Transport Planning Expert

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, 2 Year FTC
Salary: PO8 £61,980 – £65,476 per annum
Interview Date: w/c 28th April 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 13th April 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Transport and Travel, you will be a dynamic and motivated individual who will oversee all legal agreements for the Transport Planning team and managing legal case work. You will be responsible for advising, supporting, developing, and mentoring staff including management support. You will also manage the commissioning and drafting of Transport Studies/Strategies/Assessments, Public Rights of Way Definitive Map. As well as supporting the Head of Transport and Travel to actively engage in the monitoring, reporting and delivery of performance outcomes.

About you

You will work within a small team of motivated officers, using your leadership skills and expert knowledge of the legal framework and to support the team. The team consist of Transport Policy Planners, Transport Development Planners and Active Travel Officers and has a very varied and dynamic workload. The Transport and Travel Team plays a key role in unlocking the boroughs regeneration aspirations working across all internal and external stakeholders to deliver a range of Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Transport Projects.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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