Graduate Transport Planner

Since 2006 our Graduate Training Scheme has successfully guided graduates to become Chartered Transport Planning Professionals. Designed for the CIHT Standard route to chartership it provides tailored focused development from day one helping to nurture in-house talent for possible future senior positions within Transport Scotland.

Our internal rotations within Transport Scotland combined with external secondments to consultancies and other public bodies offer you unique opportunities to gain hands-on experience and develop skills that are hard or time-consuming to achieve elsewhere. This broadens your expertise in planning policy and project management helping you make sound planning decisions.

Graduates enter a Training Agreement with Transport Scotland outlining responsibilities and aligning with the Professional Bodys Training Scheme. Progress is tracked through the CIHTs Professional Development Framework ensuring graduates are on track to meet the CIHT competencies and achieve professional qualification.

Candidates must demonstrate that they hold an approved UK Transport Masters degree or have completedan approvedTPS Professional Development Scheme to follow the standard route to the CTPP qualification. You can check your degree against theApproved Masters Degrees for CIHT CTPP Standard Route. These posts are for intake in September 2026 so candidates in their final year of study are welcome to apply. Appointments will be made subject to satisfactory completion of your qualifications. Please make it clear in your CV that you hold a valid qualification.

Candidates will have their applications assessed against all criteria listed in the Success Profile the event of a large number of applications are received an initial sift will be conducted on the Lead Criteria of the Behaviour Making Effective Decisions. Candidates who pass the initial sift will have their applications fully assessed against all remaining criteria.

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About Us

Transport Scotland is the national transport agency seeking to deliver a safe efficient cost-effective and sustainable transport system for the benefit of the people of Scotland. Transport Scotland is accountable to Parliament and the public through Scottish Ministers with a budget of over 4 billion per year. Transport is a vital feature of the Scottish Governments focus on increasing sustainable economic growth and transport investments and policies have major impacts on the economy people and the environment.

The Scottish Government is the devolved government for Scotland. We have responsibility for a wide range of key policy areas including: education health the economy justice housing and transport. We offer rewarding careers and employ people across Scotland in a wide range of professions and roles.

Our staff are part of theUK Civil Service working for Ministers and senior stakeholders to deliver vital public services which improve the lives of the people of Scotland.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more aboutwhat we offer.

As part of the UK Civil Service we uphold theCivil Service Nationality Rules.

Working Pattern

Our standard hours are 35 hours per week. We offer a range of flexible and hybrid working options depending on the needs of the role. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for please contact us.

You will require to be office based twice per week.

Security checks

Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks Identity Right to work Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).

You can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website or read about the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide.

Equality Statement

We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.

Find out more about our commitment todiversityand how we offer and supportrecruitment adjustmentsfor anyone who needs them.

Further information

For further information on this vacancy please contact Julie Wallace by email at

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Apply Before: 25th November (23:59)