Senior Town Planner - Policy

About the Role

The role involves leading and assisting on key planning policy projects, providing strategic planning advice, and representing the organisation to clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Ensure projects are delivered successfully on budget and within programme timelines.
• Assist in coordinating multi-disciplinary teams for seamless project execution.
• Contribute to deliverables produced by the planning policy team.
• Implement and uphold quality assurance and health and safety principles.
• Contribute to the business development strategy, nurturing client relationships.
• Lead and assist in the preparation of commercial tenders to secure new opportunities.

Requirements

No specific requirements are listed for this role.

Benefits

No benefits are listed for this role.

This role contributes to creating sustainable communities and places where people want to live and invest over the long term through strategic planning, policy development, and masterplanning of new Garden Communities and development projects.

• Senior-level planning experience (implied by "senior planner" title and responsibilities)
• Experience with planning policy projects, local authority policy development, and local plan coordination
• Ability to lead projects and manage multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong relationship management skills with clients, local authorities, and stakeholders
• Business development and tender preparation experience

• Hybrid working model with flexibility to balance office and home working
• Available on either full-time or part-time basis to suit individual circumstances
• Opportunities for career progression within a positive culture
• Active support for learning and development
• Interesting and diverse workload with opportunities to work on key planning policy projects

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, creating sustainable communities and places where people want to live and invest.