Associate Director - Town Planning

at  RPS Group

RPS is looking for an Associate Director to join our Planning Team based in London (Farringdon). In this key position, you’ll be helping to grow and develop business, manage existing workloads, and provide mentorship to junior planners.
We deliver planning applications and permissions for some of the UK’s most important development and infrastructure projects including residential, commercial, mixed-use , data centres, airports, retail, logistics and renewables projects. We work with the country’s other leading organisations in the development of property and infrastructure and, provide integrated services drawing on other planning, environmental and design services offered by RPS.
With our planning service at the heart of the business, this role will give you the opportunity to evolve and grow a profitable planning consultancy and, with our transparent career pathway framework, we’ll ensure you are continually progressing and enhancing your skills.
At RPS our people are our success. We are looking for people who share our passion on solving 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.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR?

With experience within this sector, you’ll already be familiar with what we’re looking for: RTPI accredited Honours Degree and/or Diploma or Master’s Qualification, full membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute and experience of delivering consultancy to a range of clients. Good financial and project management skills are essential, as are great influencing and communication skills that enable you to build, maintain and consolidate strong working relationships with colleagues, clients and external bodies.
What’s in it for you?
We’re 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 support learning and development for everyone.
We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working.
We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative 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.

• Developing new client relationships and maintaining existing business
• Line managing and mentoring junior planners
• Providing input into business plans, chairing Planning Meetings, and taking a lead role in debates
• Preparing fee proposals and providing input into tender submissions
• Coordinating small/medium & large projects including reviewing project finances, overseeing the production of deliverables in line with the client’s expectations and ensuring delivery is on time and within budget