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Borders Transport Modeller

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Posting date: 24 May 2024
Salary: £40,808 per year
Additional salary information: £40,808 (National) £44,811 (London)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 June 2024
Location: Birmingham
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 354363/1

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Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Have you got experience in the development or application of transport models?

Do you enjoy working at pace on high profile issues alongside a range of senior and cross-departmental stakeholders?

Can you communicate complex information to technical and non-technical audiences?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

The Borders Analysis Team delivers analysis to shape decision making at the UK border. The team uses data and analysis to underpin operational decisions during periods of disruption and build the evidence base to inform future border policy.

You will be responsible for the transport modelling that underpins ministerial decisions on a long-term solution for traffic caused by disruption at the Kent border. Specifically, you will advise on how to use transport modelling to understand the impacts of combined investment in new technology and sites to hold lorries within Kent to reduce the need to queue HGVs on the strategic road network.

You will develop and maintain a wide policy and analyst network. Within DfT, you will support the Borders policy division and work closely with analysts within the Aviation, Maritime and Borders Analysis Division. Across Whitehall, you will collaborate with departments involved in border policy, such as Cabinet Office and Home Office. You will also work closely with external stakeholders such as Kent County Council, National Highways, and consultants.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

    You will primarily be responsible for providing transport modeller advice on:

    • Kent Resilience Strategy, a new approach to HGV freight traffic management in Kent. This strategy is still under development, but will likely comprise a combination of investment in physical sites to hold HGVs during times of border disruption combined with the development of traffic management technology.

    You will develop novel modelling approaches to enhance and complement tried and tested highway modelling. The work will involve engaging and communicating with Kent County Council, National Highways, consultants, Port of Dover, Eurotunnel, arm’s length bodies, and DfT roads modellers to develop modelling methodologies to understand the current and future scenarios. The transport modelling will be used to inform economic appraisal to bid for HMT funding and develop DfT business cases.

    Due to the evolving nature of the work, you will be expected to work flexibly, responding to shifting priorities at the border. You may be required to input on:

    • Medium-Term Border Changes: Analysis on the impact of the introduction of border changes on local and national transport networks. In particular, the impact of the new EU Entry/Exit System, to be introduced in October.
    • Near-Term Border Disruption: Supporting urgent response work relating to situations at the border, including preparing for anticipated events (e.g. known peak travel periods), wider ongoing situations (e.g. Ukraine), or unexpected events that affect international travel.

    For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

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