Principal Town Planner - Policy

Overview

Lead planning policy projects, advise clients, manage teams, and drive business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• strategic planning
• tender preparation
• team coordination
• quality assurance
• project delivery
• stakeholder management

Tasks

-Offer strategic planning advice to other client and internal teams. -Lead and assist in the preparation of commercial tenders to secure new opportunities. -Participate in the successful operation and management of the town planning team -Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams for seamless project execution. -Implement and uphold quality assurance and health and safety principles. -Ensure projects are delivered successfully on budget and within programme timelines. -Contribute to the business development strategy, nurturing client relationships. -Local Plans – Providing local planning authorities with local plan evidence and support is a key area in the policy team. We have worked on the local plans of over 100 authorities in the last decade. This includes the full range of evidence base studies, secondments, critical friend support and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to provide evidence to inform and test planning policy at all stages of plan-making. -Oversee the deliverables produced by the planning policy team. -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. -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.

Requirements

• town planning
• rtpi
• technical reports
• client focus
• business development
• policy leadership

What You Bring

-Ability to produce high quality technical reports and excellent communication skills. -Degree in Town Planning or a related discipline, and membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or equivalent professional body. -Client focus, with good interpersonal skills and a collaborative working approach. -Ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure. -A business development mindset, with demonstrable experience of work winning and developing relationships with existing and new clients. -Existing relationships with clients and local authorities. -Significant relevant experience of leading and contributing to planning policy and strategy development in a consultancy or public sector role.

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About Aecom

-Launched as a bold independent infrastructure consultancy from a merger of five legacy firms dating back over a century. -Handles everything from geotech to electro-mechanical systems, as seen in the award-winning Romaine Hydroelectric Complex in Canada. -Guides projects through every lifecycle stage in transportation, buildings, water systems, energy, and environmental sectors.

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