Contract
Transport Projects Officer - 2 year fixed term
Transport Projects Officer
£39,951 – 42,840 per annum
2 years Fixed-Term Contract
Full-time, 36 hours per week
Job Reference: R0006369
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.
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Programme & Strategy team, as a Transport Projects Officer. In this role you’ll be assisting the Strategic Projects Manager to develop and deliver a range of projects, most of which form part of our emerging Parking and Kerbside Strategies. These include dockless e-bikes, car club expansion, urban greening, drinking water fountains, a school bus feasibility study, emissions-based charging, crossover policy, wayfinding and technology reviews.
This is a great opportunity to gain experience in the development and delivery of a diverse range of transport and parking projects, enhancing your project management, partnership working and communication skills in the process.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
You’ll be working in the Programme & Strategy team, which sits within the Transport & Parking division. The team is responsible for delivering a number of the council’s strategic transport projects, as well as helping to monitor contracts, delivery and performance across the division.
A current focus is the development and delivery of a range of initiatives falling under the emerging Parking and Kerbside Strategy. The team is also responsible for a range of other strategic projects such the delivery of over 2000 new electric vehicle charging points. These transformational projects play an important part in delivering the Council’s Corporate Plan and transport objectives.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
1. You have experience in project managing successful transport and/or parking projects in an urban setting. Through this experience you will have developed a good understanding of current best practice in the promotion of sustainable transport. You will have experience of strategy development, project design/delivery and/or behaviour change, ideally within a local government context.
2. You have experience in developing and leading partnership projects or services. This could be with other teams, local authorities, third sector stakeholders or businesses. You are a high performing individual who works collaboratively with others to achieve targets and service objectives. You also have the interpersonal, negotiation and organisational skills required to make these partnerships a success.
3. You have excellent written communication skills. This means you have the ability to clearly and concisely draft a range of different written documents, including reports, briefing notes, project briefs, fudding bids and correspondence. Key to this is being able to summarise complex proposals, often using non-technical language, that is suitable for a range of audiences. You will be able to executive this with minimal managerial input.
4. You possess excellent oral communication skills. You have the ability to present information and projects for consideration clearly, concisely and persuasively.
5. You are enthusiastic, approachable and act with integrity. This allows you to engage positively with colleagues, stakeholders and partners. You have a calm and clear approach to dealing with contentious and emotive issues to ensure the reputation of the team and council is maintained and ensure successful outcomes for our residents and community.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
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: 07976 702051
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 1st April 2024.
Closing Date: 25th March 2024
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