Senior Public Transport Officer

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Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

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Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced public transport professional to become our Senior Public Transport Officer. Sitting within the Highways & Transport service of our Place & Economy directorate, the role forms part of our Transport Strategy team. Working with our transport planning and sustainable transport officers, you will play a key role in developing and implementing plans to improve bus services for North Northamptonshire’s residents, including expanded services provision in our rural areas. The role is offered on full-time basis on a two-year fixed term and may involve line-management

What will you be doing?

As part of the public transport team, you will be play a key role in delivering our statutory duties and other priorities for public transport. You will help to deliver an improved bus network for North Northamptonshire by leading on specific elements of the delivery of our Enhanced Partnership with local bus operators, helping to update our annual Bus Service Improvement Plan and contributing to the development of North Northamptonshire’s first Local Transport Plan. You will review commercial bus service registrations and prepare service specifications and contract documents for tendered services. You will manage the issuing of concessionary bus passes and our Bus Real Time Passenger Information system and maintain the relationship with community transport operators. You will comment on planning applications for new developments from a public transport perspective, seeking appropriate public transport improvements.  

About you

Educated to degree level or equivalent, you will have a good knowledge of the bus industry from the local government perspective and of the statutory role of local authorities relating to bus services. Experience of commercial registrations, service tendering and responding to planning applications will be desirable as will knowledge of the rail industry. 

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)