North Northamptonshire Council
Senior Public Transport Officer
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About The Role
Connecting Communities, Creating Opportunities
Help shape the future of public transport across North Northamptonshire. Working within a small specialist team, you will develop and deliver transport policies, support essential services, and ensure residents can access reliable, sustainable, and inclusive travel options.
What will you be doing?
Working as part of a small specialist team, you will help deliver and develop public transport services across North Northamptonshire. You will work closely with transport operators, community partners, developers, and internal stakeholders to improve local transport provision, ensure compliance with statutory responsibilities, and support residents' access to reliable and sustainable travel options.
- Lead on the delivery of key public transport initiatives, including elements of the North Northamptonshire Enhanced Partnership Scheme and the annual Bus Service Improvement Plan.
- Review bus service registrations, liaise with operators on network changes, and identify opportunities to protect or improve local services.
- Develop service specifications and contract documentation for supported bus services, ensuring value for money and the best outcomes for communities.
- Manage concessionary travel arrangements, including relationships with libraries, transport operators, and partners, while resolving complex customer enquiries.
- Assess planning applications from a public transport perspective, helping secure transport improvements through new developments.
- Oversee the operational management of real-time passenger information systems, working with operators, contractors, and colleagues to maintain accurate and reliable services.
- Support the procurement and contract management of public transport services, systems, and framework agreements.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with community transport providers, monitoring performance, and administering funding and grant arrangements.
- Act as a key point of contact for public transport stakeholders, supporting the ongoing development and improvement of local transport services.
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About You
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Understand how the bus industry works and the differences between commercial and subsidised operations
- Ability to communicate clearly with councillors, senior management, bus operators, and members of the public. Ability to write reports and contribute to policy documents.
- Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social, and welfare needs.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
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Why choose us?
We Offer a Vibrant Working Environment With
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge, and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
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We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About Us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our Values Define Who We Are And How We Operate, By Forming The Foundation For How We Interact With Our Customers, Colleagues, And Provide Our Services. They Are Also At The Forefront Of Our Decision Making And Delivery And Are
- Customer-focused
- Respectful
- Efficient
- Supportive
- Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay, and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council
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