Associate Director - Town Planning

1. RPS is looking for an Associate Director Town Planner.
2. This role will give you the opportunity to join and grow a profitable planning consultancy and, with our transparent career pathway framework.
3. We provide robust fully accredited professional training programmes - to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring.

RPS is looking for an Associate Director Town Planner. This is a key role within our National Development & Infrastructure Planning Team, who work collaboratively with our Environment Division. Working alongside a range of multi-disciplinary services within a team of planning experts, you will be delivering on a broad range of planning applications including residential, mixed-use developments, data centres, airports, retail, logistics, major infrastructure projects and you will be helping to grow and develop business and, provide mentorship to junior planners.

With our planning service at the heart of the business, this role will give you the opportunity to join and grow a profitable planning consultancy and, with our transparent career pathway framework, we will ensure you are continually progressing and enhancing your credentials.

We are RPS, our projects are all around you. We define, design, and take care of projects that create shared value to a composite, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We are looking for people who can find a solution to the problems that matter. Our flat structure creates greater collaboration and speed of communication, enabling us to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Here you will find work that is stimulating and rewarding.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Developing new customer relationships and maintaining existing business
• Directing and mentoring junior planners
• Providing input into business plans and Chair Planning Meetings, influencing debate and contributing to discussion on operational matters
• Preparing fee proposals and providing input into tender submissions
• Preparing representations to Local Plan consultations, appearing at Local Plan Examinations and assisting with appeal co-ordination and statements of case
• Presiding over small / medium & large projects including coordinating team members, project finances, overseeing solutions in line with the customer’s expectations and ensuring delivery is on time

Who Are Looking For?

With experience within this sector, you will already be familiar with what we’re looking for:

• Qualified MRTPI or in another relevant discipline
• A highly experienced and knowledgeable practitioner who has experience in large energy and infrastructure projects, including those requiring Environmental Impact Assessment, and those relating to Developments of National Significance and Development Control Orders
• Full membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute and experience of delivering consultancy to a range of customers
• Have an established market reputation with a demonstrable record of winning sustainable and commercially viable projects
• Good financial and project management experience is essential
• Great influencing and communication techniques that enable you to build, maintain and consolidate strong working relationships with colleagues, customers and external bodies

What Is In It For You?

We are proud to be an accredited ILM training provider, internationally recognised and providing robust fully accredited professional training programmes - to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we provide learning and development for everyone.

We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and techniques to develop the ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.

We identify the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to communicate about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you.