Information Strategy Manager – Integrated and Smart Travel   

Reference:

Closing date:

10AM, Wednesday 25^th January 2017

Location:

Flexible across the North of England, but with a requirement to regularly work from our offices in Leeds.

Salary:

Circa £50,000 per annum

Attachments:

RoleProfile-InformationStrategyManager-Smart.docx

Transport for the North (TfN) is a unique partnership, established in October 2014, between the 19 Northern Local Transport Authorities, Department for Transport, Network Rail, High Speed 2 Ltd and Highways England. TfN allows the North to speak with a coherent and integrated approach to pan-Northern strategic transport planning and investment in order to achieve transformational economic growth.

TfN expects to gain statutory status by becoming England’s first Sub-national Transport Body (STB) in 2017. TfN is currently developing an integrated, multi-modal Strategic Transport Plan which will set the long-term sequenced investment priorities for TfN as an STB.

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), on behalf of TfN, is looking to recruit the following role:

The role - Two Year Fixed-Term Contract / Secondment (public sector bodies only):

The Information Strategy Manager will lead the development and delivery of the Information Strategy for an ambitious programme to transform transport information, ticketing and payments across the North of England, maximising benefits realisation and timely delivery of all required programme outcomes.

The Information Strategy Manager will be responsible for:

·         Developing, through joint work with a range of partners, a pan-northern approach to enhancing customer information that builds upon current services but addresses ‘gaps’ around fares and service disruption information.

·         Developing, by working with the wider Transport for the North team, banding and marketing propositions for the Integrated and Smart Travel programme.

·         Exploring the use of open data to enhance customer information provision

·         Planning and commissioning projects within the overall Integrated and Smart Programme

What we’re looking for:

The successful candidate will have extensive experience of managing the provision of diverse information to large numbers of people across a wide geographic area. You will customer focussed, dynamic and a forward thinking professional to drive this important work-stream as part of our mission to make transport across the north simple and easy to use.  A sound understanding of transport data management systems is required.

In return, as well as a competitive salary, our other benefits are:

• 27 days holiday per annum
  
  
• Access to the local government pension scheme

For more information on the role and the kind of person we’re looking for please refer to the role profile and person specification.

If you believe you have the skills and experience we’re looking for please apply online, ensuring that in your application you provide evidence in the form of specific examples of how you meet the essential criteria in the role profile (e.g. E1,E2,E3,E4..).