Transport for the North

Assistant Analyst
Reference: MAR20253612
Expiry date: 12:00, Fri, 11th Apr 2025
Location: Manchester
Salary: £34,891.00 - £39,849.00 Per Annum
Benefits: 28 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays, access to the local government pension scheme, access to various salary sacrifice benefits, access to Flexi-Time Scheme, allowing accrual of up to 18 additional days leave per year
Attachments: AssistantAnalyst3U(Tech).pdf

Transport for the North overview:

Transport for the North was established in 2018 as the first Sub-national Transport Body in England and was formed to transform the transport system across the North of England, providing the infrastructure needed to drive economic growth.

As a partnership, we bring together the North’s twenty-one local transport authorities and business leaders together with Network Rail, National Highways, and HS2 Ltd and working with Central Government. We enable the North to speak with one voice on the transport infrastructure investment needed to drive transformational growth and rebalance the UK economy.

Our role is to add strategic value by ensuring that funding and strategy decisions about transport in the North are informed by local knowledge and requirements. This fits with the devolution agenda and we will draw powers down from central government rather than up from local government.

Our vision is of a thriving North of England, where modern transport connections drive economic growth and support an excellent quality of life.

Role overview:
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Analyst to further strengthen our transport modelling and analysis team within TAME, establishing ourselves as a centre of excellence for modelling and analytics across The North and an innovator in the industry.

The Assistant Analyst will provide supporting input into the technical delivery of a broad range of analytical activates across the TAME portfolio, such as transport modelling and economic appraisal, python programming and general transport analytics, working with TAME colleagues to meet customers’ needs and expectations across TfN, our local and national partners.

At our Assistant Analyst level working in the TAME team you will be required to provide data, analytics and assurance services, as set out within your role profile below, to support the delivery of the Governments Integrated Rail Plan in accordance with TfN’s Grant Funding Agreement with the Department for Transport (DfT).

What we are looking for:
We have roles available across TAME, requiring a range of analytical skills. We are seeking candidates who:
• Are passionate about the role of transport in the North to support local and regional aims
• Have experience in developing effective working relationships with project teams and clients
• Have excellent communication and writing skills
• Have a high level of numeracy with strong problem-solving skills and innovative thinking
• Have qualifications in an appropriate field such as transport planning, engineering, mathematics, computer science, economics, geography or similar

About You:
As an Assistant Analyst you will work in TfN’s TAME team to provide the responsibilities set out in the role profile, supporting colleagues with provision of transport-related evidence for the North as per TfN’s Business Plan activities and on delivery of technical elements of the Governments Integrated Rail Plan.

You will be expected to develop and update elements of TAME’s Analytical Framework and produce robust evidence to inform transport-related decisions.

The work is collaborative and requirements guided with time for training and development and provides an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing and vibrant team, driving the use of innovative techniques to solve real world problems.

Candidates must possess a highly numerate degree or possess substantial equivalent experience.

Closing Date: 12:00pm on 11 April 2025
Provisional Interview Date: w/c 21st April 2025

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

• 28 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays
• Access to the local government pension scheme
• Access to various salary sacrifice benefits, including Travel Pass purchase scheme.
• Access to TfN’s Flexi-Time Scheme, allowing accrual of up to 18 additional days leave per year

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.

All candidates will be required to prove their right to work in the UK as part of the recruitment process.

At TfN, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from women, members of ethnic minority groups and people with disabilities who are currently under-represented.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, all applications will be considered on their merit.

As an organisation we always strive to do the right thing and understand that in order to make a difference in our society and workplace, we must be committed to respecting equality and diversity, showing kindness, tackling discrimination and promoting inclusion and have signed the CIHT Diversity and Inclusion Charter Statement to further endorse our commitment. We are also an accredited Living Wage Employer, this means that every employee earns a real Living Wage and are recognised as Disability Confident employer (stage 2) acting as a disability confident champion within our local and business communities and business networks.