Head of Cross-Modal Modelling
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 01 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £67,313 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leeds |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 425229/2 |
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Can you lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver analysis to resolve complex, high profile and contentious questions?
Would you like to lead and deliver on our vision to achieve a step-change in our analytical capability and collaborative opportunities by producing a suite of quick, automated and detailed tools that allow DfT to plan cross-modally and better fulfil its objectives of integrated transport that meets the needs of people?
If so, we’d love to hear from you.
DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DfT: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers
DfT places a very heavy emphasis on analysis in its decisions. This new and exciting role will play a critical part in this. The role is to lead a new team in the Transport Appraisal and Strategic Modelling Division (TASM) focused on expanding our cross-modal modelling capabilities and embedding them into how the Department thinks about transport policy-making across all modes. The challenge will be to move to a more integrated, collaborative way of working with transport models across the DfT, moving away from thinking about modes of transport separately to using analytical models to help think more across portfolios.
TASM is a friendly analysis team sitting at the heart of the Department’s analytical community in the Analysis Directorate. The Cross-Modal Modelling team (CMM) sits within TASM alongside three other Grade 6-led analytical teams. CMM will consist of four Grade 7 analysts, supported by two junior analysts. The wider TASM division, on formation of CMM, will consist of over thirty multidisciplinary analysts across transport modelling, economics, operational research and data science.
You will lead an influential and inclusive team to ensure that DfT’s decisions are underpinned by relevant, trusted and robust analysis. You will do this by expanding our analytical capability significantly. Given the new nature of this team and its purpose, as its leader, this represents an exciting, challenging and rare opportunity to make your own mark by creating a sea change in how transport and economic modelling is used to impact decision-making in a highly influential way.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Developing our capability in agent-based activity-based models, expanding the range of policies we can model, including multi-modal and integrated journeys;
- Developing our capability on freight analysis, developing a freight modelling and data framework to better understand freight investments and to inform decarbonisation, economic growth and network resilience;
- Supporting the growth agenda by developing our economic modelling capability, producing new tools for assessing economic and land use impacts of major projects and strategic and transformational programmes;
- Coordinating the development of cross-modal modelling in general across TASM and DfT by exploring adaption of our current analytical tools and capability and producing quicker and more responsive modelling to provide a better quality of service to support policy-makers;
- Contributing to the development of guidance on modelling within our Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG), which is used across the sector to support decision-making on scheme appraisals and within devolved authorities;
- Being an advocate for modelling, communicating TASM’s work across DfT and bolstering the impact and influence of analysis at all levels.
You will oversee several project contracts to deliver detailed modelling tools. You may need to complete contract management training if you have not already done so.
This role is an exciting opportunity to gain substantial experience in leading a team in a fresh new area, setting the direction of the Department’s modelling development. As a leader, you’ll inspire innovation, champion inclusivity, and foster external engagement and collaboration across the team and wider analytical community.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the attatched role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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