Senior Transport Planner - Healthy Routes

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

About Camden

London Borough of Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive. We’re ambitious for our borough and committed to tackling the climate emergency, improving air quality and creating safer, healthier streets for everyone. Our Safe and Healthy Streets team at Camden is at the forefront of Healthy Streets based project delivery and in the recent Healthy Streets Scorecard Camden was the fourth placed borough overall.

About the role

As a Senior Transport Planner, you will play a key role in delivering the ambitious goals of the Camden Transport Strategy by project managing the development and implementation of multiple small to medium-sized Healthy Routes projects across Camden, as part of the Council’s Healthy Streets programme. Healthy Routes schemes include strategic cycle and bus corridors, upgrades to the Borough’s primary and secondary cycle route network (including segregated cycle infrastructure on main roads), alongside pedestrian, cycling, road safety and public realm improvements on key high streets and residential streets. The role also includes supporting the delivery of bus priority measures, such as new and improved bus lanes and corridors. You will be responsible for taking projects from feasibility through to delivery, including community engagement, consultation, report writing, decision-making and monitoring. You will also support Principal officers with high-quality programme and project management input on larger and more complex schemes.

For examples of some of the types of schemes you could be working in this role, please see the following schemes Camden is currently engaging, consulting or constructing:

• Upper Woburn Place bus priority – Status: Consultation complete
• Haverstock Hill – Status: Under construction
• Shaftesbury Avenue – Status: Near construction
• Camden Town area bus priority – Status: Near completion
• Cross Camden Cycleway – Status: Feasibility

In this role, you will work closely with colleagues across the Council, such as Planning, Place and Design, Greenspaces, Regeneration, Sustainability and Inclusive Economy, as well as Transport for London, the Greater London Authority and local communities, helping to deliver projects that support wider objectives such as tackling the climate emergency, improving air quality and creating vibrant public spaces.

About You

To be successful in securing this role you will have strong experience of successful project/programme management and delivery of Healthy Streets projects, including leading or contributing to elements of complex cycle and bus schemes. You will also have a strong understanding and experience of the policy and statutory framework within which Healthy Streets, transport planning and related activities operate. You will be a proactive and forward-thinking experienced project manager, capable of successfully managing initiatives, often overlapping with one another, both on time and to budget. You will be able to demonstrate effective partnership working and the ability to develop strong stakeholder relations, including liaising with all relevant external organisations such as Transport for London, Greater London Authority, developers, other boroughs and external funders. To ensure success in this role, you will need to have a strong understanding and appreciation of issues specifically around streetscape design, accessibility, and sustainability. You will be able to help prepare and write high-quality papers and reports for Council Committees, public meetings, and other bodies such as public inquiries, supporting senior officers as required. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to effectively help support and oversee the work of more junior members of a team and consultants.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of the policy and statutory framework – locally, regionally and nationally – within which the Healthy Streets, transport planning and related activities operate
• Skill and experience in project management – you will be capable of delivering Healthy Streets transport infrastructure projects on time and to budget
• Experience and understanding of Healthy Streets and strategic transport planning projects, including some experience of working in a team on projects of significant size, value and complexity
• Appreciation of key streetscape design issues and challenges, including accessibility and sustainability
• Good partnership working skills, and the ability to develop effective stakeholder relations on transport matters, including liaising and negotiating with relevant external organisations
• Capacity to communicate clearly and sensitively as part of community engagement activities and with elected members, and understanding of inclusive community engagement
• Ability to effectively help support and oversee the workload of more junior members of a team and/or consultants, and an understanding of how consultants in the industry operate
• Strong analytical and report writing skills
• Good presenting skills
• Demonstrates initiative and a proactive, forward-thinking approach to carrying out work
• Good political awareness and sensitivity
• Good level of inter-personal skills
• Understanding of corporate policies and strategies
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Transport Planning/Project Management

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pension scheme.

Inclusion and Belonging

At Camden, we want every colleague to feel they belong and can thrive. We welcome applications from all parts of our community, and particularly encourage people from Black, Asian and Other Ethnic Heritage communities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled and neurodiverse people, survivors of domestic abuse, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds or with care experience. We know that different voices and perspectives make us stronger, and we are committed to providing the support, adjustments and flexibility people need to succeed.

Asking for Adjustments

At Camden, we are committed to making our recruitment process barrier-free and accessible for everyone. If you need us to do something differently during the application, interview or assessment process, just let us know and we will support you. This could include providing information in an alternative format, extra time in assessments, or adjustments for disabled, neurodiverse or long-term health conditions.