Contact: | Leo Murray |
Region: | UK Various |
Location: | London, Leeds, Birmingham, York, Bristol, Bath |
Email: | leo@wearepossible.org |
Sector: | Other |
Web: | https://www.wearepossible.org/careers |
Category: | Transport planning |
Closes: | 15 Mar 2021 |
Salary: | Unspecified |
More info: |
Possible is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of their background. We value diversity whilst also acknowledging that people from certain backgrounds are underrepresented in our organisation. We are keen to correct this, so particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic people; people who identify as disabled; people who identify as LGBTQIA+ communities; people who have experienced mental health challenges and people who identify as working class (or have done in the past).
This specialist transport planning role will support Possible’s Car Free Cities campaign team to kickstart the process of making private cars obsolete in our cities.
You will provide technical expertise to carry out related research including citizen science studies with our academic partners, and work with communities to co-design proposals for streetscape changes that reallocate road space in our cities away from private cars and give it back to people and nature, enhancing the public realm and facilitating a societal shift towards active and sustainable travel.
Your day to day will involve working closely with the Car Free Cities team in their efforts to engage communities, policy makers and other stakeholders to develop plans to erode urban motor traffic dominance, ensuring our work is underpinned by the best available evidence.
Possible have secured funding to campaign to reduce private car dominance in cities, showing how achieving the big reductions in motor traffic needed to meet climate change targets will also dramatically improve health outcomes and quality of life for people living in cities, particularly in the most polluted areas.
We are putting together a crack team to help make change happen in four cities in the UK, and Paris, and New York. Your number one job will be to work with colleagues and partners to develop proposals for changes at the city, local, neighbourhood and street levels which can help people to transcend car dependency and meet their mobility needs in ways that are less socially and environmentally damaging.
This role will be central to ensuring that all of our work in this space is underpinned by a robust evidence base. As well as leading the design process for bottom-up proposals for streetscape interventions to reduce traffic locally, you will also have the opportunity to ‘dream big’ with high level concepts for car-free alternative visions for iconic street scenes in our target cities.
This post will also play a pivotal role in developing and delivering supporting research with our academic and consultancy partners, from desk-based projects analysing local transport data and related policy frameworks, to deep-dive ‘optioneering’ with a prospective car-free community in London, household surveys on existing local traffic management measures, equity analysis on how the car free agenda interacts with those with complex mobility needs, and citizen-science traffic surveys using low cost monitors.
About you:
To make our shortlist, you’ll need to have:
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If wouldn’t hurt if you had some of this too (if you’re worried about applying because you don’t, you can get in touch):
Here at Possible, we have a vision for a low carbon Britain that has been built by and belongs to everybody.
To get there, we dream up projects, build tools and spread success stories to make sure everyone has the help and inspiration they need to play a role in tackling climate change. Our work cuts carbon, but because we work on cultural as well as technical levels, we get people talking about climate change action too. We want our projects to take on the world, so it is always about more than just a solar panel here, or an LED there - it’s about groups of people working together to change the world.
Inclusivity, trust and respect, creativity, shared ambition, positivity, caring and kindness, integrity, and openness.
These aren’t just buzzwords to make us feel warm and fuzzy, they are what guide our actions and our organisational culture. Away-days help to keep these values alive and we work together to keep our team as supported, empowered and cared for as possible. We’re run by a team of directors rather than one single CEO, and we’re committed to reducing hierarchy wherever possible.
We are committed to supporting people with marginalised identities who are under-represented in our organisation. If you have any questions about the job or how we do things at Possible before you apply, email leo@wearepossible.org and we can arrange a phone call.
Everything you need to apply is in this application form.
Fill it in and return it to jobs@wearepossible.orgno later than 9am GMT, 15th March 2021. Please put “Transport Planner” in your email subject line.
We will hold two rounds of interviews. Each interview will happen online with two interviewers from the Possible staff team and the Active Travel Academy, and last between 60-90 minutes, including a short task. For candidates invited to second round interviews there will also be an opportunity to speak informally with two Possible staff members not involved in the appointment process to ask any questions about our workplace, and get a feel for our organisational culture.
We expect to hold first round interviews on the22nd, 23rd, 24th & 25th March. We expect to hold second round interviews on 29th & 30th March. If you know you are not able to make any of these dates, please let us know in the appropriate section in the application form.
Please tell us if you have access needs for the recruitment process and we will try and meet your needs.
We’d also appreciate it if you could complete an equal opportunities monitoring form. This will be stored separately to your application and is purely to help Possible assess and improve our recruitment processes.
We are aware that highly capable prospective candidates sometimes rule themselves out of applying for roles because they're worried they don't quite fit all the requirements, or because they've gained their experience in an unconventional setting (eg. through voluntary work or in a completely different sector). So if you’re not sure if you're quite right for the job, please do get in touch with leo@wearepossible.org to chat a bit more about what the role would involve and what we’re looking for.
Everything you need to apply is in this application form.
Fill it in and return it to jobs@wearepossible.orgno later than 9am GMT, 15th March 2021. Please put “Transport Planner” in your email subject line.
We will hold two rounds of interviews. Each interview will happen online with two interviewers from the Possible staff team and the Active Travel Academy, and last between 60-90 minutes, including a short task. For candidates invited to second round interviews there will also be an opportunity to speak informally with two Possible staff members not involved in the appointment process to ask any questions about our workplace, and get a feel for our organisational culture.
We expect to hold first round interviews on the22nd, 23rd, 24th & 25th March. We expect to hold second round interviews on 29th & 30th March. If you know you are not able to make any of these dates, please let us know in the appropriate section in the application form.
Please tell us if you have access needs for the recruitment process and we will try and meet your needs.
We’d also appreciate it if you could complete an equal opportunities monitoring form. This will be stored separately to your application and is purely to help Possible assess and improve our recruitment processes.
We are aware that highly capable prospective candidates sometimes rule themselves out of applying for roles because they're worried they don't quite fit all the requirements, or because they've gained their experience in an unconventional setting (eg. through voluntary work or in a completely different sector). So if you’re not sure if you're quite right for the job, please do get in touch with leo@wearepossible.orgto chat a bit more about what the role would involve and what we’re looking for.
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