Senior Active Travel Network Officer
Want to play a leading role in planning and delivering the biggest transformation in active travel infrastructure in the UK? Here is your opportunity!
Your Role
As Senior Active Travel Network Officer, you will shape the future of active travel in Greater Manchester. You’ll be playing a leading role in ensuring that our current infrastructure programmes are delivered to GM’s exacting design standards.You’ll lead work with local authorities to develop future plans for the active travel network and ensure that we deliver the commitment of the Greater Manchester Active Travel Commissioner, Dame Sarah Storey, to an active travel network which connects all communities in Greater Manchester, by 2040.
Reporting to, and working closely with, the Active Travel Network Manager, you will play a key part in ensuring design quality in active travel schemes in Greater Manchester as a member of TfGM’s Design Review Panel (DRP). You’ll take a crucial role in developing future plans for active travel infrastructure in partnership with Greater Manchester district highway authorities and other partner organisations.This work will also feed into major funding bids, to secure additional resources for future active travel schemes.
For more information, please see the role profile at the bottom of the advert.
Who are we?
TfGM is the local government body responsible for transport in Greater Manchester. We’re all about keeping Greater Manchester moving and growing. Our job is to bring everyone together, improving lives by connecting people and places. We co-ordinate a c£250m programme of active travel infrastructure delivery across Greater Manchester, and we are now delivering active travel infrastructure at around 100 times the rate we were 5 years ago.This is active travel’s time, and Greater Manchester is the place to be.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
You’ll be an effective communicator, skilled at developing and maintaining effective working relationships with partner organisations. You will also have experience of planning and delivering high quality active travel infrastructure projects.In addition you will have the ability to provide technical advice on active travel infrastructure to design teams and compile clear and concise technical and non-technical reports for a range audiences. Experience in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) would also be valuable.
What we can offer you
A perm term role with a salary of £46,249 - £51,576 per annum depending on skills and experience. At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.
Our benefits include:
- 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
- Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
- Free bus travel within Greater Manchester and free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
- Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
- Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
What's next?
If you have the skills and experience required for this role and would like to make a massive impact delivering transformational active travel infrastructure in Greater Manchester, we would love to hear from you!
To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents.If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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