Associate Town Planner

Job title: Associate Town Planner

Salary: Negotiable depending on experience and skills

Location: London

About Temple

Temple www.templegroup.co.uk is one of the UK’s leading independent infrastructure and property consultancies, specialising in environment, planning and sustainability.

We are a purpose and people led organisation and as a B Corp we are part of a movement committed to transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet https://www.bcorporation.net/

With a team comprising forward thinking, multi disciplined technical specialists we work with inspirational clients on their organisations, on their challenges and on exciting, innovative, complex and globally relevant projects, programmes and schemes.

Our reputation over the last 25 years is built on the bespoke, personable and professional service we offer our clients so that they can make the right decisions and achieve the best outcomes. We do this by leveraging our experience and breadth of skills alongside our insights, commitment, and ethical approach to everything we do.

As we embark on the next stage of our phenomenal success story, we are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Associate Town Planner to join us on this journey and in particular, help deliver major housing, mixed use, infrastructure and regeneration schemes. ?

The Role

As an experienced charted town planner, you know that no two days are the same, and the same can be said for our projects.

We work on a range of commissions from setting planning and environmental strategies for high profile, cross boundary planning applications and acting as planning lead for large scale regeneration schemes where there are complex multi-disciplined issues to overcome.

In your role, you would principally work on TCPA projects but experience also of DCO/ TWAO schemes would be an advantage. You will be responsible for managing projects; liaising with clients, local authorities, consultants and key stakeholders to proactively move projects forward; developing strong professional networking relationships with those in the property and planning industry to identify opportunities for business development; support junior members of staff; work collaboratively in teams to support bids and tenders; and writing and submitting planning applications.

The candidate:

You will be enthusiastic, with excellent research, communication and writing skills. You will be prepared to offer well informed and accurate advice when it matters and be enthused at the prospect of being involved and influential within design teams, from project inception, right through to their delivery. You will have a good understanding of development management, the vagaries of the planning system and be open minded about the sorts of projects and Clients that you work for. You will engage with other technical specialists in our multi-disciplined teams and identify opportunities for cross selling our services, networking and business development as well as maintaining and promoting our professional reputation.

We deliver our projects through Hybrid working, with the team working from the London office a minimum of two to three days per week. You will though, be adaptable to meet the needs of the work that we do.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a RTPI accredited degree

• Be MRTPI qualified

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

• Be critical thinkers with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Be organised, flexible, proactive and professional.

Equal Employment Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, Temple is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Temple.

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