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Student Travel Behaviour Investigator

Job details
Posting date:	24 July 2024
Salary:	£32,938 to £38,751 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 August 2024
Location:	Chelmsford, Essex, cm1 1lx
Company:	Essex County Council
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	req17534_1721834354

Summary

Fixed Term, Full Time

£32,938 to £38,751 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Anywhere worker

Closing Date: 8th August 2024

The Opportunity

Essex is responsible for ensuring that children and young people out of education or at risk of missing out on education have access to suitable alternative high quality education provision. This provision must offer bespoke solutions to mitigate the risk around time spent out of education and ensure appropriate placements are managed.

This role is responsible for leading the development of projects to improve antisocial behaviour for the public and home to school transport throughout Essex. The focus will be to reduce antisocial behaviour whilst travelling to and from schools whether that is provided by school transport contracts or public transport. Addressing student behaviour and safeguarding will require excellent communication and experience of handling sensitive issues. Working collaboratively with schools to provide solutions to issues affecting commissioned transport services.

This is a busy high profile role responsible for promoting educational initiatives and delivering projects in budget, to reduce antisocial behaviour when travelling to and from school to home working with internal and external partners to achieve outcomes and promote safeguarding.

Accountabilities

· Responsible for ensuring projects meet agreed objectives whilst delivering outcomes that are value for money and do not exceed the yearly spend agreed.

· Contributes in responding to challenging and sensitive communication on a daily basis with schools, parents and other partners and influence outcomes by effective communication ensuring a high level of care.

· Provides regular reports to monitor budgets and advises both Commissioners and funding partners to ensure regular updates on performance.

· Ensures maintenance of accurate records of specific student behaviour issues and appeals ensuring able to address local issues and recommend appropriate action.

· Supports schools and parents in attending meetings and delivering presentations to ensure maintaining a dialogue with schools, parents and transport providers to deliver improvements in anti-social behaviour across Essex.

· Recommend student behaviour projects to ensure excellent relationships with internal and external partners, the public, the media and suppliers

· Work collaboratively with partners to ensure the best overall outcome for the people of Essex, whilst protecting ECC's interests by ensuring compliance with all external and internal regulations.

· Engage with appropriate stakeholders to define business requirements and achieve quality, timely and value for money services, meeting customer standards and ensuring consistent adherence to both designed outcomes and agreed service levels.

· Work collaboratively with partners to plan, implement and deliver projects ensuring able to improve antisocial behaviour which impact on ECC contracts in a customer focused way.

· Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The Experience You Will Bring

· Educated to RFQ level 6 (degree level) or equivalent by experience.

· Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area.

· Evidence of project management and delivering multi agency projects within budget

· Excellent negotiation and influencing skills with ability to persuade stakeholders.

· Evidence of successfully delivering outcomes in in a complex, customer facing environment

· Excellent written and verbal communications skills and the ability to present to large audiences.

· Significant experience within a transport and/or Safeguarding environment.

· Experience of working in a political environment, skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives and taking a cross organisational perspective.

To read more about us please visit: Education

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England's oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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