Graduate Development Economics Consultant – London – 2025 in London, United Kingdom

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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Your role:

We are looking for a Graduate Development Economics Consultant to be based in London , joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.

As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort. In the role, you will gain expertise in socio-economic analysis and awareness of the company’s broader service offerings. You’ll contribute to various projects, including assessing housing and employment needs, crafting social and economic impact statements, and developing strategies. This role provides opportunities to hone your analytical skills in support of sustainable development, informing site promotion, planning applications, and corporate strategy. You’ll also assist with project promotion, team coordination, client analysis, planning documents, and policy advocacy, while building your professional network.

Clients include landowners, developers, operators and promoters of industrial, housing and commercial uses. You will work on a range of projects of both variety and scale, including social infrastructure and green energy (i.e. wind and solar).

You will join a supportive team with exciting career opportunities, have great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary environment.

Take a look at our Development Economics business line:- Development Economics (stantec.com) and see our Stantec Career Stories here:- Stantec jobsnear.org Career Stories

About you:

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your Bachelor’s degree in Economics, we’d love to receive your application if you are:-

• A Collaborator: You’ll love to work effectively with lots of different people at different levels, all inputting their part towards a shared goal.

• An Adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.

• A Planner: Organising and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.

• A Striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You’ll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.

• A Multi-Tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.

• A Problem-Solver: You’ll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary

• Private medical insurance

• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance

• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec

• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership

• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)

Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees, working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

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Stantec Is An Equal Employer

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long-term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

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