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Salary: £50,512 - £53,584 a year plus £3,203 car benefit allowance pro rata
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Fixed Term until April 2026
This position is available as a secondment opportunity until April 2026. If you are a permanent LBC employee, you must have written approval (an email will suffice) from your manager prior to applying and a copy will need to be submitted with your application. Please note: we will not be able to proceed with your application form without your manager’s permission.
We are looking for a Team Manger to join our Passenger Transport Unit. This is an exciting role where you’ll provide operational & strategic leadership and direction for the Council’s PTU operational and contract services to ensure that the end to end service can meet the statutory and operational requirements for long term sustainable services.
- Development of fully costed staff structures to take the PTU service forward
- Lead on the procurement of new and contracted services with the PTU contract manager
- Review and overhaul existing transport policies for statutory school transport, post 16, adults and mainstream travel services
- Development of service model to ensure that service provision is the most effective for the council, its residents and clients.
You’ll lead, manage and motivate the PTU, operations and contract teams, ensuring that any developed SLA’s, external contract requirements, and statutory obligations are met within the service.
About you
- Commissioning/Procurement
- Passenger Transport
- Project delivery for cross department/service transformation or development projects
- Developing and implementing policy and service level agreement in public or private sector
You’ll have experience of experience of securing and managing change, using performance management techniques and performing an operational support role. You’ll also have substantial experience of budget management including financial planning budgetary monitoring and income generation, at Cost Centre Manager level.
We need someone with excellent communication skills with the ability to deal with all levels of staff tactfully and sensitively.
You’ll have in depth business development and trading services skills, including business case development, delivery and evaluation.
This is an exciting role where you’ll have the opportunity to develop your existing understanding of, transportation and environmental sustainability related legislation, issues and practices, including their integration and co-ordination.
We do ask that you have a relevant degree and/or professional or management qualification, or equivalent experience and are able and willing to attend Committee and Council meetings and meetings with other interests outside normal working hours.
About us
Our ambitious Luton 2040 Vision – that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty – is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents.
The people of Luton depend heavily on this council – and that means our workforce! Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision?
Application Process
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
Benefits
- From 25 to 32 days’ annual leave: linked to length of service and grade
- Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave
- Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area
- Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 per cent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant
- Generous relocation package: up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility)
- Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home
- Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns
- Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways
- Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons
- Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel
How to apply
We understand that job applications take time and effort, but a high-quality application shows that you are professional with a good attention to detail. The recruiting manager may receive a number of applications for each job advertised so you want yours to stand out!
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