Excellent career progression opportunities

WWA is a well-established inter-disciplinary planning and design practice with offices in Abingdon and West London. Our team of planning and design experts covers the regions of the country where development growth is currently accelerating, including London, the South East and the Midlands. A varied caseload is available across a range of urban and rural sites, providing an opportunity to expand your planning skills and improve the built environment along with our award-winning planning team.

As part of our growth, we are very keen to appoint an ambitious Senior Planner with aspirations to grow their career further.  We encourage all staff in career development so much that WWA team members have won the OxPropFest Young Person of the Year award twice in the last four years. This says a lot about how we care for our team and individual staff development.

Our Abingdon office is a stunning Grade II Listed Building right on the Thames with a garden overlooking the river, and our London office is located in a highly sustainable location, immediately adjacent to Hampton Railway Station. The role allows for working from our Abingdon office. We also have a working-from-home policy of two days per week for those who prefer it.

To Be a Strong Candidate, You Should Have

• an RTPI-accredited planning qualification
• either holding or working towards chartered membership of the RTPI
• at least three years post-qualification planning experience (planners)
• a particular interest in working on the environmental and planning aspects of major and minor development projects and policy studies.
• must be able to work in a team environment and manage competing demands and prioritise tasks for themselves and others, with the key aspect being to meet clients’ expectations.
• excellent report writing, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Candidates should also be self-assured, and confident, enjoy the prospect of developing their client base and make a real contribution to the prosperity of the Company and themselves.

The position offers to work in a beautiful riverside studio, a friendly and supportive planning team, a competitive salary, hybrid working, cycle-to-work scheme, generous leave entitlement, pension contribution, continued training and other benefits as well as career progression for the right candidates.  Due to the upcoming retirement of a long-serving Senior Planner at the end of the year, an excellent opportunity exists to step into that role and head up our major planning applications and the expansion of our planning team.

If you are an ambitious, solution-focused, team player with an interest in shaping the future of the built and natural environment through town planning, and urban and architectural design, then we would love to hear from you. To apply for this position, please e-mail your CV and a supporting statement to Wendy Kelly (wendy.kelly@wwa-studios.com) or for an informal chat about this opportunity, please contact us at 01235 523139.