London Borough of Hounslow

Assistant Transport Planner
Salary: £29,583 – £36,567 Grade: Scale 5/SO1 Career grade
Hours per Week: 36
Nature of Employment: Permanent
DBS Required: Enhanced
Location: Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3EB.
Job Reference: R0006641

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.

Our Benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these on our website.

About the Role
Exciting things are happening here in Hounslow! Our diverse team is finding all sorts of ways to make our borough an even better place to be for our residents and visitors alike. By dealing with a wide range of transport planning issues from major strategic transport projects to road safety education, our Transport Planning & Road Safety team is central to our success.

We are committed to delivering our objectives to make Hounslow a cleaner, greener, safer, healthier, thriving and liveable place for our residents. Ensuring people have high quality options to travel is an essential part of this aim. Whether that is encouraging more people to walk, wheel and cycle more, or working with partners to improve our public transport network you will be at the heart of our aim to improve health, respond to the climate emergency and reduce congestion.

As Assistant Transport Planner you’ll be assisting and managing the development, implementation and evaluation of transport policy including our school streets programme development. This role will also support the updating and implementing our Transport Strategy which is about making our transport network healthy, clean, green, safe and accessible. You will also feed into responsibility for the development of businesses case for transport interventions and support funding bids. You will also lead the borough School Travel Planning programme (Travel for Life).

You’ll have the opportunity to expand your skillset in transport policy, data management and oversight, and engagement with key stakeholders.

About the Team You’ll Be Working In
You will be working as part of the Council’s Transport Planning & Road Safety team, reporting to the Senior Strategic Transport Planner, and will be part of a multi-disciplinary project teams that breaks down departmental barriers to ensure the continual delivery of transport policy and programmes that support achieving the Council’s corporate and transport objectives.

About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to apply:

Knowledge and understanding of current best practice in the promotion of sustainable transport – both in terms of transport policy development and behaviour change initiatives.

Ability to manage projects successfully with a good working understanding of practical risk, financial and performance management techniques.

Good written and verbal communications skills; an ability to summarise complex proposals into non-technical language and draft clear, concise and accurate reports and an ability to present information and projects for consideration clearly, concisely and persuasively.

Ability to research and process technical and/or legislative guidance, and use findings to inform recommendations or options for a given project, so that projects meet any relevant standards or requirements.

Good ICT skills, preferably experience of using Microsoft Applications, such as Outlook, Excel and Word and GIS skills are desirable.

We are looking for a candidate with a willingness to learn and develop yourself, which will be supported through both on the job and off the job training.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile. Appointment to this post will be subject to a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check.

Qualifications:
• No essential qualifications are required for this role if all essential employee specification provisions are met.
• A degree level Transport Planning qualification or other related degree is desirable but not essential.

Essential for the Role:
Appointment to this post will be subject to a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check.

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. 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!

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] 
Email: [email protected] 
Telephone: 07816070741

Interviews for this role will be held during week commencing 30/09/24. The interview format will be a 10 minute presentation followed by questions. Further details will be shared with successful candidates who are invited to interview.

Closing date is 16 September 2024.

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