Sustainable Travel Officer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Sustainable Transport Officer to join Southampton City Council’s (SCC) Transport Policy and Sustainable Travel (TPST) team. The TPST team has a proven track record of successful delivery of active travel and sustainable transport projects. The team is passionate, driven and are committed to helping our city’s residents make smarter choices about the way they travel to benefit their physical and mental health, their local environment, and air quality.

The Sustainable Transport Officer role is in the School Travel Team where we work with schools to identify barriers to active travel and road safety issues, and jointly develop action plans to address these issues through behaviour change initiatives, enforcement and infrastructure.

As a Sustainable Transport Officer, you will be working closely with around 20 schools to deliver projects and initiatives to increase the number of pupils and their families travelling actively and sustainably during peak school travel hours. You will manage the day to day running of Southampton City Council’s successful School Streets project, support on the development and delivery of our Safer Routes to School programme, and deliver targeted campaigns, practical activities and events to enhance the impact of these schemes. As well as support the delivery of the wider Sustainable Travel Behaviour Change Programme and work on School Travel Planning.

Further responsibilities include:

• The development of school travel plans and delivery of exciting behaviour change initiatives to encourage and enable active travel.

• Assisting with the development, delivery and activation of Safer Routes to School schemes.

• Enhancing and expanding Southampton City Council’s School Streets project.

• Working collaboratively with other teams to deliver on SCC’s Connected Southampton 2040 objectives.

• Management of complimentary sustainable transport projects.

For further information about this role please view the job description.

About you:

• Good working theoretical and practical knowledge across the area of sustainable travel planning and the strategic and policy framework within which the job is undertaken.

• Excellent and highly developed communication, negotiation and persuasive skills.

• Strong project management and organisational skills

• A proven track record of customer focus, quality and performance

• Professional expertise and experience in providing sustainable travel initiatives and the ability to understand needs and priorities of individuals to enable effective behaviour change.

What we can offer you:

Salary: The salary band for this role is £38,510 - £42,123 per annum. The starting salary is £38,510 with annual progression through the salary bands.

Here at SCC we have a range of different benefits, a few examples can be found below.

• Excellent local government pension with 15.2% employer contribution
• Death in service benefit of x3 salary, and optional salary sacrifice shared cost AVC (additional voluntary contribution)
• Generous holiday 25–31 days, based on role and service
• Flexible working options (role-dependent)
• Family-friendly policies - Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Shared/Unpaid Parental Leave, Time off for Dependents
• Training and development, including coaching and mentoring
• Health and wellbeing support - Employee Assistance Programme, Menopause Pledge, Mental Health First Aiders and access to a variety of staff networks
• Veteran-friendly employer with the Armed Forces Covenant
• Retail discounts and savings through the Southampton City Council benefits platform
• Discounted memberships at local sports and fitness centres
• Sustainable travel benefits - low emission car scheme, cycle to work, season ticket loans
• Employee volunteering scheme with 2 paid days leave to volunteer

For further information on our benefits package please visit: Employee benefits (southampton.gov.uk)

If you feel you have the necessary background, experience, and skills to undertake this role we would like to hear from you.

Contact details for informal discussion:

For further information and details regarding the Sustainable Transport Officer role please contact Amber Williams (Sustainable Transport Project Lead) at amber.williams@southampton.gov.uk or on 023 8083 3335.

Recruitment contact details:

Email: recruitment@southampton.gov.uk
Tel: 023 8083 4033

For more information about SCC please visit Southampton City Council

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• Sustainable Travel Officer - Job Description.pdf