Job Introduction
This is a diverse and exciting role, delivering active travel projects and marketing campaigns targeting parents, pupils and staff at schools.
The Connectivity Support Team work countywide with schools, businesses and in the community to deliver active travel projects. Our projects aim to increase active travel, provide training and raise awareness of the health and well being benefits this can bring to individuals and the environment. Example projects include:
- Bikeability
- INTO Walking & Cycling
- Air Aware
Main Responsibility
You will engage with a variety of stakeholders, parents, school staff and members of the public. The journey to school is a key part of the school day, it is an opportunity for parents and pupils to be active, however this is often a missed opportunity. This role is a key part of promoting that change of behaviour.
Key aims are:
- Increase active travel to school
- Improve air quality, and raise awareness
- Collect and analyse mode of travel used to target activities
- Increase the number of schools with an active travel plan
You will help to achieve this through:
- Annual active travel campaigns and initiatives for schools
- Developing, implementing, and supporting Walking Buses
- Providing training opportunities
- Developing training and lesson plans for teachers
- Delivering PHSE and workshops for pupils to support campaigns
- Writing and monitoring of School Travel Plans
This role is not classroom based, however it is part of the role to engage directly with students on occasion for example during PHSE, assemblies, events and workshops.
This is a fun and rewarding role, with a serious message, working to support schools to achieve benefits to the environment, school local communities, support student independence and increase health and wellbeing of pupils.
The Ideal Candidate
You'll have:
- experience of working with schools or within education/training, delivering outcome-based initiatives.
- experience of developing resources, working directly with children and students up to age 16.
- experience of setting and achieving targets and project outcomes.
- be a confident communicator, you'll have ability to sell the benefits of travel behaviour change to a variety of audiences.
- have a passion for encouraging and promoting all forms of active and sustainable travel.
The role is a 2 year fixed role full time, term time.
For more information about the wider team and this role please contact Cath Stephenson 07855 336944 or email cath.stephenson@staffordshire.gov.uk.
Interview dates are planned for week beginning Monday 27th February 2023
About Staffordshire County Council
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 a range of benefits.
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 Silver 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.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
