Overview
Our Benefits
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About the role
Are you passionate about sustainable travel and ensuring efficient public transport services for your community? West Northamptonshire Council is seeking a dedicated individual to join our Highways and Transport Team as a Public Transport Officer. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in supporting the delivery of the Council’s public transport policies within the Sustainable Travel Team.
If you have any questions about this vacancy, please email jason.ball@westnorthants.gov.uk
What will you be doing?
As a Public Transport Officer, your role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities. You’ll collect and analyse data to monitor the Council’s Enhanced Partnership Scheme, ensuring bus reliability and usage. Handling bus service registrations and approvals under the Concessionary Travel Scheme, you’ll liaise with operators and respond to inquiries, maintaining accurate information for both online and offline mediums.
Additionally, you’ll manage the end-to-end process of bus publicity, from preparation to distribution, ensuring timely and accurate material. Overseeing bus stop infrastructure, you’ll commission installations, procure repairs, and handle consultations.
About you
To thrive in this role, you should demonstrate strong analytical and data management skills, ensuring accurate insights for informed decision-making. You should also have good communication and customer service skills to deal with inquiries. A solid understanding of public transport operations and policies will equip you to navigate the role seamlessly.
If you’re ready to contribute to enhancing public transport services in West Northamptonshire, join us!
About us
We’re a new council, following one of the largest shake-ups in local government
reform in recent history. As a new authority, we’re embarking on an exciting journey
to deliver exceptional services for our residents, customers and
communities. Â
Our vision at West Northamptonshire Council is ‘to make West Northants a great
place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to
make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance,
Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver
services.Â
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with
ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail,
and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A
place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-
minded people.
When potential is unlocked, talent thrives.
Choose a career that offers you a true sense of achievement, fills you with pride and
challenges you in a positive way, every day.
West Northants Council, where careers thrive.
