Job description
Assistant Consultant Mobility & Cities Advisory Graduate - 2026 Graduate Programme
Job Details
- Locations:Dublin
- Job Type:Graduates
- Ref:5585
Interested In This Role?
See it differently
You see the world through a unique lens and that’s exactly what we need. We embrace how you see things differently – it’s essential for creating a sustainable future.
Arup is a global consultancy with advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines. We guide, plan and design the future of the built environment. Globally, each year we recruit hundreds of graduates to help us see things differently and solve the most complex challenges facing our clients, climate and communities.
Mobility, Cities & Infrastructure Advisory
Mobility, Cities and Infrastructure Advisory is a multidisciplinary team that brings clarity to complex urban, mobility and infrastructure challenges. We deliver high-quality, data-driven and context-aware advisory services that help clients make confident decisions and achieve sustainable, resilient outcomes for the built environment.
Our team of around 25 specialists spans three core areas: Finance and Economics, Mobility and Cities Advisory, and Geospatial Data Analytics. Together, we provide robust analysis, strategic advice and tangible solutions across urban and transport strategy, infrastructure investment, and spatial intelligence.
Operating within Arup Ireland's 100-person Advisory and Digital Services group, we support clients across Ireland and internationally, translating complexity into actionable insight and communicating with clarity for maximum impact.
Mobility & Cities Advisory
The Mobility & Cities Advisory team delivers insightful and evidence-based strategic advice for clients on complex and intersecting cities and transport problems, to inform their decision making and help deliver on their aims for a sustainable future. We bring integrated thinking on transport, cities, land use, place-making, energy, decarbonisation, sustainability, behaviour change and demand management, and help to tackle some of the sector's most challenging problems; positively influencing sustainable outcomes.
As a Mobility & Cities Advisory Graduate at Arup, you will:
You will support the team across a wide range of project tasks including:
- Development of strategies and plans
- Problem identification and solving
- Research to inform policy development
- Scenario planning and options assessment
- Stakeholder and community engagement
- Market research, surveys, persona development
- Reporting, quality assurance, project controls.
You will also support proposal and tender preparation, business development activities, and team administration.
Does this role inspire you?
We're looking for graduates who are passionate about mobility and cities. We also value:
- Level 8 or above qualifications in a relevant discipline, including but not limited to:
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- Transport or town planning
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- Regional development
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- Civil or transport engineering
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- Sustainable transport and mobility
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- City or transport policy and research
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- Sustainable urban development
- 1-2 years relevant experience desirable.
- Adaptable with an interest to learn on the job.
- Strong professional acumen and work ethic.
- Capable of working as part of a team as well as independently, across multiple projects.
- High interest in a career in transport, cities planning, sustainability and regional development.
- A sustainability mindset with an awareness of the economic, environmental and societal challenges facing cities.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications.
What we offer you
Beyond a great salary and stimulating, technically challenging work, Arup offers a range of additional benefits to its people.
As a membership organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme. Our members also have access to a range of broader wellbeing benefits. You’ll have access to lots of learning and development opportunities. This includes a structured induction and ongoing training through Arup university.
Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to do meaningful work that strengthens the resilience of communities and places to improve lives through Arup's community engagement programme.
Next steps
Please click on the role that most interests you to find out further information and to apply. We then ask that you complete the application form, attaching any required documents. We will be reviewing applications for this position on a rolling basis. You are therefore strongly encouraged to apply in advance of the application deadline.
Different people, shared values
At Arup, we encourage individuality to thrive by respecting, sharing and connecting our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas so we can grow together.
At Arup we are an equal opportunity employer, and we accept people for who they are – we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of age, gender identity and expression, marital status, disability, neurodiversity and mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. Your difference belongs here. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.
Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture – from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender, LGBTQ+ and disability – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference - Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.
At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact UKEarlyCareersRecruitment@arup.com to let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. As a Disability Confident Level 2 Employer in the UK, we will strive for one third of all our assessment places to be allocated to candidates who have disclosed they are disability confident and best meet the requirements of the role. Please refer to these requirements per each role advertised.
We appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and it’s not always easy to commit to standard working hours. Work Unbound is our innovative hybrid approach to working and gives all our members greater flexibility in deciding how and where they work.
