Strategic Planner

London, England, United Kingdom

5/12/2025

Key Information

Job title: Strategic Planner

Salary: £36,500 Grade: Pay Band 2

Contract type: TfL Reference: 1145

Team: London-Wide and Regional Strategy or Transport Policy Directorate: Strategy

Contract details: Full-time Location: Southwark, London SE1 with Hybrid working

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Application closing date: 25 May 2025 @ 2359

Overview Of Project/role

TfL’s London-wide and Regional Strategy and Transport Policy teams develop the strategies and policies that bring the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) to life — helping to create a greener, healthier, and more inclusive London.

At the heart of the MTS is a commitment to making it easier for Londoners to walk, cycle, and use public transport. We’re now looking for Strategic Planners to join each of these teams and help shape the future of transport in the capital.

As a Strategic Planner You’ll Work Flexibly In One Or More Of Our Policy Areas, Which For The Transport Policy Team Include

• Carbon – developing the strategy to achieve net zero carbon for road transport by 2030
• Active travel policy – developing policies and plans to encourage more and more diverse Londoners to travel actively
• Buses – developing policies and plans to encourage more Londoners to use the bus and improve bus performance
• Streets policy – developing policy to make London streets healthier, safer and more inclusive
• Integrated planning – planning future investment, including working with London boroughs, to deliver new cycle routes, bus lanes, more pedestrian crossings, lower speeds and safer streets
• Freight – making freight safer, cleaner and more efficient for London including the developing the Direct Vision Standard and our strategy for cargo bikes
• Electric vehicles – planning the delivery of London’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy
• Air quality – using policy levers to tackle London’s toxic air
  
  

Or in our London-wide and Regional Strategy team you could be working across some of the following policy areas:

• New mobility – engaging with industry, government and other public bodies to anticipate, identify, and proactively shape new mobility services
• Strategic frameworks – focussing on providing regular updates on our progress in delivering the Mayor's Transport Strategy
• Pricing – developing policy for fares, road user charging e.g. tunnel user charging case making and policy
• Rail, Aviation, Spatial and Cross-boundary strategy – securing metroisation and devolution of rail services in London, addressing the environmental and surface access impacts associated with London's six airports, providing the strategic transport input into the new London Plan, and working with the sub-national transport bodies to facilitate sustainable cross-boundary travel
  
  

Key Accountabilities

Your duties will include, but not be limited to:

• Support the development of evidence-based policies, plans, and projects—drawing on analysis, research, stakeholder input, and best practice
• Work with internal and external partners to ensure transport priorities are reflected in wider strategies and plans
• Represent TfL in meetings and workshops, providing technical input and building strong working relationships
• Contribute to studies and project teams to define outcomes, explore options, and assess solutions
• Analyse legislation, data, and research to inform policy and project development
• Help develop guidance, targets, and metrics for specific modes, topics, or areas
• Support the appraisal of schemes and development of business cases
• Work with delivery teams to test and progress schemes that align with the MTS
• Promote innovative and effective approaches to tackling London’s transport challenges
  
  

Skills

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Good standard of verbal, visual and written communication, including producing high quality reports and presentations (Essential)
• The relationship between data and its intended application - Practitioner (Essential)
• Developing work plans – Practitioner (Essential)
• Initiation and feasibility of transport schemes in line with policies & other requirements – Practitioner (Desirable)
• Developing or assessing transport policies and procedures – Practitioner (Desirable)
  
  

Knowledge

• Relevant qualification at degree level or higher and/or professional membership / qualification of a recognised professional Institution (e.g. ICE; IHT; CILT; RTPI) or equivalent experience (Essential)
• Knowledge around emerging best practices in some of the following areas: transport, economics, appraisal, land use planning, environment, public health and urban design (Essential)
• Understanding of cities from the perspective of transport systems, health and environment, particularly London and its governance (Essential)
• Understanding of transport planning and the wider context to the development of projects and proposals (Essential)
• Understanding of project management processes including their strategic transport context (Desirable)
• Understanding of TfL's financial, legal, political and regulatory environment (Desirable)
  
  

Experience

• Experience of working in a flexible team environment, including multi-disciplinary teams (Essential)
• Experience of producing and presenting complex information in a simple way material for key stakeholders (internal and external) (Essential)
• Experience of working in a project, programme, planning or policy environment (Desirable)
  
  

Application Process

• Please apply using your CV and a one-page covering letter
• Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter
• PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images
  
  

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel
  
  

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.