Active Travel Support Officer

Are you interested in an opportunity to work in the varied and exciting field of active travel providing support to the Active Travel Team?  Are you passionate about increasing wheeling, walking & cycling levels across Greater Manchester? If you are seeking a new opportunity where you have a positive impact on the environment and the public then this role could be for you.

Your Role

The Active Travel Support Officer provides administrative and technical support to the Active Travel Team to help us efficiently deliver a wide range of programmes and projects.

This includes being responsible for using and managing financial and procurement systems; managing mailboxes and dealing with enquiries from suppliers and the public; supporting our events programmes and providing administrative support to the TfGM cycle training programme.

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Who are we?

This is an exciting time for walking, wheeling & cycling across Greater Manchester with the development of the Bee Network and associated activity. The Active Travel Team delivers a wide range of programmes and projects across Greater Manchester with the aim of encouraging and enabling the take up of active travel and supporting the growth of the Bee Network.

 Work ranges from projects that work directly with schools, pupils, parents/carers and the local community through to promoting and supporting new infrastructure being developed as part of the Bee Active Network.

What you’ll bring

 What you do and how you do it is important – whatever type of role you work in at TfGM – and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

 We’re looking for someone who has excellent excel, organisation, interpersonal and written communication skills and be proficient in producing, manging, and analysing surveys (via software such as Snap Surveys). 

As an Active Travel Support Officer you’ll be confident in setting up and maintaining administrative systems including finance, contacts, and project databases. You will be a strong team player who can also work effectively on an individual basis, have experience of working in partnership with local authority and the voluntary sector and interested in promoting the benefits of active and sustainable transport.

What we can offer you

We are looking for a new team member to join us on a fixed term contract until March 2026.

Our benefits include:

·       A salary of £26,029 - £27,841 per annum depending on skills and experience 

·       28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)

·       Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance

·       Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary

·       Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions

·       Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role

·       We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required

What's next?

 If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. When completing your application, please ensure that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit.

 Internal candidates - check with your line manager before applying for a secondment, to make sure you can be released from your substantive role.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.  

 For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

 Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.