Associate Director - Consents Management

Associate Director - Consents Management

• Full-time
• Department:
  Infrastructure

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. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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 an influential team who share a common passion for making change a reality, continually setting new standards. As a diverse and inclusive team of unique individuals, we inspire one another to do better every day. Our collaborative culture also ensures that everyone’s potential is maximised, constantly learning through experience and close team relationships.

Joining the Programme Advisory team will afford you exciting opportunities to directly support world renowned clients, enhance your consulting skills, shape your career, and directly contribute to the teams exciting growth trajectory.

The Opportunity

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 – whether you’re a champion of change, a connoisseur of consents, environmentalist, as stakeholder strategist or a perfect PM we’d love to hear from you about how you could help us to deliver tangible results for our clients.

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, and 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, across the pre/post consent stages of the project or programme lifecycle

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, such as the development of programme integration products and methodologies

Mentoring and/or managing members of the Programme Advisory team

Line managing junior staff (where applicable)

Excellent knowledge and practical experience of the lifecycle of a consents process from pre to post consent

Demonstrable technical understanding…