Senior Road Safety Education Officer

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RJ

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £33.060 - £36,660 (Pro-rata for part time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Sunday 19th May 2024

Interview Date(s): Week commencing 3rd June (subject to change)

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Road Safety Education Officer to join the Traffic & Safety Team in the Environment and Transport Department. We are looking for someone to lead on developing and shaping our road safety education programme of initiatives to schools and the wider community by supporting the delivery of integrated strategies for education, training and promotion that support behaviour change and the safe and sustainable use of the transport network.

About the Role

You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with diverse priorities. In return you will get a chance to manage and support exciting and innovative road safety education projects that will shape the plan for how road safety education is delivered to schools and the wider community in Leicestershire.

You will have the vision to identify and develop road safety education initiatives and the skills to manage and implement this to influence and inspire individuals to adopt safer road user behaviour and to support active travel.

You will be an excellent collaborator and able to establish and maintain partnership working relationships with colleagues and external partners, plus ensure good working relationships with our service users in order to achieve common outputs and outcomes to raise awareness of road safety education and active travel.

You will have experience of line managing staff, their work programmes, professional development and associated work programme budget. This role will involve providing technical support and guidance to junior staff that line manage the School Crossing Patrol's and deliver the road safety initiatives.

You will support on the preparation of external funding bids and reports for Senior Management and Lead Member; you will provide advice on road safety education and respond to queries from all interested parties.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Degree or equivalent qualification or proven work experience in a public focused business; achieved First4Sport Level 2 Instructing Cycle Training or agreement to undertake this training; evidence of continued learning and development.
• A customer focused approach where the customer experience is central to the delivery of our service; have sound experience in collaborative working and of developing and influencing relationships with internal and external stakeholders to build positive relationships based on trust to achieve common outputs and outcomes for service users.
• Strong planning and organisational skills; efficient at service planning and delivery on Projects and Programmes with a varied workload working to tight timescales and to agreed targets; experience of line managing staff and supporting their professional development and supervision of their work, including managing and engaging a remote workforce and volunteers; flexible approach, able to use own initiative and work well as part of an effective team.
• Excellent communication, presentation, problem solving, analytical, numerical, creative thinking skills with attention to detail; IT skills, including a knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Office Programs and ability to learn the use of service specific systems and software to produce materials to present at meetings and presentations.
• Good experience and knowledge of creating, delivering and promoting road safety education initiatives including the Bikeability Cycle Training Programme and of the Internal and External Quality Assurance requirements.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Helen Simpson, Road Safety Education Manager

Telephone: 0116 305 6579

Email: Helen.Simpson@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a CV with a supporting statement that should be no longer than 500 words as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Stonewall Top 100, Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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