Full-Time Graduate Active Travel Officer
Job Description
About the Role
Are you enthusiastic about increasing access to and participation in walking, wheeling and cycling across the Liverpool City Region? Would you like to make a real difference to how people move around the City Region, both now and in the future?
As a graduate Active Travel Officer in the Active Travel team, you will have the opportunity to work across a wide range of projects within the team’s portfolio. The Active Travel Team delivers a wide range of programmes and projects across the Liverpool City Region with the aim of encouraging and enabling the take-up of active travel and supporting the growth of the City Region’s walking, wheeling and cycling network.
You will help us deliver the Metro Mayor’s ambition for walking, wheeling and cycling becoming the preferred ways of travelling shorter distances by the people of Liverpool City Region. You will support us with making active travel easier by improving connections between our public transport hubs (like railway stations) and walking and cycling routes, and, in doing so, deliver the mayor’s vision for a London style, integrated, transport system.
You will be involved with projects that work directly with schools, pupils, parents/carers and the local community through to promoting and supporting the development and delivery of new infrastructure, collaborating with our Constituent Local Authorities, and funding partners such as Active Travel England.
You will also assist project officers in the review of active travel schemes; supporting the Design Review process and ensuring that active travel infrastructure is of high quality.
Alongside technical support, you will also help the team develop and implement efficiency and process improvements that are critical to achieving our service area objectives.
About the person
Our ideal candidate will have a passion for active travel and sustainable transport, supported by a degree in a relevant subject. Most importantly, you will have a willingness to learn and a can-do attitude, ready to support our team across a variety of projects. Our team is our strength, so being able to work effectively in a team is vital, as too is the ability to be able to collaborate and build relationships with a range of stakeholders – internally and externally.