Senior Planner

at  RPS Group

RPS is seeking to recruit a qualified Senior Planner with proven professional experience in all areas of planning. This is a hybrid role with offices available in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Sligo and Kilkenny.
Our projects are all around you. We define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter and where you’ll be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come to build a career.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc or MSc in Regional / Urban / City / Town and Country Planning

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Professionally qualified or chartered (Member of IPI and/or RTPI).
• Extensive professional experience in town planning (after attaining the qualification).
• Technically proficient with excellent working knowledge of planning legislation and planning policy matters.
• Willingness to learn and manage projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support Planning Directors and more junior colleagues on a range of projects, using initiative in doing so.
• Collate, analyse and interpret a range of socio-economic, demographic, policy and related material.
• Write reports summarising analysis, findings and providing clear reasoned advice.
• Regularly be required to solve problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Attend meetings with clients / planning authorities and other stakeholders as a representative of RPS and to liaise directly with other professionals pursuant to effective management and conduct of projects.
• Support business development initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with RPS Quality Assurance procedures.
• Coordinate and manage projects including:

o preparing and submitting planning applications,
o preparing planning appeals,
o site appraisals,
o planning policy reviews,
o analysis and research related to Local Plan or policy preparation,

o co-ordination of environmental assessments.

• Lead in knowledge sharing events and team building activities.

WE KNOW WE DEVELOP BETTER SOLUTIONS TOGETHER.

That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.
Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Under the direction of a Director of Planning a Senior Planner is expected to provide professional and technical assistance on a diverse range of town planning projects and will be expected to meet and liaise with clients to ensure successful project delivery. The role offers opportunities to work as part of a team on prestigious and large-scale infrastructure projects. The role will be of interest to professional Planners who like working with in-house specialists, those who enjoy a wide variety of project types and those who get fulfilment from quality training.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support Planning Directors and more junior colleagues on a range of projects, using initiative in doing so.
• Collate, analyse and interpret a range of socio-economic, demographic, policy and related material.
• Write reports summarising analysis, findings and providing clear reasoned advice.
• Regularly be required to solve problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Attend meetings with clients / planning authorities and other stakeholders as a representative of RPS and to liaise directly with other professionals pursuant to effective management and conduct of projects.
• Support business development initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with RPS Quality Assurance procedures.
• Coordinate and manage projects including