Principal Transport Planner - Strategy & Policy - LSE

Role description

Our Transport Planning team are recruiting for an experienced Principal Transport Planner to manage projects and client accounts and lead teams focused on supporting clients to deliver their objectives and outcomes in London and the South East.

A key focus for the role will be developing our strategic transport planning capability across local authorities and London Boroughs. Additionally, candidates will need to demonstrate bid writing experience and the ability to win pipeline opportunities.

Our client portfolio includes the National Highways, National Grid, Kent County Council, Surrey County Council, Homes England, HS2, and national housebuilders, architects, planners, land promoters and property developers.

The Transport Planning team operates across the UK, with a presence in Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland, the South East, Midlands, North of England, as well as offices in Wales. We require a proven Transport Planner to join our team in London or the South East (Guildford) to work on existing and upcoming projects.

Role accountabilities

• Multimodal Transport Strategy Development
• Future mobility strategies
• Business Case preparation and advice
• Funding bid preparation and advice
• Multimodal modelling and scheme appraisal
• Pedestrian modelling and urban space design
• Scheme Concept and Feasibility
• Master planning Input and Advice
• Travel demand management and behavioural change strategies
• Sustainable and Active Travel inputs
• Planning Application support
• Public Consultation and Expert Witness
• Local Plan preparation and evidence base
• Local operational modelling and access design

Qualifications & Experience

You should be experienced in the successful delivery and management of projects and teams, ideally in both the private and public sectors. Educated to degree level or above, preferably in transport planning or traffic engineering. You are confident at communicating and presenting to internal and external clients.

• Significant experience in transport planning and strategy development
• Experience of working in large multi-disciplinary teams
• Proven business and client development skills
• Ability to be first point of contact with clients
• Able to produce quality bids
• Experience managing projects and teams
• Ability to coach and mentor staff
• Excellent report writing and communication skills
• Ability to oversee the production of technical documents
• Excellent organisational skills

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.