Graduate Planner

Penguin Recruitment: Supporting Planners since 2008

Graduate / Assistant Planner

Covent Garden, London

£26,000 – £36,000p/a + benefits package including 28 days annual leave!

Your job

Are you interested in working with one of the UK’s most dynamic & exciting planning consultancies on major developments throughout the UK?

With ambitious growth plans, our client are seeking to appoint a Graduate Planner with exceptional academic passes or an Assistant with similar stellar academics but with 6-12 months planning experience.

The principal purpose of the role is to assist the existing team and senior staff in realising the business plan in reaching their vision of being one of the UK’s top 20 leading town planning consultancies by 2020!

The company

My client has been established since 2008 and has a highly experienced planning team (currently 11 Planners) who focus on major developments generating a well-respected status in the London & South East regions.

They have achieved ‘Smarter Planning Champion’ status from the Government, in recognition of their consistently high standard of submitting planning applications.

They work with clients across the UK from both the Public & Private sector and provide the following services and products;

-General practise town planning advice

-Planning application documents (town planning)

-Environmental impact assessment (town planning)

-Development plan representations.

Key responsibilities will include

-To support the planning teams varied workload on site promotion, planning applications

and appeals and development plan representations;

-To carry out research and assist in planning appraisals and development feasibility studies

-To prepare reports and briefing notes for internal and external use on changes to the

planning system

-To assist senior members of the team on day to day work and project matters.

Job requirements

-Degree or Masters in Planning or related field & eligibility for MRTPI

-Up to 12 months Planning experience (either from the Private or Public sector)

-Good communicator

-A team player attitude

Benefits

-Competitive starting salary (£26,000 – £36,000p/a)

-Benefits package including a generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus bank holidays

-Join a fast growing, successful and supportive consultancy in central London

-Major developments exposure

-APC support and experienced network of colleagues

The Planning Director is keen to meet with suitable Graduate / Assistant Planners immediately so if you are ambitious and looking to progress in your career by working with an exciting and growing Planning practise then this is the opportunity for you!

Please register your interest below by clicking ‘apply’.

Central London has great rail links to London and the surrounding areas. Nearby stations include Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Temple & Charing Cross.