Assistant Transport Project Officer
Posted a week ago by London Borough of Hounslow
Assistant Transport Project Officer x 2
Salary: £29,583 – £ 36,567 Grade: Sc5 – SO1 (Career Grade)
Hours per Week: 36
Nature of Employment: Permanent
DBS Required: None
Location: Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3EB.
About Us at Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
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About the Role
To assist with the development, implementation and evaluation of transport projects as delegated to the postholder by the Senior Project Officer.
Working as part of multi-disciplinary project teams, you’ll collaborate with colleagues across the directorate to ensure our services are fully integrated and always put our communities first. Your role will also involve coming up with innovative ways to tackle a range of local issues.
To work effectively as part of the Council’s Capital Projects & Network Management team, delivering corporate objectives through the work of the department.
To lead on undertaking all necessary administration (record keeping and stakeholder communications), reporting (oral and written to internal and external stakeholders), monitoring & evaluation (including data analysis and presentation) of the projects allocated to the post holder.
To maintain at all times accurate project management and financial records required by the Council and other funding bodies for audit purposes. To comply with the Council’s financial standing orders and tenders and procurement regulations and facilitate all internal and external approvals necessary
to deliver the allocated projects. To support the Team Leader as required in presenting such projects to senior management and Councillors.
To assist with building and maintaining good working relationships with other relevant Council departments and officers, TfL, NHS Hounslow, Local Strategic Partnership, schools, employers, faith groups, and other community groups and to raise the profile of sustainable transport locally. This will include working effectively internally across council departments, and externally in partnerships, to identify opportunities for joint initiatives and new sources of funding.
About the Team You’ll Be Working In
The Capital Projects and Network Management team developed and deliver a wide range of highway improvements schemes, including major cycleways and junction improvements, pedestrian bridges, local safety schemes, school access management improvements, people friendly streets, cycle parking, and much more.
As well as highway improvements, the team is responsible for producing and advertising traffic management orders and temporary traffic orders, regulating a wide range of schemes across multiple service areas. Our network management duties include boroughwide accident investigation, organising traffic surveys, approving temporary road closures and traffic diversions, to ensure the network operates efficiently and safely. The team consists of 1 Team Leader, 6 Senior Engineers 2 Traffic Engineers and 4 Assistant Engineers.
About You
Ability to manage projects successfully with a good working understanding of practical risk, financial and performance management techniques.
Good written and verbal communications skills; an ability to summarise complex proposals into non-technical language and draft clear, concise and accurate reports and an ability to present information and projects for consideration clearly, concisely and persuasively.
Ability to research and process technical and/or legislative guidance, and use findings to inform recommendations or options for a given project or scheme, so that projects meet any relevant standards or requirements.
Good ICT skills, preferably experience of using Microsoft Applications, such as Outlook, Excel and Word, and CAD. GIS skills are desirable.
Qualifications:
- No essential qualifications are required for this role if all essential role profile provisions are met.
- Undergraduate degree is preferable.
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 29th July.
Closing date is 22nd July 2024.
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- R0006560
- Job ID:
- 221966508
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