Road Safety Officer

The role will be to focus on educational messaging and activities to improve Road Safety for all road users in the county with the overall aim to reducing the number of individuals killed and seriously injured on the roads. You will work with partners such as local authorities and the fire service delivering presentations and public engagement events such as schools, motoring events, and police enforcement campaigns. Together with your supervisor you will then evaluate these interactions and behavioural change. This important role within the SSRP is largely engaging with Partners and Stakeholders to support the development, delivery, and evaluation on a variety of projects all aimed at improving road safety and changing behaviours.

• Plan and attend public engagements based on established SSRP engagement calendar, liaising with both internal and external agencies.
• Gather, track, and analyse feedback from Partners and external agencies in relation to projects, events, and campaigns.
• Explore new innovation with the potential to improve road safety and reduce harm on the roads.
• Attend relevant local and national road safety meetings and events, providing clear updates to relevant stakeholders through verbal and written presentations.
• Liaise with local road safety groups to share road safety awareness and improvements, initiatives, and projects.
Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade and character of work as may be reasonably required, including specific duties of a similar or lesser graded post.

Are you an enthusiastic and confident communicator with an analytical eye? A new and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Programme and Education Team within the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership (SSRP).,
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and interactive skills, including an ability to manage opposing views.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work with minimum supervision and as part of a team.
• Ability to adapt style and embrace change quickly and appropriately to suit the circumstances.
• Holder of UK Driving Licence.
• Able to use your own initiative including the ability to prioritise and organise workloads, with a willingness to learn and develop.
• Have an enquiring mind with the ability to problem solve efficiently and effectively and explain reasoning.
• Able to assess options and make decisions based on information from a variety of sources.
  
  The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.
Chief Constables' Message We really welcome your interest in joining our Police Force. It is a privilege to lead the teams in Surrey Police and Sussex Police who continuously work selflessly and tirelessly in order to keep people in our counties safe. We are looking for talented and inspirational people who put the needs of the public at the heart of everything that they do and who want to make a difference. If you feel you are that person then we want to hear from you. We wish you all the very best with your application. Chief Constable Tim De Meyer & Chief Constable Jo Shiner, We take pride in looking after our people and offer a variety of benefits;
• career progression
• contributory pension scheme (LGPS)
• generous annual leave allowance
• discounts for everyday spend
• generous and supportive parental leave
• financial and mental wellbeing guidance and support
• discounted contributory healthcare scheme, Following submission of your application you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your application attached. Occasionally emails from this address can fall into spam/junk folders so please ensure this is checked regularly. You may wish to consider adding noreply@surreysussexpolice.as.recruitmail.com to your address/contact list to ensure you receive all communications.
This post is being advertised in parallel with Force redeployment processes. Any redeployees who are identified will be given preference. This may result in the post being withdrawn at any point during the recruitment process. Please note that not all jobs are available for internal candidates across both Forces, the current agreed recruitment principles are;
• vacancies in collaborated units are available to all officers and staff across both Forces
• vacancies in non-collaborated units are only available to officers and staff within the Force with the vacancy unless it is advertised externally
• if the vacancy is advertised externally and an officer or member of staff from the other Force is successful it will result in a transfer of employment