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Transport Officer – Strategy and Development
Waverley Court

Salary: £36,312- £42,717 per year
Hours: 36 per week (flexible working options available)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Transport Officer to join the City of Edinburgh Council’s Placemaking and Mobility Strategy and Development Team. The role will support the development, coordination, delivery and monitoring of the Council’s flagship local transport strategy - the City Mobility Plan.

Are you highly motivated and seeking opportunities to join a team which is making real, lasting positive contributions towards meeting the Council’s net zero and car kilometre reduction targets by 2030? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

The ideal candidate will bring skills and energy together to help us transform the Capital - ensuring our streets provide excellent placemaking and sustainable mobility opportunities, alongside addressing the challenges of climate change and inequalities. This candidate must be proactive, enthusiastic, and creative; showing a keen desire to develop skills in data analytics, project management and delivery.

The role will be primarily responsible for supporting the coordination, development, delivery and monitoring of the City Mobility Plan and its associated strategies. This will include the collation, management, analysis and presentation of various transport data to measure progress against the City Mobility Plan’s objectives. Some of the data you will be analysing may include journey times, traffic flows, carbon emissions, mode shares, perceptions of safety etc.

The role will also require good communication and engagement skills to support the development and delivery of the City Mobility Plan including production of appropriate outputs, ranging from presentations to reports for a variety of audiences.

You should be:

educated to degree level in a relevant discipline;
strongly interested in managing and analysing complex quantitative and qualitative data;
a creative thinker and excellent communicator, with an ability to develop solid relationships, proactively and enthusiastically; and
knowledgeable and passionate about sustainability, urban planning/transport and/or public policy.

The Placemaking and Mobility Strategy and Development Team is passionate about making a positive difference and delivering great places for all, across Scotland’s beautiful capital. There are many opportunities to learn across a variety of disciplines to ensure sustainability, health, wellbeing and inclusivity are at the heart of decision-making.

Further information on the minimum job requirements is provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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.

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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.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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