Senior Officer (Transport Strategy)
Salary: £32,798 - £39,571
Ref: coventrycc/TP/2858/5300
Closing date: 24 July 2022
Location: Friargate, United Kingdom (Incl. Northern Ireland)

Our Values

It’s great to know that you are interested in working with us at Coventry City Council. As a prospective employee, it is important that everyone who works for us is committed to our One Coventry values and shares our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation.

About the team we are recruiting to

Coventry is a city that is changing fast – and we’re looking for skilled people to join our team and help take us into a bright new future. We are a city that is going places - with an inspiring, world-famous history and exciting times ahead.

We’ve been awarded UK City of Culture 2021; home to award-winning universities, top level sport and concerts and famous brands such as Jaguar and Severn Trent. We are a part of the ‘Midlands-Engine’, the home of the UK motor industry and a proud multicultural city.

Major developments are taking shape around the city, including a new-look shopping centre, a water park, new business quarter, restaurants, and a modernised rail station. More and more firms and families are relocating to our city as they see what we have to offer.

Coventry is a great place to live and work and it’s getting even better - and having the right infrastructure is vital.

That’s why we are looking for people who are passionate, dedicated people who, like us, are determined to make real, positive change to Coventry.

Headed by Chief Executive, Martin Reeves, the Council is committed to improving the quality of life for residents and making Coventry a top 10 city. We’re bringing in new, streamlined ways of working and making more use of technology to deliver services to the people who live and work in our city.

We have secured grant funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority and the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership to invest in the city centre to ensure we create a legacy for local people after the city has welcomed the world for its year as City of Culture in 2021.

Building on the work already competed, we will retain the best of the old alongside the best of the new.

Numerous changes have already taken place to transform Coventry's public spaces, with £57m invested in the city since 2011, and an estimated £10m+ by 2021. This has resulted in significant private sector investment in public realm schemes and commercial developments.

Works already taken place include:

• Broadgate
• Cathedral Lanes turned into restaurant area (Wagamama, Las Iguanas, Cosy Club, The Botanist, Bistrot Pierre and MOD Pizza have occupied the space, with more to come)
• One Friargate building and the bridge deck demolition
• The Wave's construction - £36m water park, award-winning leisure offer
• Nationwide building demolition - opening the space into Broadgate and Hertford Street.

We have 887km of carriageways made up of 89km of A roads, 69km of B roads, 64km of C roads and 655km of Unclassified roads.

• 2161km of footways, footpaths and cycleways
• 300 structures, including subways, retaining walls, culverts, gantries, and rights of way structures
• 33,000 street lighting columns, 4,000 lit traffic signs and beacons and 1,500 lit traffic bollards
• 44,000 drainage gullies
• 127 signal controlled junctions, 98 pedestrian crossings, and 115 school patrol flashing lights.

We know how hard our people work in our Highways, Traffic and Transportation Teams, and what it means to have a great manager who makes the time to say 'thank you'. So, with us, your work will always be appreciated and recognised.

We also know that to recruit passionate, dedicated staff in Highways, Traffic and Transportation where there’s simply more demand than available resource, we show our appreciation in other, more tangible ways, too - to make Coventry City Council an attractive place to work in terms of the benefits.

What is the job role?

In this exciting role you will help in shaping and delivering Coventry’s transportation vision to support our ambition to be a top ten city where everybody can share in the benefits of growth.

The successful candidate will support the Principal Officer in the following key areas: developing transportation policies and strategies aligned to our vision, promoting transport infrastructure projects and solutions, liaise with internal and external stakeholders to promote active travel activities, seeking external funding opportunities to help make our vision a reality, and ensuring we have effective procurement and resource strategies in place to deliver a large highways and transportation capital programme.

Who are we looking for?

Key to this role will be knowledge of transport policy and implementation issues, experience of developing and delivering transport strategies and schemes and an ability to work successfully with key partners and stakeholders to deliver transport objectives.

If you feel you have the qualities we are looking to help us deliver a wide-ranging transport programme, including innovative projects such as the Very Light Rail scheme, then we would like to hear from you.

For further information and to apply, please click here.