Active Travel Officer

This advert is open to both Internal and External applicants.

This is a fixed term post for 18 months.

Do you have a passion for being active and to support others in being able to travel around our city safely, on foot or by bike?

If so, we may have just the role for you.

We are currently looking for someone who is able to promote active travel to residents within our small, friendly and busy team.

You will support the Senior Active Travel Officer in delivering the work of the team.

We have ambitious plans for the future development of our walking and cycling routes in order to encourage more walking and cycling trips as part of a wider ambition tackle the climate emergency, clean up our air, support active and healthy lifestyles and facilitate improved economic opportunities and growth.

We work with schools, businesses and developers as well as colleagues from other teams and partners such as Active Travel England in order to achieve our vision.

We offer hybrid working - a mix of office, on-site and home-working - over a five day working week.

Very occasional evening and weekend work may be required. Full support will be given to you to settle into your role and to achieve your objectives. The post is 37 hours per week and is initially fixed term until 30th September 2025. Please do take a look through the attached job description and person specification, and contact us at transportation@stoke.gov.uk if you have any questions or would like a chat about the role.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a unitary authority employing approximately 4,600 staff who deliver 700 services to more than 260,000 residents. Our city comprises of six towns: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall. We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. We have undergone significant changes over the last few years. New ways of working have already transformed many service areas and we are determined to continue to develop more innovative approaches to ensure that we can maximise the benefits of transformation.

Our city

Although the 13th largest city in the UK, Stoke-on-Trent is rapidly outstripping a number of parts of the country with our economic growth and recovery.

Stoke-on-Trent is a city with a strong sense of civic pride - we've been voted the kindest city in the UK - and a place where you'll receive a hugely warm welcome. We have a rich and diverse culture, steeped in our prestigious industrial heritage as the celebrated 'world capital of ceramics'. But we don't just want to celebrate our proud past - we firmly believe that Stoke-on-Trent's best years are ahead of it. We are determined to raise aspirations and match them with high-quality education and health provision, as well as improved opportunities to secure fulfilling and well-paid work. Through uniting social and economic opportunities, we are maximising the full power of the city council as a secure and steadfast institution within the city.

When you work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council you'll be helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of our residents. We'll provide you with support, learning opportunities and flexible working options and some amazing benefits including; a competitive salary, generous holidays, an excellent defined local authority benefit pension scheme, annual leave purchase scheme, cycle to work schemes just to name a few. We also have access to lifestyle benefits which offer a wide range of discounts such as family days out, travel, retail and many more.

Our commitment to you

Vibrancy and diversity are two of Stoke-on-Trent's greatest assets. A city founded on creative endeavour should value and celebrate the multitude of voices, ideas and identities that shape its culture. We are committed to creating a culture which is truly inclusive, where all staff feel valued, listened to, supported and able to do their work to the best of their abilities at all times. And we must ensure that our decisions and policies nurture and empower communities across our city and do not inadvertently disadvantage groups and individuals that we want to help to thrive.

Our approach to Equality and Diversity is an invitation to all our communities to work with and for us so we can continue to improve how we deliver services residents need.

Our employee networks are inclusive, open forums for colleagues with similar lived experiences. They allow staff to meet, support and mentor each other, alongside being a voice for under-represented groups to advise and support the organisation when developing policies and services.