Location
5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG

Hours
36 hours per week

Salary
£46,006 per annum

About the Role
As a Senior Transport Planner at Camden Council, you will play a key role in delivering the ambitious goals of the Camden Transport Strategy by managing neighbourhood-based Healthy Streets projects. These projects include localised safety schemes, Healthy School Streets, low-traffic neighbourhood initiatives, bus priority, walking, cycling, traffic reduction, and public realm improvements. You will be responsible for the full project lifecycle, including planning, feasibility, community engagement, consultation, report writing, stakeholder management, monitoring, funding, budgeting, and financial controls.

Working within the Safe & Healthy Streets team, which is recognised for its leadership in Healthy Streets project delivery, you will help ensure schemes are delivered on time and within budget. You will collaborate across departments such as planning, regeneration, sustainability, highways, and parking to align projects with wider urban planning and sustainability initiatives, including Camden’s Climate Action Plan.

Your role will also involve working closely with internal teams, Transport for London, the Greater London Authority, and local communities to shape projects that support Camden’s wider goals of tackling the climate emergency and creating vibrant public spaces. This is an opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking team making radical social change a reality in one of London’s most progressive boroughs.

Experience
- Proven project management skills with the ability to deliver transport infrastructure projects on time and to budget
- Experience working on healthy streets and strategic transport planning projects
- Some experience providing input on planning applications and working on projects of significant size, value, and complexity
- Good partnership working skills and ability to develop effective stakeholder relations, including liaising and negotiating with external organisations
- Experience supporting or leading aspects of large projects or programmes, including project governance and information management
- Strong analytical, report writing, and presenting skills

About you
- Collaborative and relationship-focused with well-developed interpersonal skills
- Ability to provide senior leaders with confidence and assurance that projects meet time, cost, and quality criteria
- Capacity to communicate clearly and sensitively during community engagement and with elected members
- Demonstrates initiative and a proactive, forward-thinking approach
- Good political awareness and sensitivity
- Ability to support and oversee the workload of junior team members and consultants, with an understanding of industry consultancy operations

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Knowledge of the policy and statutory framework locally, regionally, and nationally relevant to transport planning and Healthy Streets initiatives
- Appreciation of key streetscape design issues including accessibility and sustainability
- Understanding of inclusive community engagement and effective communication strategies