Active Travel Plan Officer

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Islington Council Full time

The Active Travel Plan Officer is responsible to the Active Travel Team Leader for developing, promoting and co-ordinating the delivery of school travel plans and related active travel projects.

You will be supporting school children to become healthier by taking up active travel (walking, cycling and scooting) and reducing the school run, you’ll be working the goals of the council’s Transport Strategy and Vision Zero, as well as supporting schools with their whole school goals, such as the Healthy Schools Agenda.
- A teaching qualification or at least two years’ experience working in a school travel adviser post or a road safety environment.
- Experience of the management of staff
- An in-depth knowledge of school travel plans and/or sustainable travel initiatives
- An ability to work collaboratively on a range of projects
- An understanding of current legislation that governs Road Safety
- Ability to be deliver presentations to both internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to prepare funding bids for submission
- An ability to provide expert advice to elected members, management and less experienced colleagues
- This role will require you to obtain an Enhanced/Standard satisfactory clearance from the Disclosure and Barring Service

Islington is an exciting and dynamic part of London experiencing rapid growth and undergoing a significant transformation in its transport environment. Islington Council is committed to creating a greener, healthier borough by making our transport more inclusive and enjoyable for everyone.

The council's Active Travel Team plays a key role in creating better neighbourhoods, streets and public spaces to meet the needs of local communities and has won several awards for our ground-breaking work.

**Closing date**: Sunday 16th April 2023 at 23:59

**Interviews**: Tuesday/Wednesday 25th-26th April 2023
- To develop and co-ordinate support for school communities creating and implementing school travel plans and assisting schools to progress funding bids.
- To support the School Streets project, to promote engagement in the project and to promote the scheme to the wider community.
- To develop and implement consultations for the school streets project.
- To work closely with all stakeholders engaged in the school streets project.
- To maintain and produce reports from the STARS Transport for London school travel plan programme and disseminate this information when require.
- To consider, develop and implement a promotion and publicity strategy for school travel plans which will ensure that schools are aware of and know how to access relevant and appropriate information and guidance. To disseminate information about school travel plans through presentations and existing publications and through the identification of other opportunities.
- To review existing monitoring and evaluation procedures and develop and implement ways to accurately determine and record progress made by schools tackling and implementing School Travel Plans
- To work in partnership with other organisations and stakeholders to promote the school travel and school streets programme.
- To undertake other duties commensurate to the grade of the post

Reporting
- To be responsible for updating and maintaining existing procedure notes relating to school travel plans.
- To be responsible for undertaking risk assessments prior to any projects or events delivered as part of the council’s school travel plan programme.

Management

Management of staff, allocation and direction of work, identification of training needs and providing workplace training and guidance on road safety. Ensuring that work programmes are carried out to an approved standard and in accordance with Council policy, statutory requirement and agreed timescales.
Correspondence
- Assist with the preparation of Committee Reports and statistics and act as a representative at public, officer and Member meetings, working parties and committee as required.
- Dealing with all correspondence and enquiries relating to cycle training matters including drafting replies to Members and MP’s enquiries as assigned.



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