Bristol City Council
Senior Network Management Officer
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Bristol City Council as a Senior Network Management Officer within the Highway Network Management service.
You will work at a senior technical and professional level, helping to coordinate complex activities and projects across Bristol’s highway network.
You will provide specialist advice, support the delivery of Bristol’s Streetworks Permit Scheme and help ensure that works affecting the highway are carefully planned and coordinated.
This is a varied role offering the opportunity to work with colleagues, contractors, utility companies and partner organisations to support effective service delivery and minimise disruption to people travelling around the city.
What will I be doing?
You will provide specialist and technical expertise across the team’s work programme, acting as a source of authoritative advice to colleagues and project teams.
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
- Lead and coordinate complex highway network activities and projects, ensuring delivery to agreed timescales, service standards and strategic objectives.
- Support the delivery and ongoing development of Bristol’s Streetworks Permit Scheme, providing specialist technical advice and expertise.
- Build and maintain effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to support network management and service improvement.
- Identify and implement improvements to policies, procedures and ways of working, while providing guidance and support to colleagues.
The role may occasionally require you to work outside standard working hours.
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What do I need to have?
The key qualifications, experience and skills we are looking for include:
- National Qualifications Framework/Qualifications and Credit Framework/ Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications Level 5, relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of knowledge and experience
- Technical knowledge of highway network management, transport services, relevant legislation, policies and best practice
- Experience of managing and coordinating projects, including monitoring progress, costs, deadlines and service delivery
- Strong communication and partnership working skills, with the ability to provide advice, guidance and support to colleagues, stakeholders and the public.
You must also have experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Research and benchmarking of innovative services.
- Public consultation or public inquiries.
- Interpreting, producing or presenting complex technical or financial information.
- Multi-agency / partnership working.
- Income generation and project costing.
Previous experience of working for or with a local authority and a full current driving licence would be desirable.
Why Bristol City Council
At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation.
Join us and you’ll receive a generous rewards package including flexible working and flexi-time, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance as you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to it’s future.
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To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.
We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.
For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact Dale Linnell.
At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.
The personal information section (including your name) you’ll complete as part of the application form will not be visible to hiring managers, but is used confidentially to make sure that everyone is treated fairly.
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