Principal Transport Planner

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Part time
Location: Hereford
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Job offered by: Hoople
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About The Role Contract: Permanent Salary: HC10 £44,711 - £48,710 Hours: 37 Location: Hereford Closing Date: 31/01/2025

Would you like to take your transport career to the next level, and be the driving force for the next chapter in Herefordshire’s future? You could be taking forward our plans to deliver the very best for our residents and businesses, enabling a rapid leap forward in connectivity and sustainability across a large, predominantly rural, ambitious Local Authority. The role of Principal Transport Planner asks you to take on some of our great strategic challenges – the Local Transport Plan, Active Travel, County-wide engagement, policy horizon scanning, infrastructure strategy – and bring your skills, expertise and tenacious manner to building the very best transport networks, be it public transport, walking, cycling and wheeling, or those to support housing and economic growth. If you are enthusiastic about building your career and building a new era of transport then this could be the role for you. The ultimate goal of the Transport planning team is to deliver better experiences for passengers, residents and businesses, better connectivity both inward and outward to our neighbours, region and nations and ultimately a better place to live. Our goal is to ensure transport is a focus for all relevant plans from a wide range of council departments, for example the Local Plan, Climate Change mitigation plan, Public Health, Care leavers plan, and so on. You will need to build alliances and relationships across the whole council, and with the many external agencies we work with. You need to bring quick answers and strong responses to This is a key role taking a leading position in what and how we deliver connectivity, and how we make intelligent investment decisions for DfT funding streams.

Benefits of working for Herefordshire Council: A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes: Pension

Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS) Generous Annual Leave:

31 days’ annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum Flexible working:

flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working Employee Assistance Programme:

24/7 access to support and counselling Payment of

professional membership fees Pick your perks

– our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts. We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered. The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:

Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident” scheme; Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are an Armed Forces Veteran or Reservist. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant; Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care. Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details of this role. To apply, please submit your CV and complete the supporting statement within the application form, referring to the job description & person specification, detailing how you meet the specific requirements of the role. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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