Transport Planner in Birmingham

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for passionate and enthusiastic individuals to join Birmingham City Council’s Transport Planning Service and play a key role in shaping the future of transport in the city. Birmingham is seeing billions of pounds of investment in major developments and strategic infrastructure across the West Midlands. At the same time, the Council is working at pace to deliver the ambitious Birmingham Transport Plan, transforming the city’s transport system to support inclusive growth, reduce carbon emissions, and adapt to climate change.

As a Transport Planner, you will contribute to the development and delivery of transport policy, strategy, programmes, and projects that support sustainable movement across the city. The role offers the opportunity to work on a wide range of initiatives, from local schemes to city-scale programmes, working with local partners, schools, and community groups to support safer, healthier and more sustainable journeys.

Our ideal candidates will have some experience (paid or voluntary) in transport planning or a related field and a strong interest in sustainable transport and place-based planning. You may have an undergraduate degree in a subject such as Geography, Environmental Science, Spatial Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Health, or Education, or equivalent skills and experience gained elsewhere.

We are looking for talented individuals to contribute to specialist sub-teams with areas of focus including school travel planning, road harm reduction, improving air quality and improving sustainable travel – come and join the team supporting people on this journey!

Please upload an up-to-date CV and Supporting Statement via the attachments part of your application. The Supporting Statement should outline how you meet the criteria for the role through your personal qualities, skills and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post. Note the Personal Statement should be no more than 1500 words. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Personal Statement attached.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people. We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken. Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed. Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our citizens and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Sponsorship is not available for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK that does not require employer sponsorship for the duration of the appointment.