Transport Planner Apprentice

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 285099**Salary**:

- £26,780- National salary £26.780 and London salary £30, 715**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Apprenticeship**Business area**:

- DFT - Decarbonisation, Technology & Strategy Group (DTS) - New Economy and Union**Type of role**:

- Geography
- Planning
- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Do you have a passion for sustainable mobility and liveable places? Do you want to put these at the core of your future career?_

The Department for Transport (DfT) is recruiting for one Transport Planning apprentice.

This role comes at an important time for the country as the way people and goods move around is changing. How transport planning policy considers these changes will impact where we work and live, as well as how we reach our climate goals and organise the economy. The Department’s Transport Planners play a critical strategic role in delivering the Government’s levelling up agenda to reduce regional inequality and boost growth, while facilitating the pathway to net zero by 2050.

Some examples of the work of Transport Planners are:

- Providing advice for ministers on key planning issues that face the country;
- Working with different teams and departments to help deliver transport decarbonisation and levelling up through the planning system;
- Updating policy and guidance to improve outcomes for all modes from walking, wheeling, and cycling to future transport;
- Engaging with industry to understand the challenges faced

**Job description**:

- Work with Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and key stakeholders to improve integration between the spatial and transport planning systems in support of our objective for high-quality transport provision to be built into plans for new employment and housing from the outset, including promoting sustainable and active transport.
- Help develop and draft a range of tools, policy and guidance to place transport delivery at the heart of the levelling up agenda and the key catalyst to drive sustainable growth.
- Assist the Department in influencing and negotiating emerging planning legislation, policy and guidance across Government, so that DfT policies and objectives are appropriately reflected.

This will be complemented by studying for a part time BSc in Transport Planning with Aston University over five years.

Click here to find out information on the Transport Planning BSc.

Click here to find out Information on the apprenticeship.

**The Level 6 Transport Planner Apprenticeship**:
An apprenticeship is an exciting opportunity to ‘earn whilst you learn’ by combining theoretical learning with practical ‘on-the-job’ experience; allowing you to work towards a nationally recognised qualification, whilst building skills in your daily role and earning a salary. An apprenticeship also allows you to secure a qualification with no tuition / student fees as the programme is fully funded by the department.

You will spend 6-hours per week of your contracted working hours dedicated to your apprenticeship and will be surrounded by a supportive network. You will be allocated an apprentice buddy, and will have regular development conversations with a dedicated learning coach and the DfT Apprenticeship Team to ensure your learning needs are met and you are on track to successfully complete your apprenticeship.

Further information about the Transport Planner Level 6 Apprenticeship is available here.

**Entry Requirements**

To be eligible for this programme, you will need to:

- Be at least 16-years old.
- Have the right to work in the UK.
- Have been a resident in the UK/EA/EEA continuously for 3-years before starting the apprenticeship.
- Have left full-time education when the apprenticeship starts.
- Not be in receipt of funding for other learning programmes (including another apprenticeship)
- Three A Levels, or equivalent qualifications
- At least a 5 (C) for English GCSE and a 6 (B) for GCSE maths.

**Person specification**:
Duties and responsibilities

**Your responsibilities will vary depending on which team you are first posted to but could include**:

- Help develop and draft a range of tools, policy and guidance to place transport delivery at the heart of the levelling up agenda and the key catalyst to drive sustainable growth.
- Work with Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and key stakeholders to improve integration between planning and transport in support of our objective for high-quality transport provision to be built into plans for new employment and housing from the outset, including promoting sustainable and active transport.
- Assist the Department in influencing and negotiating emerging planning legislation, policy a