Senior Transport Planner

Description:

JOB TITLE: Senior Transport Planner

LOCATION: Wandsworth / Twickenham (South west London) - Hybrid working

PAY RATE: £18.34 paye / £24.87 umbrella Per Hour

DURATION/HOURS: 3 months (possible extension)/ Mon-Fri 36 hours

START DATE: ASAP

Role purpose:

To deliver high quality, robust and transparent decision making within tight time frames on transportation matters to ensure that the Planning and Transport Division is recognised as delivering an excellent service for all of our customers. The Senior Transport Planner will act as a professional expert in a team of Transport professionals in providing definitive professional advice for the council, creating and applying transport policy and strategy and best practice and delivering successful planning outcomes. The scope of work will include one or more of day-to-day liaison with TfL on the Local Implementation Plan, progression of major transportation projects/ initiatives, travel awareness initiatives and provision of expert transportation and traffic and highway engineering advice into the development management system. To coach and supervise junior planning officers to help them acquire the skills and knowledge so that they can become self-reliant in dealing with technical and people issues as required.

Specific duties & responsibilities:

To work independently and take personal responsibility for a full range of transport strategy work including the development and review of specialist transport strategy areas, to include public transport initiatives, travel awareness, including walking and cycling and major infrastructure schemes, working to identifiable deadlines in a manner that is consistent with meeting corporate targets and objectives.
To liaise with TfL on the preparation of the local Implementation Plan and the annual funding submission.
To provide pre-application advice, the input of transport strategy and traffic engineering advice to complex and high-profile planning applications, working to identifiable deadlines in a manner that is consistent with meeting corporate targets and objectives.
To work independently to assess, engage and set out clear and robust transport strategy formulation in an accurate, well written officer report based on an up-to-date and relevant evidence base.
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of national and regional policy and relevant legislation and to take a proactive approach to relevant changes in legislation and updating junior staff on those changes.
To ensure that you meet service-wide and corporate performance indicators, targets and customer service standards for the full range of your own workload and also any work of junior officers that you are supervising.
To represent the Team/Department/Council at meetings (including evening meetings) both within the Council and outside bodies including public meetings on matters relevant to the Planning Service.

Knowledge, skills & experience:

Comprehensive knowledge and sound understanding of national, regional and local transport strategy and associated legislative requirements and policy guidance.
Experience in local government transport strategy work including preparation of Local Implementation Plan and transport strategy documents or equivalents.
Experience of managing, training and motivating staff on a day-to-day basis to secure and maintain improvements in service delivery.
Clear understanding of IT systems generally including Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Objective (desirable).
Effective report writing skills including preparation of transport strategy documents, committee reports, development plan examination and planning appeal statements or equivalents.
A degree in transport or planning or other appropriate professional qualification and a member of an appropriate professional body or eligible for membership or willingness to become a member.

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