Job Description
Place
Transport Officer – Engagement Behaviour Change
Waverley Court
Salary: £37,626 - £44,257
Hours: 36 per week
Would you like join Edinburgh’s Active Travel Team, to help develop and deliver the city’s ambitious programme of investment in walking, wheeling, cycling and street improvements.
We are looking for someone to lead on active travel consultation, engagement and behaviour change. and street design guidance projects
Depending on your skills and abilities, there may also be the opportunity to work on the Edinburgh Street Design Guidance, strategy development, monitoring and active travel infrastructure projects.
Our investment programme is a major component of Edinburgh’s City Mobility Plan 2021-2030. This aims to transform urban travel to deliver a healthier, thriving, fairer and compact capital city, and a higher quality of life for all residents, as we transition to a zero-carbon future.
The capital projects involved are mainly on-street, including transformation of city centre streets, cycle tracks on suburban roads and reconfiguring junctions, but also include some new structures and associated landscaping on off-street routes. We also undertake strategic, monitoring and behaviour-change work.
You should have:
* a relevant degree and solid experience in community engagement and behaviour change, ideally within active travel,
* knowledge of the issues, opportunities and problems associated with delivering urban active travel and behaviour change;
* a track record in delivering projects/programme management
Further information is provided in the attached Person Specification and Job Description.
The team undertakes hybrid working, with the office base being the Council’s main office at Waverley Court, next to Waverley Station.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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