At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our Programme Integration team to lead impactful infrastructure projects and manage consents processes.
- Company: Turner & Townsend, a global leader in professional services with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Flexible working environment, career development opportunities, and a commitment to work-life balance.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive team with a passion for innovation and excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in major projects while enhancing your consulting skills and career growth.
- Qualifications: Degree in a relevant field and experience in consents management within complex projects.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 55000 £ per year.
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
Our Programme Advisory team specialises in the strategy, set-up and transformation of major programmes and asset owning enterprises within the transport, defence, utilities, and power sectors in the UK and internationally. Since forming in 2018, our growing team of experts have brought innovative thinking to some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges - delivering tangible outcomes for clients by bringing the best of our technical excellence and transformational change capability.
We are looking for enthusiastic, talented, and proactive individuals to join our Programme Integration team, within Programme Advisory. Our growing Consents Team needs people with hands-on experience working in a major project environment.
Programme Integration is at the heart of the Programme Advisory Team. We work across the entire development lifecycle providing a range of services to our clients including:
- Programme and portfolio set up and delivery
- Transition management
- Governance and assurance solutions
- Consents, stakeholder and sponsorship management
As part of the Programme Integration team, your key responsibilities will include:
- Working as part of an integrated project team to ensure the delivery of key client deliverables relating to Nationally Significant Infrastructure projects and programmes navigating the Development Consents Order, Transport and Works Act and Town & Country Planning processes.
- Occupying client or service roles involving consents leadership and management (pre & post consent), consent production and delivery, environment impact assessments, consultation/stakeholder engagement and procedural strategic advisory/assurance.
- Managing client relationships.
- Identifying and realising business development opportunities.
- Leading or contributing towards the preparation of bid proposals or managing key bids.
- Leading internal initiatives within the Programme Advisory team.
- Mentoring and/or managing members of the Programme Advisory team.
- Line managing junior staff (where applicable).
Qualifications:
- BSc/MSc in an appropriate degree.
- Excellent knowledge and practical experience of the lifecycle of a consents process from pre to post consent.
- Demonstrable technical understanding of consents strategy via different consenting routes (i.e. DCO, TWAO, Hybrid Bill).
- Experience of pre-application and/or post consent liaison with internal and external stakeholders within large and complex organisations.
- Technical experience in one or more of the following areas: consents leadership and management, consent production and delivery, environment impact assessments, consultation stakeholder engagement and procedural strategic advisory.
- A proven track record of delivering tangible results across a range of projects.
- Experience of programme and/or project management within a complex environment with multiple workstreams.
- Experience developing productive working relationships and the ability to identify new business opportunities.
Skills:
- Deep understanding of the planning and development of major projects and programmes.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent responsibilities.
- A commitment to your own learning and development.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- High attention to detail.
- Outcomes focused.
- Entrepreneurial mindset.
- Passionate and energetic.
We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
Associate Director - Consents Management in Birmingham employer: TURNER & TOWNSEND
Turner & Townsend is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation across its global teams. With a commitment to employee growth, you will have access to training and development opportunities while working on impactful projects that improve lives. Located in a diverse and inclusive environment, this role as a Global Recruitment Operations Administrator allows you to contribute to a seamless hiring experience, making a meaningful difference in the recruitment process.
