Worcestershire County Council

Principal Highways and Transport Liaison Officer
Salary: £37,724 - £40,506
Full-Time: 35 hours
Location: Worcester
Permanent

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to lead a driven, dynamic and supportive team which provides you with a flexible and varied role and offers great benefits?

We are looking for a highly organised, outgoing and friendly candidate to join our Highways and Transport Liaison team as a Principal County Liaison Officer.

Our County Liaison Officers act as ambassadors for the County Council and they are the main contacts for elected County Councillors (Members) when it comes to enquiries relating to highways and transport matters.

As Principal Liaison Officer, you will be responsible for an area where you will manage, coordinate and deliver Highways and Transport projects and work closely with members to ensure obstacles are overcome as well as being the lead officer of a team of 7 County Liaison Officers.

If you’re a confident communicator, then this could be just the role for you, as you will be the direct link between the County Council and the elected Members. You must be able to manage a team and build strong, professional relationships with a variety of people from many different backgrounds. You must also be able to offer guidance and support to the team and Members on major projects and operational issues.

As a Principal Liaison Officer, you will also liaise with other external key stakeholders such as the emergency services, MPs, members of the public and you may be required to attend stakeholder forums.

You will also be responsible for ensuring Worcestershire County Council's priorities and aspirations are at the heart of what they do and managed appropriately in accordance with policies and procedures.

The post is varied, exciting and diverse, offering new challenges every day. It’s desirable that you have a good knowledge of Highways legislation, practices and procedures. However, if you don’t but have a number of the other qualities and the right attitude, we’d love to hear from you.

The successful candidate will be part of a friendly, supportive and welcoming team. Together, you and your team will help to deliver and support key projects within Worcestershire.

If you have a real ‘can do’ attitude, enjoy travelling throughout our beautiful county and thrive on problem solving and communicating in a timely and clear way, then we’d love to hear from you.

We believe staff development is a key aspect for professional and personal growth and we provide a range of courses to support this. We are happy to provide opportunities to enable you to achieve your ambitions and empower you to develop your own skills.

Benefits:

In return, you can look forward to:
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays
• 35-hour working week, with flexible working, including remote working opportunities
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and training.

Disability Confident:

We are inclusive – this is really important to us and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.

There are 7.6m working age people who have a disability or health condition. We’re tapping into this talent pool.

If you have a disability and require reasonable adjustments, please let us know.

To apply please click here.

Application Closing Date: Friday 19th November 2021.