Active Travel England
Active Travel England: Regional Manager for Yorkshire and The Humber
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Job Summary
Can you build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and become the trusted expert for your portfolio, providing advice and support to colleagues and partners across the region.
Have you successfully communicated complex or technical information, including delivering difficult messages with confidence, clarity, and professionalism.
Are you knowledgeable about active travel, planning policy, and the legal and regulatory frameworks that shape local authority decision-making, with the ability to quickly develop expertise in new areas.
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The post holder will act as the key contact for Yorkshire and The Humber, quickly developing the knowledge required to provide advice and support to ATE colleagues and external stakeholders. They will build and maintain strong relationships with senior partners, supporting collaboration and influencing positive outcomes. Success requires excellent communication skills, including explaining complex information and delivering challenging messages. A sound understanding of active travel and planning policy, alongside the wider legal and regulatory frameworks affecting local authorities, is essential.
Joining Our Department Comes With Many Benefits, Including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
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Job Description
Active Travel England promotes safer, more accessible streets by embedding walking, wheeling, and cycling into transport planning. We are seeking a Regional Manager for Yorkshire and The Humber in the External Engagement Team to build and manage relationships with key stakeholders, coordinate significant transport and development schemes, support delivery partners, and oversee partnership agreements. The role requires excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, alongside knowledge of planning, highways, or sustainable transport. This is an opportunity to contribute to an inclusive, innovative, and growing organisation.
Your Responsibilities Will Include, But Aren’t Limited To:
- Building and maintaining relationships with transport, highways, and spatial planning officials and key local organisations in Yorkshire and The Humber, to represent ATE, explain and interpret policy, support local delivery, gather intelligence, and use this insight to secure the best outcomes for active travel
- Acting as a senior external face of ATE, ensuring that key messages and information from the centre are communicated efficiently and with credibility
- Maintaining effective feedback loops from local areas into the centre to make sure that ATE remains relevant and is addressing the needs of its customer base
- Providing cross-disciplinary troubleshooting support to local authority clients, whether on specific schemes or general issues, and signposting to the relevant ATE expertise and escalating issues when necessary
- Managing briefing and correspondence for your portfolio – leading on Ministerial business and visits to external bodies in your portfolio
- Leading the collaborative work between the wider organisation and the Regional Team, working with programme managers, supporting the oversight and governance of active travel relevant funds or policy initiatives
- Deal with difficult issues in the most appropriate way as and when they arise, including preparing and presenting appropriate evidence to senior leaders in response to challenge
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For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Person Specification
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Building effective relationships with senior external stakeholders
- Effective communication, including delivering difficult messages or complex technical information
- Navigating the legislation, procedures, and guidance relating to active travel and planning policy
- Navigating the general legal and regulatory frameworks and processes relevant to the work of local authorities
Additional Information
This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.
The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.
Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays
If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker Licence sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. Candidates must ensure they have the appropriate rights to work in the UK before application.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
Communicating and Influencing
Alongside your salary of £57,515, Active Travel England contributes £16,662 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
- 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
- Access to the staff discount portal.
- Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
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Selection Process Details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, and Experience.
How To Apply
Our selection process ensures a comprehensive assessment of each applicant's qualifications, skills, and potential fit within our organisation.
The Selection Process For This Role Will Be:
Stage 1: Sift of CV and Personal Statement
Stage 2: Interview
You must be successful at each stage to progress to the next stage.
Stage 1: Sift
At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:
- Behaviour – you will be asked to provide a 250-word statement on the following Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing
- Experience – you will be asked to provide a CV (unlimited wordcount) and Personal Statement (750 wordcount). Please provide evidence of your Experience of the following:
- Building effective relationships with senior external stakeholders
- Effective communication, including delivering difficult messages or complex technical information
- Navigating the legislation, procedures, and guidance relating to active travel and planning policy
- Navigating the general legal and regulatory frameworks and processes relevant to the work of local authorities
Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the lead Success Profile element, the Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.
The sift will take place week commencing week commencing 27th July 2026.
Stage 2: Interview
At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:
- Behaviours – Communicating and Influencing, Seeing the Big Picture, Managing a Quality Service, and Working Together
- Strengths
The interviews will take place week commencing week commencing 17th August 2026.
This interview will be conducted in person at our York office (West Offices, Station Rise, York, YO1 6GA). Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
Please note that we will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change.
Further information on the selection process
For more information about how we hire, useful tips on submitting your application, and interview guidance for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
We will also hold a 12-month reserve list for this role, which may lead to potential opportunities beyond the role you applied for. You can read more about our reserve lists here.
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