Graduate Urban Development and Mobility

Graduate Urban Development and Mobility Consultant

You see the world through a unique lens and that’s exactly what we need. We embrace how you see things differently – it’s essential for creating a sustainable future.

Arup is a global consultancy with advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines. We guide, plan and design the future of the built environment. Globally, each year we recruit hundreds of graduates and students who help us see things differently and solve the most complex challenges facing our clients, climate and communities.

Arup's Urban Development and Mobility team provides strategic, financial and delivery advice to clients navigating transformative projects at the intersection of urban development, economic growth and transport investment. We help shape and deliver major, complex-built environment projects, from transport-led regeneration and housing growth to large-scale commercial development and infrastructure investment.

Successful urban development requires an understanding of both the tangible aspects of the built environment and the institutional context in which decisions are made. Our advice combines expertise in strategy, economics, policy and the built environment with financial, commercial and technical insight, helping clients turn large-scale ideas into deliverable and genuinely transformational outcomes.

Our team is multi-disciplinary by design and includes strategic economists, urban planners, surveyors, architects, business case practitioners and social value specialists. What connects us is an integrator mindset: we like solving complex problems by bringing together different perspectives and seeing the bigger picture.

The role will involve working on projects within the UK, and internationally, and require a range of quantitative and qualitative skills as well as the ability to effectively support client relationships and work as part of integrated project teams. The type of work will be purposefully varied but might include:

• Making complicated, multi-faceted projects happen in a world with ever-changing challenges (for example – King’s Cross didn’t always look like it does now. Lots of people spent many years making incremental progress which has led to transformation of the place.)
• Building the rationale for major projects, often through Green Book business cases (for example, new train stations – such as the new Northern Line Extension and how it’s connected to the development at Nine Elms and Battersea.)
• Undertaking economic analysis, appraisal and modelling (for example, working out how much economic growth would a scheme to deliver 10,000 new homes and 2.5m sq. ft office space generate?)
• Developing local economic growth and governance strategies (for example, how could public and private sector work together to support a town centre with lots of vacant shops generate increased footfall, activity, and a sense of community?)
• Project strategy and management support (for example, helping clients who are leading complex, long-term development projects make progress on a day-to-day basis often in highly political environments.)
• Candidates are not expected to have experience or technical knowledge of all items listed above. We are an inclusive team who have a range of different backgrounds and professional experience. We encourage candidates to apply if they have a keen interest in cities, the way they function and developing sustainable solutions to shape a better world.

For this opportunity, we are seeking the following qualifications, skills and attributes:

An undergraduate or bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, such as Economics, Geography & Geospatial Science, Urban Planning, or Policy and…