Portsmouth City Council

Strategic Transport Lead - Transport Planning
Reference: AUG20220555
Location: Civic Offices, Guildhall Walk, Portsmouth
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £40,578 - £44,624 Per Annum
Closing date: 11 September 2022

Portsmouth City Council
At Portsmouth City Council we’re all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority’s main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to Multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

Your New Role
You will develop and deliver innovative, strategic transport projects which consider varied and complex stakeholder needs, delivering towards the vision and objectives of the Portsmouth Transport Strategy and national transport priorities.

You will provide input to and represent Portsmouth City Council at Solent Transport, and other external partnership bodies as required as well as provide technical transport planning advice to internal and external clients.

You will be involved with the project management of monitoring the outcome of the interventions and schemes, and make recommendations for the future.

You will remain up to date and compliant with all relevant guidance and legislation, organisational procedures, policies and professional codes of conduct in order to uphold standards of best practice. Additionally, you will assist the team to remain up to date and compliant.

What you’ll need to succeed
You will have a relevant first degree in a relevant discipline or demonstrable equivalent professional experience. You will be able to communicate verbal messages (which may be complicated or sensitive) clearly, concisely and at a level appropriate to the audience, who may not be specialists in transport planning. You will have the ability to represent the service at highly challenging internal/ external meetings, with integrity and confidence. You will demonstrate high levels of verbal communication and reasoning, putting forward persuasive and compelling arguments.

You will keep up to date with best practice in the profession, seeking innovative approaches to transport issues and developing best practice solutions. You will be able to demonstrate higher level thinking skills, in order to think through issues, make connections and establish solutions which draw on this bigger picture view of transport. You will be able to make connections between disparate issues, and creatively combine solutions to solve multiple problems.

If you have well developed project delivery skills with the ability to plan and monitor project plans in order to achieve major projects on time and within budget. If you have a customer focused approach to work which promotes your passion to deliver excellent service and continuous improvement on transport issues for the City’s residents then we would love to hear from you.

What you’ll get in return
As well as highly competitive pay you’ll receive all the benefits of working within a local authority organisation, including flexible working hours, extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme and a fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return. We wish to support all our staffs development throughout, if that’s progression planning or involvement within the on the job apprenticeship scheme we will work together to drive your career. For those with families we have child care benefits as well as discounts with local businesses which can be enjoyed by all.

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What next
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