Transport Planning Manager

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The Role This is an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to play a key leadership role in the delivery of a broad range of transport schemes including managing the public & educational transport function within the Transport Planning Unit of Falkirk Council.

The successful individual will take overall responsibility for managing and allocating the resources available to the service – allocating budgets, staff or commissioning services to ensure high-quality programmes that represent value for money, meets legislative requirements and supports first-class transport all year round for our community.

This is a role with plenty of opportunity to do things differently. You will be encouraged to pursue commercial opportunities for the service, and to work more holistically with other service areas to enable us to simplify processes, share resources better and tailor our approach around the things that matter most to our community.

It’s a highly visible service, so it’s essential that you can manage the customer and stakeholder engagement that is an integral part of the role, as well as bringing the relevant technical and professional qualifications and experience. We expect that you will be educated to degree standard with membership of an approved professional body, and that you already have senior management experience in a related setting. Accomplished people management skills will be an important attribute.

You will have good organisational and mentoring skills, along with experience of managing a team and associated budgets. You will be IT literate, have good interpersonal and report writing skills, with an ability to work as part of a wider management team.

You are required to be flexible, innovative and reactive to public demands and pressures.

Benefits

• We understand the need to work flexibly, with our hybrid working policy.
• This role includes flexi-time.
• Local Authority pension scheme.
• 27 days annual leave (increasing each year) & 8 public holidays.
• Benefits portal with a range from local to national businesses.

If you are the successful candidate you will be required to carry out a Disclosure Scotland check.

If you have any queries on the role, please contact gary.mcgregor@falkirk.gov.uk