Transport Project Officer - 36 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Programme & Strategy team, as a Transport Projects Officer. In this role you'll be assisting the Strategic Projects Manager to develop and deliver a range of projects, most of which form part of our recently approved Parking and Kerbside Strategies. These include dockless e-bikes, car club expansion, cargo bike share, mobility hubs, urban greening, loading/goods movement, emissions-based parking charges, parking permits and policy, crossover policy, wayfinding and technology reviews.

This is a great opportunity to gain experience in the development and delivery of a diverse range of transport and parking projects, enhancing your project management, partnership working, and communication skills in the process.

About The Team You'll Be Working In
You'll be working in the Programme & Strategy team, which sits within the Transport & Parking division. The team is responsible for delivering several of the council's strategic transport projects, as well as helping to monitor contracts, delivery and performance across the division.

A current focus is the development and delivery of a range of initiatives falling under the emerging Parking and Kerbside Strategies. The team is also responsible for a range of other strategic projects such the delivery of over 2,000 new electric vehicle charging points. These transformational projects play an important part in delivering the Council's Corporate Plan and transport objectives.

1. You have experience in project managing successful transport and/or parking projects in an urban setting. Through this experience you will have developed a solid understanding of current best practice in the promotion of sustainable transport. You will have experience of strategy development, infrastructure design and/or behaviour change, ideally within a local government context. As such, you have the ability to support and deliver day to day work programmes and projects with minimal supervision.

2. You have experience in developing and leading partnership projects or services. This could be with other teams, local authorities, third sector stakeholders or businesses. You are a high performing individual who works collaboratively with others to achieve targets and service objectives. You also have the interpersonal, negotiation and organisational skills required to make these partnerships a success.

3. You have excellent written communication skills. This means you have the ability to clearly and concisely draft a range of different written documents, including reports, briefing notes, project briefs, fudding bids and correspondence. Key to this is being able to summarise complex proposals, often using non-technical language that is suitable for a range of audiences. You should be proficient in MS Word and experience using GIS/online mapping software is desirable, but not essential.

4. You possess excellent oral communication skills. You have the ability to present information and projects for consideration clearly, concisely and persuasively. You understand how to effectively use visuals, data, and concise text in MS PowerPoint to support oral presentations.

5. You are enthusiastic, approachable and act with integrity. This allows you to engage positively with colleagues, stakeholders and partners. You have a calm and clear approach to dealing with contentious and emotive issues to ensure the reputation of the team and council is maintained and ensure successful outcomes for our residents and community. Experience using shared transport services (e.g. car clubs, micromobility, etc.) is desirable, but not essential.

We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.