East Midlands Freeport Transport Programme Lead

Are you an experienced Highways and Transport professional looking for a new challenge? East Midlands Freeport and Leicestershire County Council are looking for a Transport Programme Lead - A unique opportunity to use your expertise in a multi-agency collaborative space, ensuring tangible outcomes and the growth of East Midlands Freeport and the region. This is a key role, reporting to the Director of Environment & Transport at Leicestershire County Council, and working closely with the Chief Executive Officer, board and leadership team at the Freeport. You'll also work closely with stakeholders including National Highways, local highway and planning authorities, EMCCA, Midlands Connect, developers and consultants to ensure collaboration and positive outcomes. You'll be responsible for the identification and delivery of new highway and transport infrastructure, to address capacity issues in the East Midlands Freeport area on both strategic and local road networks. Establishing good working relationships between all parties, you'll develop a Transport Programme Plan, ensuring it is managed and delivered successfully within fast-moving planning and development timescales.

• Successful leadership and management of complex, significant and demanding programmes and projects, including experience of resolving complex organisational, partnership and service issues.
• Significant and in-depth knowledge of current legislative requirements, governance and relevant policies and procedures associated with: Highways and Transport, Growth, Infrastructure provision, Developing infrastructure delivery strategies and Effective operating/delivery models.
• Experience of building and developing robust and productive relationships with a wide range of partners, including engagement, leadership and negotiation skills to influence key stakeholders to deliver.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, to provide strategic advice to East Midlands Freeport, local authority members and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the linkages and relationship between infrastructure coordination/delivery and the planning system.
• Strategic thinking at a senior level and its application to policy and strategy development.
• Experience of using strategic data to inform decision making and implementation activities and priorities.
• Awareness/experience of commercial approaches adopted by developers, and knowledge and experience of strategic and local transport modelling techniques.
We are keen to appoint to this role without delay, therefore candidates should ensure they have the appropriate management support before applying for the secondment. As a hybrid worker, you will be able to undertake most of your role independent of a fixed location. You will have a contractual office base (County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA) which you will attend by need, rather than default, but most of your working week will be spent remotely. There will be a requirement to travel across the East Midlands as necessary, for site visits and meetings.