Head of Road Infrastructure Technology
| Posting date: | 15 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £57,515 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 October 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 430549/1 |
Summary
Have you managed R&D programs, including specifying, procuring, and overseeing external consultancies and agencies?
Can you demonstrate technical leadership capabilities?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
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 Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers
The Head of Road Infrastructure Technology is responsible for shaping and driving government activity around the technologies used in today’s road networks, as well as preparing for future needs, for example connected and autonomous vehicles.
The successful post holder will lead the development and delivery of national vehicle and data strategies, particularly in areas including connected service definition and architecture.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Leading significant capital funded programmes. Managing and delivering programmes of activity internally and managing the provision of grant funding to external bodies for the development of connected and data services.
- Managing programmes of research and specifying, procuring and managing the work of external consultancies and agencies. Leading finance and reporting of activities within Departmental research programmes.
- Leading European and international activities including representing UK interests at world and European Intelligent Transport Systems Congresses.
- Leading international technical and standards alignment and managing UK involvement in ERTICO, the European ITS Body, and alignment of ITS Activities within the UK through management of the STREETWISE Group.
- Managing and developing the Transport Technology Forum (TTF), a key stakeholder forum for promoting roads based Manage TTF research programme and conferences, website, forums and specialist technical groups.
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 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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