Fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for LBE staff, initially to 31 March 2022, 35 hours per week.
Could you deliver an assembly on road safety to 400 primary school children? Could you develop a workshop on active travel and run it with a group of 13 year olds? How about supporting a teacher to plan their sustainable travel campaigns and events? Perhaps you have a background in education or transport or could adapt your experience of working with children to deliver transport programmes in Ealing.
If you do, why not join our friendly team, who are passionate about walking, cycling and road safety. We are looking for a team player, with enthusiasm and creativity, who is willing to share their ideas and work with us to deliver our exciting active travel and road safety programme.
The School Travel Team is seeking to recruit two School Travel Advisors. The successful applicants will have experience and knowledge of the TfL or Modeshift STARs programme. They will encourage, support and influence the implementation and delivery of active travel and road safety programmes, including Ealing School Streets and Play Streets. They aim to increase school’s engagement in STARS and encourage more pupils to travel actively for their school journey.
Ealing Council wants to make the Borough a great place to live, work and spend time. The Transport Planning Service develops the council’s transport strategy and works with schools, businesses and communities. The Service delivers projects to ensure that people can travel in a safe and convenient way, encouraging them to walk, cycle and take public transport.
The council’s Transport Strategy aims to build a positive legacy to enhance the environment and improve public health, by focussing on ‘active travel’ (walking and cycling) plus public transport. We will create ‘Healthy Streets’ that seek to reduce pollution and increase physical activity rates.
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual, who understands and is passionate about the aims of our Transport Strategy, to work on active travel and road safety projects with schools in the Borough. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and presentation skills, the ability to motivate others, experience of working with children and be very enthusiastic about the role. They will need to be good at negotiating and persuading adults and children to take part in our events and campaigns. They must be willing to travel sustainably to, from and between selected schools in Ealing.
Key details of the role – responsibilities, accountabilities
Purpose of role:
- To assist with the development, promotion, co-ordination and delivery of high- quality school travel plans. Provide support for the implementation of actions and initiatives resulting from them
- To develop, plan and deliver behaviour change activities and training for children, parents and staff at selected schools in Ealing, to increase active travel mode share for the school journey
- To provide training and support for school champions so that they are able to independently run activities to continue to promote and encourage active travel
- To promote active travel as healthy and environmentally friendly methods of transport within the Borough
- To share best practise locally, regionally and nationally.
Key accountabilities:
- Assisting with delivery of a professional, successful school travel programme
- Increasing active travel for the school journey
- Raising awareness of active travel for the school journey
- Supporting school travel champions
- Developing good working relationships with stakeholders
- Maintaining health and safety
- Monitoring programmes
- Being responsible for managing self
- Carrying out any other duties as appropriate to the grading of the post as required.
Ealing council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Ealing follows safer recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults. The post holder will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
This role is deemed customer facing and as such you must have a command of spoken English which is sufficient to enable you to effectively perform the role. This requirement relates to Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016.
The position is for a fixed period, initially until 31st March 2022. External applicants will be offered a fixed-term contract and existing Ealing council employees will be offered the opportunity of a secondment. LBE employees must ensure a secondment release form is signed by their line manager before applying and emailed to HRSSC-RecruitmentTeam@ealing.gov.uk by the application closing date.
Job share will be considered.
Instructions for completing your application
When completing your application form, the Supporting Information must relate to the Person Specification in the Role Profile. Please give clear examples of how your experience, skills and abilities meet the required criteria. You can use examples from your previous jobs, voluntary and/or community work, spare time activities and/or training.
Location and brief description: Based at Perceval House, with regular work at schools in Ealing
Closing Date: 9 September 2021
