Associate Urban Planner
5 months ago
Company Description
**Work with Us. Change the World.**
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
**Job Description**:
AECOM are expanding their team and looking to hire an **Associate - Urban Planner** to sit within the Planning Team of the Urbanism + Planning practice line and lead strategy and innovation related to products, processes, standards and methodologies to achieve market, customer and industry goals.
**Job Duties**
- Manages and lead medium sized projects including preparing and delivering planning deliverables independently with limited or no oversight, and with assistance from junior planners.
- Ability to operate as a technical lead for various scale of master planning projects with a sound understanding of all relevant planning workstreams.
- Has a strong capability to coordinate multiple disciplines and communicate such requirements.
- Independently manage and negotiate with the client on deliverables to ensure alignment with contracted scopes by leading client and project meetings, articulating and defending the work undertaken.
- Will lead client and project meetings, articulating and defending the work undertaken.
- Develops project briefs in order to confirm client objectives.
- Reviews and understands datasets to correlate population projections against market demands and supply.
- 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.
- Can structure and develop tailored planning guidelines and controls as per client requirements.
- Has an ability to develop thought processes, criteria and methodologies for various type and scale of planning projects
- Provide specific technical expertise in spatial planning, environmental and regional planning, developing governance and implementation strategies and make recommendations to clients where relevant.
- Has excellent written and presentation skills in English/Arabic (preferred) with an ability to coordinate and develop a deliverable (report) as well as create a presentation and summary to support the deliverable.
- Lead small to medium size proposals (both technical and commercial) and ensures high quality output including innovative ways to present
- Analytical thinker and able to provide innovative approaches to various planning matters
- Up to date with the current industry trends, approaches, tools and methods
- Provides professional urban/environmental planning mentorship/guidance to junior staff members.
- Leads specialty topics / interests in urban planning e.g., wellness planning / placemaking
- Prepare and deliver presentations to clients and government (approving agencies) to advance approvals of development, Master Plans, Development Guidelines and policies.
- Liaise with government agencies and other authorities as may be required regarding development objectives, policies and procedures
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor’s Degree in **Urban Planning, Design, or Town Planning**. Masters in one of these disciplines would be preferred.
- RTPI (or any other planning association membership) would be advantageous.
Additional Information
**Specific Skills Required**
- Experience working on a range of urban planning projects such as developing regional plans, city or national spatial strategies, comprehensive city plans and governance and implementation frameworks and action plans (one or more of these types of planning work).
- Exceptional experience in preparing high-quality, multi-disciplinary written and illustrative planning principles, concepts, strategies, controls and guidelines.
- Strong ability to write, refine and deliver final reports with regard to planning, urban design, governance and implementation projects.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to develop practical options and solutions.
- Ability to structure, lead and participate in planning, urban design and development workshops as required
- Ability to lead and manage complex, multi-disciplinary projects to successful delivery of outcomes within budget and programme.
- Proven t
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