Tameside

Principal Transport Strategy Officer

About the Role
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade J. SCP 40 - £49,764 to SCP 43 - £52,805 with a professional bar at SCP 41 £50,788**
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne
Assessment Date: To be arranged
Expires 30/12/2024

The Role
We’re changing how we do transport in Tameside and we want you to join us. Tameside is part of the Bee Network, Greater Manchester’s fully integrated transport system, bringing together buses, trams, rail and active travel to transform how people travel.

This is a busy and exiting time, with Tameside at the heart of the devolution agenda, where transport will play a vital role in supporting growth and prosperity as part of the UK’s largest regional economy outside of London.

Significant government investment is to transform transport links across the north including multi-billion-pound Trans Pennine Rail Upgrades on lines and stations throughout Tameside and work set to start on the £250 million A57 upgrade, to reduce journey times and drive growth and we want to you to be a part of it.

As the Borough’s Principal Transport Officer, you’ll lead our insight, evidence and strategy approaches, presenting compelling cases that help shape Tameside’s future transport networks in tandem with our growth ambitions. You’ll work collaboratively and proactively with our neighbours, Transport for Greater Manchester and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. You will be an integral part of delivering major projects and sustainable growth in Tameside, including through our bold plans for Godley Green, Ashton’s Mayoral Development Zone and wider town centre regeneration ambitions.

About You
You will need to have an enthusiasm for the Bee Network and our ambitions to develop a fully integrated transport system that makes Tameside and Greater Manchester the place that makes travel easier.

You will have developed extensive knowledge of transport planning through your wide-ranging experience and will be able to hit the ground running, able to communicate complex information to varied audiences and have the energy to drive change.

You will be flexible, proactive and a team player, passionate about influencing the growth of Tameside, having an enquiring mind with the ability to be flexible, adapt to changing workload demands and new organisational challenges.

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you.

About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 07970456260 or [email protected] 

Reference Number: DPT461

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