Inspector

Active Travel England (ATE) is the government’s executive agency responsible for making walking, wheeling and cycling the preferred choice for everyone to get around in England.
There has never been a more exciting time to join us to create happier, healthier communities, by helping to transform local transport and enabling half of all short journeys in England’s towns and cities to be walked, wheeled or cycled by 2030. We are raising the standards of walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure across England, by overseeing improved design, and increasing skills and capability in local authorities.
We are looking for a Traffic/ Transport/ Highways Engineer/Urban Designer/Transport Planner/Spatial Planner/Accessibility Professional to build ATE’s inspection functions.
The team will include specialists from all these professions to ensure a holistic view of design is taken. ATE will enforce new standards in cycling and walking provision, raise performance, and be a repository of expertise in scheme design.
You will need a good understanding of designing for active travel, with experience of working in a highways or sustainable transport division of a local authority, government department or consultancy/NGO. With a good understanding of equality and diversity in scheme design, you will have good technical, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Responsibilities
+ Work with a range of stakeholders to ensure ATE’s Inspectorate functions are well understood and embedded in their design practice.
+ Deliver the scheme inspection regime, highlighting examples of good and poor practice, and engaging with local authorities to raise standards.
+ Ensure that a range of needs are considered when inspecting and advising on scheme design including children, older people, women, disabled people and people from a range of ethnic backgrounds.
+ Help support local authorities to enable them to design and deliver high quality active travel infrastructure.
+ Be part of a team of talented inspectors who can make an impact at the scheme level as well as by influencing the policy agenda.
+ Prepare data for monitoring and tracking of scheme assets.
+ Potential line management in the future.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile., You will be eligible for, working towards or currently hold membership of a chartered institute (ICE, CIHT, CILT, RTPI, CMLI etc.)., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Delivering at Pace
+ Working Together
+ Developing Self and Others
+ Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ Government Science and Engineering Career Framework - Communicating science and engineering for government - Disseminating science and engineering, Interviews/assessments are likely to be held week commencing 27th January 2025.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
+ an interview and presentation
This interview will be conducted virtually using MS Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, and the Government Science and Engineering career Framework as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
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Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes., Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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Security
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Do you have a technical working knowledge of active travel design?
Can you proactively deliver at pace, contributing to high-performing teams?
Have you got strong communication skills and can adapt to your audience?
If so, we have an exciting challenge for an experienced planner/designer/engineer with a passion for active travel and a track record of influencing change, and we would love to hear from you!, The successful candidate will have good knowledge of inclusive design with an understanding of how to embed provision for disabled people. You will understand how cycling and walking should be embedded in local authority planning, design and highways adoption policies and processes. You will have analytical skills to prepare information for senior management.
You will have a good understanding of design standards which include Manual for Streets, Inclusive Mobility and LTN 1/20, and their role in driving up standards of walking, cycling and wheeling infrastructure. With knowledge of inclusive design, you understand how to embed provisions for disabled people and experience delivering inclusive consultations which consider the needs of all.
You will have an understanding of the project life cycle, from consultation to implementation and post project evaluation, with experiencing of inclusive consultations. You will have significant experience in the design, implementation and supervision of highways design and construction projects, with a specialism in active travel.
With experience of policy development, you can interpret complex policies at pace with an ability to work with stakeholders to make connections between policy and real world situations, presenting arguments clearly amid uncertainty., + Sound technical knowledge of active travel design and guidance (Manual for Streets, Inclusive Mobility, LTN 1/20) including an ability to interpret design drawings and associated information.
+ Good understanding of the project lifecycle from consultation to implementation and post project evaluation.
+ Experience of interpreting complex situations at pace with an ability to work with and communicate to stakeholders, applying policy to real world situations.
+ Demonstrable understanding of diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity and experience of applying these principles to deliver the best outcomes.

Alongside your salary of £42,848, Active Travel England contributes £12,413 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
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