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Senior Transport Planner - Spatial & Transport Planning

Posting date:	08 June 2024
Salary:	£20.31 per hour
Additional salary information:	per hour PAYE
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 July 2024
Location:	WANDSWORTH, London, SW18 2PU
Company:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	Richmond & Wandsworth 7367-1

Summary

What's involved with this role:

Interim Senior Transport Planner - Spatial & Transport Planning

Reference no: Richmond & Wandsworth 7367-1

Pay rate: £20.31 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 3 months

City: WANDSWORTH, London

Hybrid working

Basic DBS required for this role

A Senior Transport Planner is required 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 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 they can become self-reliant in dealing with technical and people issues as required.

Key responsibilities:

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.
Liaise with TfL on the preparation of the local Implementation Plan and the annual funding submission.
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.
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.
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.
Be proactive in identifying issues and proposing improvements and creative solutions within the context of current and future service requirements in order to continually deliver high quality, customer focused planning services to managers and our full range of customers.
Ensure that all transport strategy formulation is undertaken with due regard to the Councils’ corporate objectives.
Implement self-contained projects or components of larger projects in order to deliver organisational objectives as well as enabling agreed changes in planning practice and processes to take place, taking personal responsibility for detailed project management as required.
Coach and facilitate the acquisition of skills and knowledge in others so that they are better equipped to be self-reliant in dealing with technical and people issues. Provide advice and guidance in response to planning best practice, procedure or policy within a legal/organisational policy framework.
Lead on the preparation of specialist evidence in respect of appeals including presenting evidence at Public Inquiries, Hearings and written representations.



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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.


Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

Degree in planning or transport or related subject, or other appropriate professional qualification + 2 years’ experience.
Member of an appropriate professional body or eligible for membership or willingness to become a member.



Experience:

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.
Proven experience of using initiative to identify innovative solutions to problem solving and demonstrating a 'can-do' attitude to improvements in service delivery.



Knowledge:

Comprehensive knowledge and sound understanding of national, regional and local transport strategy and associated legislative requirements and policy guidance.



Skills & Abilities:

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.
Articulate in written and oral communication skills with particular reference to report and letter writing, public speaking, presentation skills and communicating with Members, the public, staff and other professionals
Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and present key facts including policy implications in the preparation of reports, policy formulation and other material.
Ability to prepare briefs for and select, control and monitor consultants.
Ability to lead on designated projects with minimum supervision and to deputise for the Principal Transport Planner in their absence.
Able to work effectively to meet challenging deadlines and manage competing and changing priorities. Able to work as part of a team taking into account the needs of other Council Departments and with a willingness and ability to impart knowledge to other staff.
Ability to assist in identifying need for change and to introduce and manage changes designed to improve service delivery.



***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.



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Job Ref: Richmond & Wandsworth 7367-1


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

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