Graduate Advisor (Crowd Modelling/ People Movement/ Human Behaviour) 2025

Ready to kick start your career and make a difference in the world of pedestrian movement and modelling? If you are a recent graduate or will be graduating in 2025, we want YOU to join our dynamic team at GHD!

GHD’s Movement Strategies team is the largest and most experienced specialist people movement consultancy in the world. Founded in 2005, and part of GHD since 2019, our multinational team of consultants advises clients and projects around the world, including Wembley, Anfield and Tottenham Hotspur, Wimbledon Championships, Football World Cups, Paris 2024 Olympics, Expo Pavilions, the Tower of London, Bank Station and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Movement Strategies is part of GHD Advisory, an integrated part of GHD’s connected network of over 11,000 people, which has a track record of delivering insightful advice and robust outcomes for our clients for more than 90 years. GHD Advisory addresses the need for business outcomes that challenge the status quo in our rapidly changing environment, offering services relating to infrastructure investment and economics, asset management, risk, assurance and regulation.

Are you keen to develop your career in pedestrian movement and modelling? Does the opportunity to help design and operate stadia and arenas, healthcare, transport, cultural venues and security sectors, in a fast paced, innovative environment sound like the step you are looking for? As part of our rapid growth in the UK and Middle East, we are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Graduate Advisor to work in our team.

Working within GHD’s UK Advisory team, this position offers the opportunity to support the development of the Movement Strategies presence and market share as part of GHD’s global growth.

People movement is not simply a theoretical exercise. It changes the way individuals experience spaces, improving their visit and making the space safer, more efficient and more profitable. We work with many high-profile clients and on projects across the globe to make better buildings, places and communities. Our understanding of people movement allowed us to support our clients with their response to COVID-19 and continues to influence the shape of the world around us.

Graduate Development at GHD

The Graduate Development Program is an integrated approach to developing future leaders and technical specialists.

During the program, you will learn about our business and our values, your team, and most importantly, yourself. You will develop your decision-making, communication, technical and leadership skills. 

We offer mentoring and a variety of development activities, providing on the job experience and exposure to a diverse range of projects. 

The position

Based in our London office we are looking for a candidate to work in the Movement Strategies team to support with the delivery of projects from day one. Your role will develop as your knowledge of our business and technical skill increases. Initially you will:

• Support across a range of sectors, developing an understanding of the techniques, standards and methods that are applied to different scenarios.
• With support from Senior Consultants, you will deliver and be accountable for developing static and dynamic simulation models, preparing reports and providing findings and recommendations based on the analysis of data.
• Work alongside Project Managers to manage client expectations, carry out site observations and present project outcomes.
• Help win work, including writing technical proposals and marketing materials.

What you will bring to the team

• A degree in a relevant subject including but not limited to mathematics, economics, statistics, operational research, geo-spatial analysis, physics, organisational psychology, transport and/or engineering.
• Demonstrable experience and confidence analysing and interpreting data.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel. Awareness of the following packages and their applications is helpful: Legion, Pathfinder, Mass Motion, GIS, Viswalk and/or CAD and Bluebeam.
• A good standard of written and spoken English.

Our commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

What working at GHD offers

We are committed to the success of our people, which is why we want to create the best employee experience that supports each member through all the stages of their career. Here is what we offer:

• A competitive salary.
• A comprehensive benefits package; pension, medical insurance, income protection, 25 days holiday with the option to buy an additional 4 weeks.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – cycle to work, discounted gym membership, season ticket loan, discounts on retail & wellbeing classes.
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform.
• Wellbeing resources and tools, and demonstration of our commitment to wellbeing by signing up to the Mental Health at Work Commitment.
• Team led flexible working.
• Opportunities to grow your skills and shape your career towards technical expertise, developing the market or leading a business or team.
• International, multi-cultural team of highly motivated individuals.
• An exciting referral program (bring people with you)

Please note that for graduate positions, we do not offer sponsorship for work visas or immigration. Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Ready to start your career and make a difference? Please hit the ‘apply now’ button, and should your application be successful, a member of our team will reach out to you.

At GHD we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD aims to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or race.