Sustainable transport planner

It is an exciting time to be working in Hackney’s StreetScene team. The team is proud to be working on an innovative and ambitious multi-million pound three year local implementation plan (LIP) to take the borough closer to its Climate Action Plan transport goals for 2030. We are now seeking a Sustainable Transport Planner to assist in managing and progressing the Liveable Neighbourhood programme element of the LIP across its next two years.

The successful candidate will be responsible for working alongside engineers, transport planners and senior stakeholders and on occasion with elected members. Specifically, the role will primarily involve project managing the continuation of two area-based, healthy street schemes through consultation and implementation as part of our borough-wide Liveable Neighbourhood Programme; and provide project support to the Liveable Neighbourhood programme manager.

The role will include collating and assessing a wide range of opportunities for change including through the development and management of consultation and engagement material and events and ensuring that evidence is clearly set out and analysed to inform decisions. We are seeking candidates with the skill set to enable a collaborative working environment.

Project support to the programme manager will include supporting the delivery of a diverse range of projects across the borough including traffic management interventions, healthy street improvements, gateways across main roads, cycle network development, exemption policy development, continual assessments of equality impacts and identifying opportunities to align approaches with other work areas in the team.

The successful candidate will, naturally, have good and effective communication and interpersonal skills. Strategic thinking and decision making will be important elements of this role as well as providing leadership on project elements you are responsible for.

You should be able to write reports and consultation documents in a clear and concise style ready for use; comfortable engaging with elected officials, even occasionally outside of normal hours; and able to liaise across disciplines and at all levels. Analysis skills should ensure, at the very least, familiarity with things such as the PIVOT and LOOKUP elements of Excel. Knowledge of GIS will be a considerable benefit.

With this multi-stakeholder programme, the successful candidate will need to be well organised, with good relevant experience of project management; and well able to assimilate and help improve schedules and budgets.

At Hackney Council we welcome disabled people or those with health conditions to apply for roles, and for this role encourage applications from people who consider that they meet some but not necessarily all of the requirements. Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under represented in our workforce.