BCP Council

• Post Ref: 103247
• Department: Growth & Infrastructure
• Salary details: £34,723 to £45,495 per annum (pay award pending)
• Employment Status: Full Time
• Hours: 37 hours per week
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing date: 21 May 2023
• Interview date: W/C 5th June

Your new role Transport Development Officer (Career Grade I - K)

We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible, and passionate people, who want to make a difference for their community.

If you’re at the beginning of your career in Transport Development Management and looking to grow this career graded post is an excellent opportunity to develop your career and expand your skills, knowledge and qualifications, whilst working in a supportive and collaborative environment.

If you are part qualified, or already an established Transport Development Management practitioner confident with your abilities looking for a new challenge we will be able to offer you a fast-paced environment for curious, creative and ambitious individuals.

Alternatively, if you are already a qualified and seasoned Transport Development Management professional you will, from your first day of employment, be able to provide high quality professional advice to a wide group of customers involved in a range of diverse and exciting projects delivering the future growth and prosperity of the BCP area.

 Our offer for you:

• Flexible, tailored and accommodating hybrid working arrangements to suit a wide variety of applicants
• Access to a high quality office hub location in the heart of Bournemouth town centre, and satellite locations in Poole and Christchurch
• Excellent pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships
• Up to 30 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays, pro rata for part time
• Potential to purchase additional annual leave
• Relocation scheme for suitable candidates
• A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at popular high street and online retailers
• Wellbeing, Employee support and Counselling services
• Supportive and collaborative working environment in which to develop your career, grow your knowledge and validate your competence

Your new team

The Transport Development Management team is committed to ensuring that new developments invest in safe and convenient walking, cycling and public transport access for our communities. We work closely with our planners, engineers and urban designers to make this happen. At the same time, we must also resist and challenge development proposals that result in poor and unsafe environments.

This role involves working closely with developers and architects to ensure positive outcomes in relation to the transport requirements of development, and the fulfilment of BCP planning policy objectives, with particular regard to the encouragement of walking, cycling and public transport use in addition to the considerations of layouts, parking and the safe servicing of development.

The team is expanding to meet the rapidly increasing demands placed upon it and is therefore seeking individuals who will take pride in their work and able to deliver for the BCP area.  

Your new organisation

BCP Council have strong ambitions to grow. Born out of Local Government Reorganisation in 2019, Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole have come together to form the 10th largest urban local authority in England. It is a place where culture and heritage meet innovation and modernity, village meets town, country meets coast, creativity meets digital, businesses flourish and people thrive. The potential for investment and economic growth is huge.

With over 15 miles of beautiful, world-renowned coastline, the area has excellent transport links, with rail and road connections nationally and to London as well as international flights from Bournemouth Airport.

Its communities are vibrant and diverse, with an outstanding quality of life, where everyone plays an active role. They are a globally recognised coastline of opportunity, where people love to live, learn, work, explore, invent and relax.

BCP Council has a culture of openness to ideas and experimentation in how they do things, and welcome imaginative, creative and ambitious thinking. There is a corporate transformation programme underway that seeks to make best use of technology to deliver the best possible services to the area’s communities.

BCP Council is consistently in the top ten busiest local planning authorities in the country: representative of our diverse area, overall strategic growth and development opportunities, inward investment interest and premier location on the south coast, as the place to live, work and enjoy. BCP Council also has ambitious plans for growth to meet its housing and other development needs.

For an informal discussion about this role please contact Alexis Edwards, Transport Development Manager at alexis.edwards@bcpcouncil.gov.uk

Please note as part of your application you will be asked to submit a supporting personal statement outlining how you feel you meet the person specification relevant to the level of role that reflects your experience and qualifications.

To apply please visit: Transport Development Officer (bcpcouncil.gov.uk)

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation and colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. Expected to be in place 2024.