What's involved with this role: Interim Service Manager - Transport Planning and Policy Reference no: Rotherham 0009 C502 / 1 Pay Rate: £387.58 per day PAYE 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 2 months City: Rotherham Hybrid - Expectation is for attendance in the office 60% of week As Service Manager for Transport Planning and Policy at the Council, you will play a key role in shaping both the local and South Yorkshire’s transport strategy, both in the short and long term. You will lead the delivery and planning of the Transport Capital Programme, focusing on initiatives for active travel, public transport, and behavioral change. This role requires an experienced, driven, and passionate Transport Planner who is proactive and committed to making a real impact in the sector. Key duties: Manage and develop policies and programmes to promote active travel, road safety, bus priority, and other transport initiatives across the borough. Lead the development of business cases for transport projects, ensuring compliance with WebTAG/HMT Greenbook assurance processes to secure funding. Formulate local transport policies and strategies, ensuring alignment with sub-regional and national policies. Provide transportation, traffic, highway, and parking input to the Development Management process, particularly for major sites and strategic areas. Maximise financial contributions from development to mitigate transport impacts and support long-term infrastructure needs, while increasing public transport and active travel through collaboration with key partners. Key requirements: Transport Planning, Highways or Traffic Engineering equivalent qualification or suitable experience in a transport, policy, project or planning related field. A strong understanding of local transport policy, funding frameworks, and legislative requirements Familiarity with transport appraisal techniques and behavioural measures to promote sustainable transport Have substantial management experience in transport planning and policy development, including policy formulation, strategic planning, and change management. Effective communication, influencing, problem-solving, project management, and team leadership skills Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please.