Gloucestershire County Council

Traffic and Active Travel Manager

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 5, 6th Floor
Salary: £59,682 - £64,608 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 19/11/2023
Job Requisition Number: 7299
This post is not open to job share

Are you ready to take up an exciting vital role?  Want to shape the future of Gloucestershire and create a safer, more accessible and sustainable highways network?

About The Team & Role:

Gloucestershire County Council is looking to recruit a Traffic and Active Travel Manager. You will be leading and developing a dynamic team challenged with improving the highways infrastructure to improve safety, and accessibility and sustainable travel across rural and urban communities in the county. You will oversee the work of the Road Safety team including ThinkTravel, the Traffic Regulation Order team, and establishing our in-house Traffic Engineering design and delivery team, ensuring that our council achieves its objectives to meet the needs of our community by making roads safer and encouraging sustainable travel including walking and cycling.

This role will offer you the opportunity to operate in a varied and fast paced environment. You will use your knowledge and experience to support some of the most significant and ambitious service initiatives the sector

has to offer. Your track record of leading teams focused on traffic and safety engineering and your deep understanding of working in large, complex organisations will be valuable in providing direction for the team in order to meet the transport challenges the Council faces including a 50% reduction in KSIs by 2032 and Vison Zero by 2050 and reducing carbon emissions to Net Zero by 2045. 

As the Traffic and Active Travel Manager, you will be accountable for the implementation of Gloucestershire County Council’s statutory obligations and policies for road safety and the delivery of highway infrastructure schemes through our Road Safety Partnership. Your strategic approach will guide and shape the development of the team whilst adhering to legislative standards and procedures.

To find out more about our highways vacancies, please visit  https://gloucestershire.gov.uk/highways-recruitment/

About you:

As the Traffic and Active Travel Manager, you will play a vital role as a member of our senior leadership team, you will have excellent communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain successful working relationships and provide valuable advice to both internal and external stakeholders, bodies and companies. Engaging and team up with partners, using your negotiation skills to influence effective solutions and secure funding.

Your extensive leadership skills, will give you the ability to provide direction and support to individuals, ensuring you get the best from the team, encouraging freedom for innovative ideas and collaborative teamwork. Your track record of budget and resource management will aid you in manging revenue and capital budget within your area and provide value for money on road safety, active travel, public transport, and climate change schemes.

To be considered for this role, it is essential that you hold a current, full driving license valid for driving in the UK. Degree or relevant equivalent in civil engineering with experience in local highway and road safety engineering.

You will need to be professionally qualified with a relevant UK Engineering body ICE, IHE, CITH to Incorporated or Chartered status.

About us:

As you would expect, we offer an attractive package of benefits which makes a career in Local Government both flexible and rewarding.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for many of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Relocation package up to £8,000
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car and Cycles Scheme (T&C's apply)

How to Apply:

If you want to be part of our talented team, and together face problems head-on then we would like to hear from you.

Please express your interest by submitting your application and personal statement by clicking the “Apply Now” button.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of the role, please contact Philip Williams via email at [email protected]

Additional Information

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