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Job Description
Salary: £48,969
Location: York Way Depot, Freight Lane, London N1C 4BE
Hours per week: 36
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Sunday 26th January 2025 at 23:59
Interview: Monday 3rd - Thursday 6th February 2025
About Camden
Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We're home to the most important conversations happening today and we're making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind.
About the team
Camden Accessible Travel Solutions (CATS) is the Council's in-house transport service. It is based within York Way Depot, in King's Cross, London and sits within the Environment and Sustainability Directorate under Supporting Communities. The service is responsible for a wide range of transport-related services including the provision of accessible buses for children and adults, taxi bookings, fleet maintenance, an MOT service, driver training, fuel provision and manages a range of concessionary travel schemes.
What You'll Be Doing / How You'll Be Involved
The Camden Accessible Travel Solutions Team and Transport Strategy Team are seeking two Senior Policy and Projects Officers to support strategy, policy, improvement, and transformation in key areas of work across Supporting Communities.
The projects that you will be managing include decarbonisation of fleet vehicles, procurement, service reviews, and digitisation. This is an exciting role, where two days are never the same. You will lead and support on work with high levels of complexity and feel confident using data and insight to inform decision-making. You will be someone who is committed and passionate about making the Camden 2025 values a reality to enable everyone to have the chance to succeed.
All About You
To be considered for one of these exciting opportunities, the successful candidates will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to analyse data to present complex information and recommendations clearly to a range of audiences. Engaging communications and report-writing are key aspects of the role.
You will have previous experience of/interest in working in local government, and of leading strategies and change projects/programmes.
Additionally, you will have experience of one or more of the following areas:
* Strategic planning, development, implementation, and monitoring
* Change management and consultation skills
* Engagement and producing high-level reports
* Data, research, analysis & performance management
What We Offer
At Camden, you'll receive a host of benefits including:
* 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
* Local Government Pension Scheme
* Flexible working opportunities
* Interest-free loans
* Access to our incredible staff networks
* Career development and training
* Wellbeing support and activities
Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remain at the heart of everything we do.
Asking for Adjustments
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people, or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview, or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.
Anonymised Application - in keeping with Camden's commitment to inclusion, the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
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