Urban Planner

Job Description

AECOM are expanding their team and looking for a passionate Senior Urban Planner to join our Urbanism + Planning team and work on transformative projects, drive sustainable development, and create resilient urban landscapes.

Job Responsibilities

• Manages, coordinates and leads smaller, less complex projects independently with less oversight. May lead smaller project client meetings and take ownership of report structure and content.
• Coordinates teams to prepare projects deliverables and applicable planning authorities’ requirements and coordinate with various disciplines technical input and output into a project or a proposal.
• Works with client planning team and is able to manage and negotiate project expectations and deliverables independently and more complex ones with assistance.
• Initiates and drives innovative approaches to efficient project delivery. E.g. improved site analysis assessment or site planning, due diligence and high-level developer assessment.
• Has solid understanding of various scale of planning projects and determine differences and requirements and communicates effectively.
• Has the ability to carry out baseline assessment, analyse various data and develop criteria for the assessment of master plans
• Has the ability to develop implementation and phasing planning
• Has sound understanding of planning / environmental governance and policy and can communicate planning / environmental governance and policy and make recommendations to clients where relevant.
• Has strong writing skills and ability to communicate the planning /environmental solutions concisely and succinctly.
• Prepares/reviews and understands datasets to correlate population projections against market demands and supply.
• Prepares ‘Methodology’ for small scale proposals without direct supervision and able to understand and carry out the necessary internal processes to obtain approvals for proposal submission.
• Leads speciality topics / interests in urban planning e.g. wellness planning / placemaking
• Up to date with the current industry trends, approaches, tools and methods
• Provides mentorship / coaching to graduate planners.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in Urban Planning
• Bachelors degree in Urban Planning and design, urban policy, sustainable development or equivalent.
• Masters degree preferred.
• Professional membership such as RTPI, AICP, PIA, CIP, SIP or equivalent preferred.