Contract
Active Travel and Road Safety Officer - Fixed Term Contract / Secondment Opportunity until 1st May 2027
Active Travel & Road Safety Officer
Salary: £38,364 - £40,833 per annum Grade: PO1
Hours per Week: 36
Nature of Employment: Fixed Term Contract / Secondment Opportunity until 1st May 2027.
Location: Hounslow House, TW3 3EB.
Job Reference: R0006377
About us at Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
The Role
As our Active Travel & Road Safety Officer, you’ll be responsible for the day-to-day management of our road safety education and cycle training programmes, helping the Road Safety Manager to develop and improve what we offer to our residents. You will also work closely with our Transport Planning team and other colleagues across the council to promote active and sustainable travel.
You’ll liaise with our external cycle training partner, helping to manage our 6 cycle training hubs and maximising training opportunities for all our residents including our school children.. Your enthusiasm and ability to look for innovative solutions will help us to broaden our offer.
You will also help to manage our road safety education programme, helping us with the vital job of making our streets safer and giving our residents the confidence and skills to travel sustainably. The majority of collisions in the borough are caused by road user behaviour so helping to educate people and promote road safety is essential in working towards our aim of no fatalities or serious injuries on our roads by 2041.
The Team
You’ll sit in our Transport Planning & Road Safety team who are passionate about promoting sustainable travel, working with colleagues across the council and our external partners.
As a team we work closely together and are focused on delivering our target for 71% of all journeys to be made by sustainable modes by 2041 as well as ensuring our residents have the skills and confidence to walk, wheel and cycle when they can. We will be updating our transport strategy in 2024 and will then look to ensure this is delivered, whether that is through influencing developers, promoting and providing road safety education for our residents, or working with colleagues in the Transport & Parking team and across the council.
You
An experienced project and people manager with experience in delivering road safety and/or active travel programmes or projects you’ll be able to work quickly and efficiently across a portfolio of projects. Knowledge of the transport planning and policy context that exists in London is important, and you’ll have a solid understanding of best practice in promoting sustainable travel and travel-demand management initiatives.
As a skilful communicator, you’ll be able to liaise with our partners to deliver innovative and high-quality cycle training and road safety education, training and promotion.
Above all, you should be passionate about working collaboratively as part of an innovative team, helping us to achieve our challenging targets to improve safety and increase sustainable travel.
Experience and Knowledge:
• You will have knowledge and understanding of current best practice in the behavioural change techniques used in road safety and active travel including designing evidence-based behaviour change campaigns to improve Road Safety and increase the uptake of active travel.
• You will have experience of engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and analysing data.
• You will have experience of developing projects and programmes and managing them on a day-to-day basis, ideally related to road safety and/or cycle training including contract monitoring.
• You will have experience in developing and writing reports and briefings for senior decision makers
Skills and Abilities:
• You will have excellent communication skills and experience of partnership working with different organisations both statutory and voluntary.
• You will have the ability to help manage and motivate team members.
• You will undertake site visits independently across the borough when needed, ensuring that projects and programmes are being delivered.
• You will organise and deliver community events – with some occasional work at weekends/evenings.
Personal Style and Behaviours:
• You will have an open and approachable manner that allows you to engage positively with colleagues, stakeholders and partners, including voluntary & community groups to promote the benefits of active and sustainable travel.
• You will have the ability to persuade others of the merits of proposals needed to achieve the the team’s objectives.
• You will also have a calm and clear approach to dealing with contentious and emotive issues to ensure the reputation of the team and council is maintained.
Essential for The Role:
Appointment to this post will be subject to a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check.
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 8583 5036
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 22nd April 2024.
Closing Date: 25th March 2024
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