Manchester
Full Time
£39,360 - £51,576
Permanent
Expires 23/12/2024
About the Role
Would you enjoy the challenge of turning policies and strategies into actionable plans and deliverable schemes to put new rapid transit infrastructure and services on the map for Greater Manchester?
Are you a clear thinker who can bring people along and get things done?
If so, join us and shape an ambitious future for mass transit in our city-region.
Your Role
As a Strategic Development Manager in the Rapid Transit Development department of our Transport Strategy directorate, you will manage the early-stage development of new schemes for the Greater Manchester rapid transit system (e.g. busways, trams, tram-trains and underground metro). It is a complex but exciting multi-disciplinary environment, with a significant development funding allocation as part of our current City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement.
Working as part of a team typically comprising a Lead Strategic Development Manager, a small number of Senior Strategic Development Managers and a number of Strategic Development Managers and Assistant Strategic Development Managers (complemented by contractor resource and consultancy support procured as needed) to meet committed milestones and budgets, you will:
1. Ensure schemes are underpinned by sound strategic planning and have robust transport business cases including suitable designs, relevant approvals & consents, sufficient funding & financing, and appropriate commercial & management arrangements.
2. Shape schemes up to a point of handover to delivery teams for execution to time, cost and quality and sponsor them through to ensure benefits are realised.
3. Build strong and effective relationships to secure necessary input and support for schemes.
4. Participate in continuous improvement and contribute to a positive, supportive team culture that results in high performance.
At this time, we wish to recruit four Strategic Development Managers to cover the following specific areas:
1. New Stops & Stop Improvements including close liaison with local authorities, developers and a range of other stakeholders where new rapid transit stops are needed to serve new developments.
2. Route Development proposals for new rapid transit lines and extensions (metro, tram, tram-train and busway) including prioritisation, optioneering, business case development and working with local authorities and developers to protect longer-term routes for future realisation.
3. Operational Development optimising the existing rapid transit network, including working with forecasting colleagues on future needs, custodianship of our operational models, and progression of business cases for capacity and speed enhancements.
4. Fleet, Depots and Tram-Train bringing forward the next generation of vehicles for our Metrolink network with tram-train capability, and developing the tram-train ‘pathfinder’ pilot in GM to unlock future tram-train schemes.
This is a career-graded position where you will develop your skills in the early-stage development of transport schemes, in a fast-paced but supportive environment that carries a high degree of political and public interest. The role provides excellent learning and personal development opportunities that includes progress towards professional accreditation and a structured career path.
Who are we?
Rapid Transit Development is a service area within TfGM’s Transport Strategy Directorate. We lead on the early-stage development of rapid transit projects and programmes on behalf of Greater Manchester, by taking policies and strategies and developing them into actionable plans and deliverable schemes. We break our work into three broad areas, each with a Lead Strategic Development Manager:
1. Interchanges, Stops and Hubs
2. New Lines and Extensions (inc. Route and Operational Development)
3. Fleet, Depots and Tram-Train
Greater Manchester is entering a new phase of devolution. With this comes exciting new opportunities for growth, powered by the delivery of joined-up London-style transport system. This role is a unique opportunity to make a real difference to the residents, businesses and visitors who use Greater Manchester’s rapid transit system on a daily basis.
What you’ll bring
You will have experience at the front end of the lifecycle (such as feasibility studies, Strategic Outline Cases, and Outline Business Cases). Experience of the promotion of statutory powers (for example Transport and Works Act Orders, Highways Act Orders, Development Consent Orders, or Hybrid Bill) is desirable but not essential. A strong team player (with an equal ability to work effectively on your own initiative and without close supervision), you will have a track record of building productive working relationships and partnerships with a variety of technical, non-technical and public stakeholders. It is also important that you have a creative flair in your approach to developing solutions, and an ability to communicate these solutions.
Underpinning this, you will have a good knowledge of urban transit modes and their interfaces with local and national government policies and strategies. You will be educated to degree level and working towards a relevant professional qualification or alternatively be able to demonstrate significant, highly relevant, equivalent experience.
What we can offer you
The role is a permanent position, working in a team with a high-profile agenda of developing new lines and extensions for the Greater Manchester rapid transit system. You’ll be working as part of a supportive service area and directorate, across TfGM, and with wider partners.
Our benefits include:
1. A salary of £39,360 £51,576 per annum depending on skills and experience
2. 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
3. Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
4. Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
5. Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
6. Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
7. We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
What's next?
To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications. Shortlisting of applicants will be undertaken in the week commencing 6th January 2025, with interviews scheduled for the weeks commencing the 13th and 20th January 2025.
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