Junior Land Consultant 12 month FTC

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At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP's Land team is seeking talented Land professionals to join what is already the largest and most successful team in our industry. This is an exciting opportunity to develop or begin a career with a team that enjoys a successful reputation for the successful delivery of major strategic infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland through the support provided by land referencing, urban and rural landowner engagement, consultation management, land access, formal consents, statutory orders, compensation agreements and land acquisition.

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Junior Land Consultant

• As Junior Land Consultant, you will be directly supporting the wider team in the identification of landowners, occupiers and other parties that hold a legal interest in land, through research and interpretation of a variety of information.
• You will also support our teams in the delivery of land access, landowner engagement, stakeholder engagement, and supporting projects through to the consenting stages/statutory processes.
• Work closely with our 300+ Land colleagues across the UK, Ireland and India delivering land services on a variety of high profile projects across the energy, highways, rail, water, local government and aviation sectors.
• We actively support people in achieving professional accreditations and have Chartered Geographers (CGeog), Chartered Town Planners (RTPI) and Chartered Surveyors (AssocRICS and MRICS) who can support your career progression.
• This role will report to a Consultant/Senior Land Consultant.
• Participation in our CPD accredited Land Academy. Full training will be provided combined with learning on the job as part of our projects.
• Support the wider team in the identification of legal interests in land, through desktop research which includes but is not limited to, land registry title interpretation, companies' details checks and address validations.
• Contribute to the Land delivery and success of high profile infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland.
• Interpret and process incoming documents, such as questionnaires and access licences from landowners to support the delivery of land access.
• UK and Ireland travel, with some opportunities to travel further afield.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate

• Recently graduated with a degree in Geography, Land/Estate Management, Agriculture or another relevant discipline and/or experience that has provided you with an understanding of land use and ownership.
• Experience of desktop researching and problem solving, so that you can apply your skills to the process of identifying landowners/occupiers, land interests and rights in land.
• The role will require visits to sites as part of a team, to speak with landowners and stakeholders. This may involve periods staying away from home (accommodation and expenses are provided).
• Good communication and organisational skills, with experience in managing data.
• Proficient at reading and using maps and in interrogating datasets.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills, and comfortable in being able to write and articulate your findings.
• Experience using MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams).
• The ability to travel effectively to various sites/locations is a necessary function of this role.
• Don't quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team. Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

South of England

We support high profile infrastructure projects across London and the South of England as well as elsewhere in the UK and in Ireland. Local projects include Heathrow Expansion (third runway), set to be the largest land referencing project ever undertaken, solar farms across the east of England, Thames Tideway, Luton Airport DCO, TransPennine Route Upgrade (TRU) and HS2.

Many of our Energy projects are critical for the deployment of renewable energy, helping the UK economy to achieve net zero carbon emissions, and we support emerging rail, water, highways and other projects that represent investment in the UK's future. The role can be based in one of our offices in London (in the City at Chancery Lane or one of our other central London offices) or Guildford with the flexibility of hybrid working between one of these locations and from home.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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