Transport Strategy Officer

Are you excited by a unique opportunity to help drive forward Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) ambitious agenda, to support the delivery of a sustainable, healthy and efficient transport network through our work in delivering the ambitions set out in the draft Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2050?

City regions like Greater Manchester face big transport challenges. We need to:

• Support economic growth by making sure transport is wellconnected to new development, especially in key Growth Locations.
• Encourage cleaner, more sustainable travel to reduce the environmental impact of how people move around.
• Provide fair and accessible transport for everyone, ensuring all communities have good connections and can get to the places they need.

Your Role

We are recruiting for a Transport Strategy Officer to join our team. Work will include:

• Strategy and policy writing to support the ongoing development of the GM Transport Strategy 2050 and Delivery Plan.
• Evidence and monitoring reporting the outputs and outcomes of the transport strategy and delivery plan.
• Land use planning influence land use planning decisions to ensure alignment with strategic objectives set out in LTP, GMS & PfE.
• Developer engagement – influence and improve developer approaches to transport in new development, masterplanning and design.
• Growth Locations – support development of Growth Locations ensuring transport infrastructure unlocks good growth.

For full details, please see the Job Profile below.

Who are we?

In this role, you’ll join a friendly, multidisciplinary team working at the heart of Greater Manchester’s people and place agenda. The Strategic Planning team leads the development and coordination of the GM Transport Strategy 2050 and its supporting plans, providing a longterm, evidenceled framework for investment and decisionmaking to help deliver an inclusive, sustainable and wellconnected city region.

Working closely with partners, the team integrates transport strategy with growth locations, regeneration, land use planning and investment priorities across the region. This includes defining and developing transport investment priorities through early development of strategic streets and bus schemes, supporting a longterm investment pipeline that balances the role of our streets and helps sustain, grow and transform the network.

Across the team, we apply placemaking principles to shape highquality, peoplecentred environments, ensuring transport strategy is grounded in the real experience of our streets, neighbourhoods and public spaces. We work collaboratively across Greater Manchester and engage at panNorthern and national levels to influence policy, champion innovation and help deliver a network that works for everyone.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You’ll bring wideranging knowledge of contemporary transport strategy, land use planning and placemaking, with the ability to explore complex information and turn it into clear, meaningful insights. You’ll be confident analysing data, identifying what matters, and communicating this effectively to support informed decisionmaking and the scoping, delivery and communication of transport projects that contribute to Greater Manchester’s place, transport and environmental ambitions.

You’ll be an adaptable and confident communicator, able to build positive working relationships and tailor messages for different audiences. Whether preparing clear, wellstructured reports or working facetoface with partners, you’ll make technical topics accessible and relevant. You’ll also be organised and comfortable managing competing priorities, enjoying collaborative working within established teams to deliver shared objectives.

You’ll have proven experience of working with multiple stakeholders and developing effective relationships with key partners, including local government, consultants, developers, and wider business and public sector networks, helping to ensure joinedup, effective delivery across the city region.

What we can offer you

This role is a permanent contract in a career graded role, with a salary of £43,210 – £56,195 depending on skills and experience.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What’s next?

To apply please submit your CV and complete your application ensuring that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on your CV. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

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Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

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