Senior Sustainable Travel Officer

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RJ

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £34,350 - £37,950 per annum - pro rata for part time

Working Hours: 30 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Sunday 24th November 2024

Interview Date(s): Thursday 5th November 2024 (subject to change)

This is an exciting opportunity for a driven and ambitious individual who has an interest in Active and Sustainable Travel to work within a large and multi-faceted team to drive forward the council's sustainable travel agenda, which includes the vision for Leicestershire to become a county where walking and cycling are safe, accessible and obvious choices for short journeys, and a natural part of longer journeys, helping to deliver healthier, greener communities.

The work of the team includes the promotion of cycling, walking, wheeling, car-sharing and public transport, the management of the council's supported passenger transport network and the council's extensive Public Rights of Way network.

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a Senior Sustainable Travel Office at 30 hours per week to facilitate the delivery of both local and national strategies and targets, working with a range of internal and external partners to develop and deliver a range of promotional schemes and projects across the county under the Choose How You Move brand.

As well as delivering projects the role will require the organisation and running of various events such as Leicestershire's Cycling, Walking and Wheeling Forum, supporting the Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure (LCWIPs) development programme and managing the Choose How You Move Active and Sustainable Grants scheme.

Duties will also include guiding developers to mitigate the impact of single car occupancy use for new developments pre and post planning stage. You will also be ensuring that developers are meeting the required standards set out in relevant guidance relating to Travel Plans and support the delivery and monitoring of active and sustainable initiatives which have been condition through Section 106 Obligations.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Qualifications: Degree or equivalent relevant qualification or proven relevant experience in the areas below.
• Good knowledge and understanding of active and sustainable travel and transport, together with a customer-focused approach where the customer experience is central to the delivery of the service.
• Experience of developing and influencing successful relationships with internal and external stakeholders and partners, such as schools, businesses, transport operators and communities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills including communicating at all levels and to a wide range of audiences effectively with understanding, tact, and diplomacy, whilst maintaining an objective, assertive and professional stance.
• Effective time, resource and project management skills, to be able to work in a team environment, to manage varied workloads and an ability to work to tight timescales and to agreed targets.
• Excellent ICT skills, including a knowledge and understanding of Microsoft office programmes particularly within Microsoft Excel and use of bespoke databases and map-based programmes.

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:

Jessica Herbert, Safe & Sustainable Travel Manager

Telephone: 0116 305 3331

Email: Jessica.Herbert@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 the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application that should be no longer than 500 words 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.

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About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a 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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