Principal Area Planner/technical Planner

**Principal Area Planner/Technical Planner**
**042230**

**Organisation**
- Borough Partnerships

**Job**
- Transport Planning

**Position Type**
- Full Time

**Salary: £49,000 - £53,000 per annum, plus benefits**

**Location: Stratford, Southwark, London / Working from home**

**Contract Type: Permanent TfL contract**

**Overview**

London is the best big city on Earth. With Spatial Planning at the heart of major planning and investment decisions, we are responsible for helping ensure it stays that way. We are looking for people with big ideas and a passion for planning to help shape the future of the Capital.

It is an exciting time to join the Spatial Planning team. We work to shape London’s future proactively by supporting sustainable development in London and ensuring good future public transport provision. We lead on the integration of land use planning and transport to support the Mayor’s objective of ‘Good Growth’. We develop policies through the London Plan, Opportunity Area Planning Frameworks and Local Plans, along with guidance to make sure they are successfully implemented. We identify and make the case for transport infrastructure to support growth and secure funding from new developments. We contribute to the planning and delivery of successful major developments by realising improvements to, and mitigating the impacts on, the transport system and the environment.

**The role**

**Key Accountabilities**
- Work with boroughs to shape Local Planning Committee reports and lead TfL’s input to local planning policy documents
- Represent TfL at senior level meetings with the GLA, boroughs, developers and others to secure key transport outcomes
- Support / lead TfL's input to studies/frameworks/planning documents for particular Opportunity Areas, Areas of Intensification and other growth areas eg Housing Zones
- Manage casework of and provide coaching / support to Planners and manage consultants and legal advisors.
- Develop and disseminate best practice and innovation in Spatial Planning's approach & processes to promote continuous
- improvement in the way TfL helps plan and assess new development to ensure MTS/London Plan objectives are delivered.

**Financial Impact**:

- Direct budget expenditure of c£100k
- Responsibility for securing multi-million pound contributions to transport e.g. station schemes, bus services, cycle hire
- Assist in raising of £600 million in Crossrail Section 106 contributions in the period to 2018/195
- May have direct and indirect/matrix line management responsibility for staff (inc. graduates and apprentices) and project resource as required

**Key Interfaces**:
**Internal**
- Team members in the Operating Businesses involved in planning assessments and other project teams.
- Relevant Legal officers
- TfL’s consultants and legal advisors

**External**
- Head of Planning Decisions Unit and case officers up to Director level in the GLA.
- Elected borough members and borough land use & transport planning officers up to Head of Department level.
- Developers and their consultants.
- Central government (e.g., DfT, DCLG).

**Skills, Knowledge & Experience**

**Skills**
- Able to influence and advise key decision makers at all organisational and political levels.
- Strong collaboration skills, able to work effectively across a range of stakeholders and balance competing priorities
- Strong negotiation skills and able to handle complex stakeholder relationships in the context of development proposals
- Excellent written and verbal communication, conveying complex issues and priorities
- Able to work and think both strategically and tactically
- Able to manage projects and caseloads in accordance with agreed project plan to deliver outcomes for TfL.
- Able to manage consultants
- Able to manage cases and work in a project team environment to tight timescales
- Able to provide effective technical planning advice to non-technical people

**Knowledge**
- Degree in relevant discipline, membership of relevant professional body (e.g. RTPI, CIHT) or equivalent experience
- Thorough understanding of the development process
- Detailed understanding of planning and transport legislation in London, local government, and funding mechanisms (e.g. S106/CIL) and how they inter-relate
- Good understanding of development control issues as Highway and Traffic Authority.
- Good understanding of key land use and transport planning challenges facing London.
- Thorough understanding of the transport assessment process.
- Good understanding of a multi-modal urban transport environment.

**Experience**
- Experience of providing advice externally on land use planning and policy procedures.
- Experience of providing input into development of local and strategic transport and land use strategies / policies.
- Experience of preparing and giving evidence to planning inquiries and examinations.
- Experience of managing complex projects (including with consultants) with tight deadlines and d