Permanent
Senior Transport Modeller - Permanent
Senior Transport Modeller
Civil Service Grade: Senior Executive Officer (SEO)
Salary Minimum: £38,654 + £2k Modeller Retention allowance
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Type(s): Analytical
Civil Service Profession: Transport Modelling
DfT Directorate: Local Transport
Location(s): London, Leeds, Birmingham
Reporting to Job Title: Head of Local Transport Modelling
Job summary
The Department for Transport are recruiting for two Senior Transport Modellers within the Local Transport Modelling team. Candidates will have proven expertise in using complex models to solve analytical problems and the ability to communicate analysis effectively to inform decision-making. Working as part of a wider team, you’ll get the opportunity to work on leading-edge, multi-criteria models and influence the both the present and future day-to-day lives of UK citizens.
DfT is committed to the professional development of its Modellers and Analysts. The posts offer significant benefits to help boost your professional career.
We offer:
• Potential to learn across all aspects of transport and land use modelling
• Access to further learning, such as the use of transport modelling software and data spatial software.
• Opportunities to attend and represent the Department at conferences (Modelling World, European Transport Conference) and grow your Transport Modelling Network through attending presentations and courses on the latest academic thinking and research on emerging topics that will shape the future of transport.
• Participation in an active and thriving analytical community, working closely with colleagues in Data Science, Economics, Social Research, Statistics, Operational Research, Science and Engineering
• A culture supportive of flexible working practices tailored to individual needs and circumstances, e.g. opportunity to work from home on some days, or to vary working hours
Your skills as a Transport Modeller/Analysts are recognized and acknowledged within the department allowing you to work on a variety of projects within difference policy areas.
Duties and responsibilities
The Local Transport Modelling Team plays a vital role in the development of policy and informing investment decision-making that has a real and tangible impact on users. It forms part of Local Roads and Transport Analysis (LRTA) group which is a high achieving fast-paced multi-disciplinary analytical team that works closely with policy teams and covers high political priority areas including:
• Tackling congestion and driving economic growth through managing a potential £5.5bn investment in the major road network whilst balancing the need to deliver wider policy objects around carbon and levelling up
• Tackling the housing crisis and supporting the ambition to build new homes over the decade through improved infrastructure
• Economic rebalancing, improving intra-regional connectivity and boosting economic growth in the UK’s
Transport modellers in LRTA work in project-based environment, supporting policy teams on a wide range of projects, and delivering high impact advice to support decisions at the highest level. Posts in this team offers the opportunity to use your analysis expertise to help design government policy.
The role of a Senior Modeller/ Analyst will include:
• Providing analytical advice and modelling review;
• Working with external stakeholders to develop modelling analysis to support to decision making
• Advising on specific modelling issues both to DfT customers and the external
• Commissioning modelling from external consultants, project managing their work and assuring outputs
The role requires the ability to deliver progress on long term model development activities. The post will include managing contracts with external suppliers, giving direction to scheme promoters and ensuring solutions are proportionate and pragmatic, meet requirements and are delivered to timescale. Prior experience in the development or application of transport models is essential and a demonstrable experience of the application, and understanding, of TAG.
Post holders will have understanding of project management techniques. When managing their own time and resources, they should be able to demonstrate flexibility, prioritising workload appropriately in what can sometimes be a rapidly changing policy environment.
Person specification
Behaviours
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the following behaviours at SEO level:
Making Effective Decisions
- Analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support decisions.
- Communicating and Influencing
- Communicate in a straightforward, honest and engaging manner, choosing appropriate styles to maximise understanding and impact.
Working together
Establish professional relationships with a range of stakeholders. Collaborate with these to share information, resources and support. Actively seek and consider input of people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Delivering at pace
Regularly review the success of activities to identify barriers to progress or challenging objectives. Identify who and what is required to ensure success, set clear goals and areas of responsibility. Follow relevant policies, procedures and legislation to complete your work. Have a positive and focused attitude to achieving outcomes, despite any setbacks.
More information about Behaviours: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717275/CS_Behaviours_2018.pdf
Experience
• Experience in developing and using transport models to solve complex problems.
• Experience in undertaking analysis on modelling outputs to arrive at conclusions around modelling suitability and performance.
• Knowledge of appropriate modelling guidance and references.
• Experience of communicating complex data and ideas clearly and tactfully to a range of technical and non-technical audiences in an authoritative, informative and engaging manner.
More information about experiences:
Strengths
You will be assessed against Civil Service Strengths at interview.
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