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About the Role

As a Senior Transport Planner, you will help deliver on the ambitious goals of the Camden Transport Strategy by delivering neighbourhood-based Healthy Streets projects and providing transport input on strategic transport planning initiatives. The role involves project managing multiple Healthy Streets projects focused on localized road safety, bus priority, walking, cycling, traffic reduction, and public realm improvement. You will also support the development of complex, area-wide, low-traffic projects and ensure schemes are delivered on time and to budget.

Responsibilities

Project manage multiple "Healthy Streets" projects focused on localised road safety, bus priority, walking, cycling, traffic reduction and public realm improvement.
Deliver Healthy Streets measures identified through the time-limited HS2 Road Safety Fund.
Support the Principal Transport Planner in developing complex, area-wide, "Safe & Healthy Streets" projects.
Ensure schemes are delivered on time and to budget, including project planning, feasibility, optioneering, community engagement & consultation, report writing, stakeholder management, monitoring, funding, budgeting and financial controls.
Think innovatively about how Healthy Streets projects can support wider improvements to public realm and the climate emergency.
Work across departments with colleagues from planning, regeneration, sustainability, highways, and parking.
Ensure neighbourhood-based Healthy Streets projects support and contribute to wider urban planning and sustainability initiatives.
Provide input into the application process for new stations and associated development in the Euston Station Masterplan area.
Assist planning colleagues in commenting on HS2 applications that impact Camden’s highway network.
Contribute to the development of all Euston related planning policy in a transport planning capacity.
Contribute to developing the Euston Healthy Streets project and the King’s Cross gyratory upgrade programme.
Undertake other relevant duties as required by the line manager.

Requirements

Knowledge of the policy and statutory framework for Euston Masterplan, Healthy Streets, transport planning and related activities.
Skill and experience in project management to deliver Healthy Streets transport infrastructure projects on time and to budget.
Experience and understanding of healthy streets and strategic transport planning projects.
Some experience of providing input onto planning applications.
Some experience of working in a team on projects of significant size, value and complexity.
Appreciation of key streetscape design issues and challenges, including accessibility and sustainability.
Good partnership working skills and the ability to develop effective stakeholder relations.
Liaise and negotiate with relevant external organisations.
Capacity to communicate clearly and sensitively as part of community engagement activities and with elected members.
Understanding of inclusive community engagement.
Ability to effectively help support and oversee the workload of more junior members of a team and/or consultants.
Understanding of how consultants in the industry operate.
Strong analytical and report writing skills.
Good presenting skills.
Demonstrates initiative and a pro-active, forward-thinking approach.
Good political awareness and sensitivity.
Good level of inter-personal skills.
Understanding of corporate policies and strategies.

Skills

Project management
Community engagement
Stakeholder management
Report writing
Analytical skills
Presenting skills
Partnership working
Negotiation

Location

5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG

Work Type

Full-time
Fixed-Term Contract

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant subject or with equivalent experience in transport planning

Salary/Compensations

£46,006

Benefits

Host of benefits
Flexible working employer

About the Company

The London Borough of Camden is a leader in sustainable transport, consistently pushing boundaries to create a cleaner and safer borough and city centre.
Camden is home to one of the largest transport-led regeneration projects in Euston, working closely with partners at TFL, Network Rail, HS2 and others to deliver transformative outcomes.

Equal Opportunity

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.