expertise in planning policy projects
• Experience supporting local authority policy and strategy development, including local plans, evidence studies, and strategic growth studies
• Ability to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and manage stakeholder relationships
• Experience in business development, including preparing commercial tenders and nurturing client relationships

• Hybrid working model with flexibility to balance time between office and home
• Available on either full-time or part-time basis to suit individual circumstances
• Opportunities for career progression within a positive culture
• Active support and promotion of learning and development

AECOM is a top ten UK planning consultancy that works on some of the largest, most complex and high-profile development and regeneration projects in the UK for both public and private sector clients, focusing on creating sustainable communities through strategic planning, masterplanning, and evidence-based policy work.