Officer, Business, Operations Manager

Are you passionate about increasing access to and participation in walking, wheeling and cycling across Greater Manchester?

Are you seeking a varied role which provides the opportunity to work across a range of projects that will benefit residents across the region?

The Active Travel Team at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) work collaboratively with the Active Travel Network Director to deliver a comprehensive programme of behaviour change activity that supports Greater Manchester's ambitious plans to achieve a step-change in the proportion of trips made by active travel modes.

As an Active Travel Officer, you will work with a wide, diverse range of stakeholders including Local Authorities, partners, suppliers and community organisations to develop and deliver a range of projects that will increase and improve access to walking, wheeling, cycling and other interventions to make a positive difference to people’s lives.

In this role, you will manage a variety of projects ensuring that project plans, activities and interventions are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard.

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This role sits within the Active Travel Team, part of the wider successful Cycling and Walking Programme team at TfGM making a fundamental difference to how people move around Greater Manchester, both now and in the future.

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact.

At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt. You will bring a real enthusiasm for active travel as well as experience of developing and delivering interventions and projects to influence and change travel behaviours.

You will have a great understanding of the benefits of and barriers to active travel, and the ability to develop and deliver measures to enable people to take up walking, wheeling and cycling.

Experience in reporting on and monitoring the impact of live projects through the collection of data and case studies helping to build a case for future investment is key, as is being able to listen and to communicate clearly and effectively to a range of audiences.

This is a permanent role to work within the Active Travel Team with a salary of £40,650-£45,107. This is an exciting opportunity to join us at a critical time as we work to deliver an integrated transport network across Greater Manchester with active travel at its core.

If you think you have what it takes and want to join a dynamic organisation at the heart of the city-region we would really like to hear from you At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.

We are happy to talk flexible working to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:
Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.

Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.

Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.

Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events.

Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.

Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website What's next?

To apply please submit your CV and complete your application ensuring that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit.

Our short‑listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on your CV. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

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