Intern - Urban Planning; UAEN

Motivated to support urban planning and strategy projects as an Intern shaping more sustainable, liveable cities? Join our Urban Strategies team and help deliver impactful urban solutions.

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.

You’ll be surrounded with intellectual and engineering challenges of the calibre and complexity that enquiring minds crave.

• Support urban planning and strategy projects through research, mapping, and spatial analysis.
• Assist in preparing reports, presentations, diagrams, and illustrative material to communicate planning and design concepts.
• Help produce maps and visualisations using tools such as GIS and design software where applicable.
• Contribute to data analysis related to demographics, land use, mobility, and socio-economic indicators.
• Participate in internal workshops and meetings, contributing ideas on urban challenges and opportunities.
• Provide general support to project teams across a range of urban planning and strategic advisory assignments.

• Emirati National, currently studying or recently graduated in Urban Planning, Architecture, Geography, Economics, Real Estate, or related social sciences.
• A keen interest in cities, urban challenges, and integrated planning solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well both independently and in a team.
• Experience or interest in design and mapping tools such as CAD, Illustrator, QGIS, or similar is desirable.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to handle quantitative and qualitative data.

• Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Paid internship
• A strong commitment to your continuous development.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

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