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About the Role

This role will act as a data lead within the Transport Strategy Team, helping to ensure that policies, programmes, and investment decisions are supported by robust, accessible, and meaningful evidence. You will work across a varied portfolio of ambitious transport projects, bringing together data from different sources to identify trends, understand transport challenges, and evaluate the impact of interventions. This is not simply a reporting role; you will be expected to think strategically about what the evidence means, identify where further investigation is needed, and help colleagues use data to develop creative and practical solutions.

Responsibilities

Lead the development and coordination of transport data, monitoring, and evaluation across the team.
Analyze complex datasets and translate findings into clear insights, recommendations, and compelling narratives.
Develop dashboards, maps, reports, and other tools that make evidence accessible to technical and non-technical audiences.
Establish proportionate and robust monitoring frameworks for major transport policies, programmes, and projects.
Identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities and advise colleagues on their strategic implications.
Support the development of business cases, funding bids, strategies, and senior decision-making reports.
Work with project teams to define success measures and evaluate whether interventions are delivering their intended outcomes.
Improve the quality, consistency, and accessibility of transport data held across the Council.
Explore new datasets, technologies, and analytical techniques that could improve how the team understands and manages the transport network.
Build productive relationships with colleagues, consultants, operators, Transport for London, and other external partners.

Requirements

Strong analytical skills and the ability to work confidently with complex or imperfect data.
Experience of turning evidence into clear conclusions and practical recommendations.
An understanding of monitoring, evaluation, data quality, and analytical assurance.
The ability to communicate technical findings clearly through reports, presentations, visualisations, and briefings.
Strong strategic thinking and an ability to connect detailed analysis with wider policy objectives.
The confidence to question assumptions, identify gaps, and propose new approaches.
The ability to manage competing priorities and respond constructively when circumstances change.
An interest in transport, cities, public policy, sustainability, or the use of data to improve public services.
Curious, creative, and motivated by solving difficult problems.
Dynamic and comfortable thinking on your feet.
Proactive, organised, and willing to take ownership.
Able to see both the detail and the wider strategic picture.
Collaborative and confident working across professional boundaries.
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving and politically sensitive environment.
Ambitious about what good data and evidence can achieve.
Focused on producing analysis that leads to action, rather than analysis for its own sake.

Skills

Transport data
Monitoring
Evaluation
Data quality
Analytical assurance
Data analysis
Data visualisation
Reporting
Strategic thinking
Problem-solving

Location

South London

Work Type

Full Time
12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Experience Level

SO1/PO2 Career Graded

Salary/Compensations

£40,404 rising in annual increments £47,925 Inc LW

Benefits

Lambeth Staff Benefits

About the Company

Located in the heart of South London, Lambeth Borough is a vibrant community of over 317,600 residents. Stretching from the dynamic neighbourhood of Streatham in the South to the iconic landmarks of Waterloo in the North, we are proud to be the 9th largest borough in London. Our diversity is our strength, with more than 130 languages spoken, making Lambeth the home of the Windrush generation, London's largest LGBTQ+ community, and a thriving Portuguese-speaking community.
It is an exciting time to join Lambeth Council, we have bold ambitions for the future of Lambeth’s communities and residents through our Lambeth 2030 Plan ‘Our Future, Our Lambeth.
With exceptional schools, lush green spaces including Brockwell Park, cultural gems like the Black Cultural Archives, and world-renowned institutions such as St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth offers an enriching and dynamic environment.
Lambeth’s Transport Strategy Team is an ambitious, multidisciplinary team shaping the future of transport and public space across one of London’s most diverse and dynamic boroughs.
We develop transport policy, lead innovative programmes and use evidence to design and deliver projects that make Lambeth’s streets safer, greener, more accessible and more inclusive. Our work covers a wide range of areas, including active travel, road danger reduction, public transport, micro mobility, electric vehicles, freight, parking policy and the future use of the kerbside.
This is a high-performing and collaborative team working on complex, high-profile projects that can have a direct and lasting impact on residents, businesses and visitors.
Data is fundamental to how we work. We use transport, movement, safety, environmental and operational data to understand problems, develop policy, design interventions and evaluate whether our projects are achieving their intended outcomes.
We are looking for people who are curious, adaptable and comfortable working in an environment where priorities can move quickly. You will be encouraged to think creatively, test new approaches and help the team turn complex evidence into clear decisions and ambitious action.

Equal Opportunity

At Lambeth, we are dedicated to providing quality services and equal opportunities for all.
We are committed to safer recruitment and are proud to be a Stonewall diversity champion, a Living Wage Employer, and to guarantee interviews for all disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria of the role.