Senior Strategic Planner; Regeneration and Growth Strategies

Good Growth

Good Growth is responsible for delivering and implementing the Mayor’s environment, transport and economic strategies and for the effective implementation of the London Plan. The Directorate is also responsible for regeneration (where the programme is not housing led), enterprise, growth, capital projects and design work.

The City and Place Unit is formed from GLA Regeneration & Growth Strategies and TfL Growth & Master planning teams. It sits within the wider network of GLA Planning & Regeneration and TfL Spatial Planning and provides a key opportunity to discuss and resolve cross‑organisational and departmental issues more effectively.

This role is in the Spatial Planning team where you will work to identify and bring forward the most appropriate process for planning for growth, supporting the London Plan.

• You will draw together and analyse information to identify strategic areas and corridors in London with potential for immediate and future growth potential.
• You will use your GIS mapping and urban design skills to prepare frameworks, plans and strategies working with TfL and London boroughs. The aim will be to bring together the aspirations of the Mayor, TfL and the boroughs for a growth area in a coherent future vision and deliverable spatial plan.
• You will use your analytical skills and presentational abilities to review data and show it in a visually engaging way, for example in updating the Opportunity Area webpages and pen portraits shown here:
  
  Opportunity Area Pen Portraits – London Datastore

• You will also work closely with the City and Place Unit area teams and the London Plan team to analyse spatial development patterns and identify current areas that are not realising their potential and prospective new growth areas for homes and jobs.
• You should have some knowledge and understanding of national and London-wide planning and development issues, legal processes and policy trends.
• You will be expected to present reports to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor directly, so you will need excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will also need good negotiation skills and ability to work successfully with a range of internal and external.

• Qualification in planning and relevant professional experience as a senior planner within a similar organisation or business environment;
• Knowledge and understanding of national, regional and London strategic planning and development issues, legal processes, policy trends, and broad knowledge and understanding of local planning and regeneration issues and processes and a knowledge of urban design, place making, and master planning;
• A relevant design qualification and expertise in software packages including GIS/Adobe CS/Sketch Up;
• Evidence of an ability to investigate, analyse and present urban design solutions for spatial planning and regeneration issues;
• Excellent communication skills; and evidence of ability to prepare clear and concise reports, presentations and briefings, including an ability to illustrate ideas through mapping and graphics presentations.

…is presenting information and arguments clearly and convincingly so that others see us as credible and articulate, and engage with us

• Communicates openly and inclusively with internal and external stakeholders
• Clearly articulates the key points of an argument, both in verbal and written communication
• Persuades others, using evidence based knowledge, modifying approach to deliver message effectively
• Challenges the views of others in an open and constructive way
• Presents a credible and positive image both internally and externally

…is analysing and interpreting situations from a variety of viewpoints and finding creative, workable and timely solutions

• Processes and distils a variety of information to understand a problem fully
• Proposes options for solutions to presented problems
• Builds on the ideas of others to encourage creative problem solving
• Think laterally about own…