Service Manager for Travel Operations
37 Hours Per Week
County Hall
£56,225 to £62,575
What's in it for you:
Are you looking for a challenging role in a busy and vibrant team?
We can offer you a fulfilling and wide-ranging position in Dorset Travel, where you will contribute to making a real difference to the lives of Dorset’s children, young people, vulnerable adults and their families by providing their transport to education, training and activities.
This demanding role offers great variety and a diverse range of experiences, working in collaboration with teams across the Council and with schools and other agencies.
What you will be doing:
We are seeking an experienced person to lead the Travel Operations Service and shape its future in line with Corporate Plans and priorities and national legislation and guidance.
The Service Manager for Travel Operations is responsible for leading 4 teams:
1. Operations team, including home to school transport for mainstream children and transport to day care centres for vulnerable adults.
2. SEND Travel team, providing home to school transport for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
3. Public Transport team including overseeing the management of Dorset's core network of subsidised bus routes, the national concessionary fares scheme and bus stop infrastructure delivery.
4. Contracts team, including contract management and monitoring, KPI reporting, business improvement.
Dorset Travel has an annual budget of £28M and works with almost 100 different transport operators to provide safe and reliable transport for Dorset's residents.
About you:
We are looking for a great communicator to work collaboratively with colleagues across the Council, with bus and taxi operators, local councillors and members of the public.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and methodical person with good attention to detail, to strategically lead the team, using data and management information to shape service delivery.
You will be passionate about improving the service for our customers, presenting evidence-based proposals to inform decisions on the future direction of Dorset Travel.
You will have the ability to remain calm under pressure and be able to solve live issues in a rational, measured way.
You will have experience of contract management and ideally an understanding of procurement law, preferably within a local authority setting.
You will have experience of working in the transport and highways sector and/or with children and families and hold a track record of working within or alongside a local authority or government department.
If you share our energy and passion to make a real difference for our residents, then we want to hear from you. So come and join us and help us shape the future of our team.
Additional Information:
This post involves working with children and/or vulnerable adults and/or having access to significant information about them. It will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check. See our .
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Dorset Council: A great place to work
We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.
At Dorset Council we:
1. provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
2. have ambitious aspirations
3. are excited about our future
4. care about Dorset and all the people who live here
5. know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success
You will:
6. have access to
7. be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
8. have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression
We are challenging ourselves to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation. We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities.and welcome applications from everyone.
We are We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.
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