Road Safety Manager

Job Location:  Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

Job Title: Road Safety Manager
Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 5, 6th Floor
Salary: £50,990 - £54,683 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 19/11/2023
Job Requisition Number: 7251
This post is not open to job share

Are you ready to take up a 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 Road Safety Manager. You will oversee expansion of the Road Safety team and be responsible for a rolling programme of investment in road safety. The Road Safety team forms part of the new Traffic and Active Travel team encouraging walking and cycling and providing safer streets for all road users.

This role will offer you the opportunity to be involved in some of the most significant and ambitious service initiatives the sector has to offer, including working towards achieving the challenging goals of a 50% KSI reduction target by 2032 and Vision Zero by 2050. You will use your significant experience and expertise in road safety engineering and the promotion of road safety and active travel to propose suitable solutions and provide advice.

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

About You:

As the Road Safety Manager, you will play a vital role in keeping the travelling public safe throughout the highway network in our county. You will achieve this by working with the Road Safety Partnership, promoting a Safe Systems Approach to Road Safety, developing policy, securing funding for the team and its projects, championing the delivery of road safety measures and processes and supporting other parts of the council in ensuring that new developments and other highways schemes are safe for all users.

You will manage engineers, transport data officers and the ThinkTravel team. You will develop and secure political approval of budgets for Road Safety. You will spearhead road safety including overseeing the delivery of a range of measures and overseeing the development and implementation of these measures through their life cycle and day to day, this will include including a programme of Road Safety engineering schemes, ensuring that road safety audits are undertaken, the collection, use and analysis of transport and road safety data, guiding the promotion of active travel  by the ThinkTravel team through education, training, crossing patrols for schools and managing schemes such as e-bike loan.

Your vast communication, negotiation and influencing skills will aid you in building successful close working relationships with partners in the Road Safety Partnership including the Police and Fire and Rescue, internal and external stakeholders and Council Members to develop and agree policies and coordinate effective collaborative approaches to resolving road safety issues.

To be considered, this role requires someone who is persuasive, politically savvy, and resilient. You will have significant experience in Road Safety including the implementation of Road Safety Engineering measures.  You will have completed Road Safety Audit training (Rospa) with relevant professional membership ICE, IHE, CIHT.

About us:

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

• 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 Cycle 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

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:- https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/jetnxaxz/jp-road-safety-manager-amended-19-10-2023.pdf

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