Active Travel Officer

1 day ago

Wokingham, United Kingdom Wokingham Borough Council Full time

**Employer**: Wokingham Borough Council
**Salary**: £31,537 - £35,413 per annum
**Location**: Shute End, Wokingham
**Contract**: Permanent
**Working Pattern**: Full Time
**Hours**: 37 hours per week.
**DBS Check**: Enhanced
**Closing Date**: 07/11/2025 at 23:00
**Reference**: 712764

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Active Travel Officer for Schools to join our My Journey Wokingham Team and help play a central role in achieving positive outcomes in the way families travel to school in Wokingham

**About the service**
This is an excellent opportunity to join our determined and passionate My Journey team to help make a difference to Active and Sustainable Travel in the borough.

**About the role**
The role will focus primarily on working with schools in the borough. You will need to be a good communicator and well organised.
- To work closely with schools in the borough, building and developing relationships with key staff and recruiting junior active travel inspectors/active travel champions/eco committees to promote active and sustainable travel to the school community.
- Support the team to add value and contribute to our Modeshift Stars and Bikeability cycle training programmes in schools.
- To take the lead in planning, organising and delivering a programme of activities which encourage pupils, parents and the school community to travel more actively and sustainably; this may include bike breakfasts, air quality workshops, cycle skills or bike maintenance, advice and training sessions on safer walking/scooting/cycling, presentations/assemblies, and travel awareness campaigns.
- To assist in the assessment of travel plans from developments (including non-school sites) and to ensure travel plan commitments are delivered after completion of developments.
- To collaboratively work with key stakeholders and internal teams in the Councils, eg climate emergency, public health to identify synergies between objectives and the most efficient use of resources.
- To contribute to the delivery of a Council wide coordinated approach to tackling climate change, air quality and health and well-being objectives through the benefits of travel.
- To raise awareness of the My Journey brand and campaigns, school activities and the wider benefits of sustainable travel on climate change, air quality and health and well-being.
- To provide regular news stories and case studies for the My Journey website and wider media release.
- To support the collection of monitoring data related to schools ensuring activities being delivered meet the project objectives and targets.
- To be able to manage workloads, prioritise work and evaluate the effectiveness of individual projects in order to adapt our programmes to ensure maximum efficacy.
- To support the My Journey team with day to day activities/training, including events in the wider community and possibly including weekend and evening work (e.g. assisting in events)
- To assist the Council in delivering the relevant objectives of the Local Transport Plan and developing new objectives and targets.

**Closing date: 11pm, 7th November 2025**

**Interview date: TBC**

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Julie Pillai on 07770 324763
- WBC is an equal opportunities employer._

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