Job ID:
3433
All Locations
Town Hall Extension, Albert Square, Manchester, M60 2LA
All Job Types
Leadership
Advertising Salary
£68,094 - £73,532
Vacancy Type
Permanent
Growth and Development
Advert Closing Date
13 May 2024
Working Patterns offered:
Full-time

About The Role

Manchester City Council aims to be in the top-flight of world-class cities, with a dynamic economy and highly skilled people; to be well-connected, limiting climate change; and helping all of us feel safe and live well in our attractive and welcoming city.
 
With a clear mission to make Manchester a healthy, green, socially just city, where everyone can thrive. Our target is to become a zero carbon city by 2038 – twelve years ahead of the Government’s target for the UK! This is our opportunity to rebalance the current use of city centre space, promote sustainable and active travel, improve air quality, plant more trees, end fuel poverty and improve the environment across all the city’s neighbourhoods. In doing so, we can provide a better quality of life for all our residents and help our city to grow sustainably.
 
To help realise these ambitions, we are now seeking a Strategic Lead, Sustainable Travel to report directly to Hayley Fails, the Assistant Director Infrastructure Environment. This new and exciting role will be responsible for incorporating strategic transport systems including active travel, local area energy plans and infrastructure to support the city’s zero carbon ambitions. You will be passionate for working with and influencing colleagues, officers, members and stakeholders locally, regionally and nationally; alongside a strong grasp of the emerging policy and funding landscape, ensuring that Manchester maximises the opportunities available to it.
 
We are a diverse city with huge ambition, innovation and drive. Our ethos is about fairness and equality, so that all people in our city can benefit from the opportunities that our economic growth brings. Working in Manchester gives you the chance to do things that you would not get to do in other places, and it is a hugely exciting place to live and work.

About the Candidate

Working across the entire authority, and throughout the wider Greater Manchester region, you will be comfortable with taking big ideas and turning these into tangible, deliverable plans that contribution to our organisational objectives. You will be a strategic leader, with a demonstrable track record of programme delivery; recognising the need to empower and raise the profile of your new and emerging team, ensuring that all understand their impact upon the lives of our diverse communities here in Manchester.
 
  • Please submit your CV along with a Supporting Statement addressing the person specification criteria, evidencing how you meet the criteria.
  • Detail any employment or education gaps.
  • Be ready to provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees; one should be your current or most recent employer. Referees will be contacted for those proceeding to final stages. We will always gain your permission before we contact referees.
  • Let us know any difficulty you may have with the indicative timetable.
  • Check that your contact details are correct before you submit.

Once you have submitted your application, you will receive an automated email confirmation. If you do not receive, please email [email protected]

 
The following consultants are managing this role and will be happy to answer any questions that are not covered in the person specification.
 
Contact: Gary Evans Telephone: 07809 195 593
Contact: Rebecca Hopkin Telephone: 07827 098 173
Contact: Marnie Lodhi Telephone: 07795 654812
 
Closing Date: 13 May 2024

Assessment Centre: w/c 3 or 10 June 2024

About Us

We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion. 

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here. 

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

  • We take time to listen and understand
  • We work together and trust each other
  • We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
  • We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
  • We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council 

At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve.  We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.   

If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.   
 

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

  • Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
  • Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
  • If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

Accessibility 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work. 

We’ve also included some useful tips on how to submit the best application.

When you join us 

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role. 

Other relevant information 

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