Associate / Principle Strategic Urban Planners

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead or contribute to strategic urban, regional, city, and master planning projects; develop spatial frameworks, land-use strategies, growth scenarios, policies, and development frameworks.
• Analyze urban conditions, demographics, land use, infrastructure, mobility, environmental constraints, and development opportunities; prepare growth strategies, spatial plans, and structure plans.
• Translate development visions into practical recommendations and coordinate with transport, infrastructure, environmental, landscape, economic, and urban design disciplines.
• Conduct planning assessments, benchmarking, capacity assessments, and policy reviews; support regulations, development controls, zoning, guidelines, and implementation frameworks.
• Evaluate alternative scenarios and provide evidence-based client recommendations; facilitate stakeholder workshops with authorities, developers, and municipalities.
• Prepare reports, strategies, presentations, and client deliverables; manage scope, programme, resources, technical quality, and planning outputs.
• Review team work and mentor junior and mid-level planners; contribute to proposals, bids, methodologies, fee estimates, and business development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning, Town Planning, Regional Planning, Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, or a closely related discipline.
• Significant professional experience in strategic urban planning, spatial planning, master planning, or urban development, including large-scale city, regional, master planning, or strategic development projects.
• Strong understanding of land-use planning, spatial strategy, planning policy, development controls, and urban growth management.
• Ability to interpret demographic, socioeconomic, spatial, infrastructure, and environmental information and work in multidisciplinary consulting teams.
• Strong report writing, presentation, communication, stakeholder-management, project-prioritization, and multidisciplinary coordination capabilities.
• Experience managing and mentoring planning professionals is expected at Associate / Principal level.

Preferred qualifications

• A related master's degree is highly desirable; professional planning accreditation or membership is preferred.
• GIS-based planning and spatial analysis proficiency is advantageous; Middle East / GCC project experience is highly desirable.

Rewards and benefits

• Benefits include tax-free salary, life and medical insurance, annual leave, company gratuity, discretionary bonus, annual flight contribution, and transportation and housing allowances.
• Employee wellbeing support includes 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

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