Community Highway Officer

 It's an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council.  

Our vision is to help Staffordshire's economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county. 

• Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.    

We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into our network. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Transformation we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future. 

Our Community Highways team ensure local concerns are prioritised and addressed alongside strategic programmes of highway works - acting as highway ambassadors within communities and as advocates for local communities within the wider service.

In this role you will:

• support a community-based approach to the delivery of the highway service.
• Respond to highway enquiries, providing advice on budgetary, best practice and legislative constraints
• Work with elected members and delivery partners to develop a local works programme, identifying and collating priorities, commissioning delivery and ensuring contract compliance, quality and value for money.

The role will cover the Lichfield and/or Tamworth area with an office base in Lichfield, however, flexible working arrangements are available.

You will have:

• experience in the delivery of highway work programmes, together with a working knowledge of highway related legislation, regulations, and best practice.
• the ability to work independently, effectively prioritising  a complex workload.
• ability to manage a complex workload and respond flexibly to changing circumstances.
• excellent relationship management skills.   
• the ability to regularly travel within a geographical area (work van provided).

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

For further information about the role please contact Community Highway Managers: Garry Hunt, at: garry.hunt@staffordshire.gov.uk

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. 

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to  Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.