1 Month Contract with a local Authority

Job Purpose

• The role involves supporting senior leadership in driving the continuous improvement and efficiency of the parking department through strategic planning, effective leadership, budget oversight, and governance. It includes leading the timely and budget-conscious delivery of complex parking projects, managing funding sources, and coordinating with internal teams and external partners such as design contractors and consultants. The position also requires monitoring progress against evolving improvement programmes, reporting on project developments, ensuring successful project completion, and evaluating outcomes.
  
  

Key Duties/Accountabilities

• Ensure the baseline financial performance is established and communicated before the commencement of the project and that the systems processes are in place to measure the impact of the project against the initial position.
  
• Prepare Conditions of Contract and Specification using Standard Form necessary and prepare Bills of Quantities and Schedules of Rates and other tender documents relating to the contract or agreement with the client / customer / specifier
  
• Prepare briefs for professional services for the appointment of consultants / contractors and assist in preparing associated agreements as required.
  
• Take personal day to day responsibility for the delivery of services, the design, control and completion of projects and the achievement of professional standards within own area of work whether work is undertaken by self, own staff or sub-contractors.
  
• Work alongside the Head of Service in developing amongst staff flexibility in working, a quality management approach to work, a customer care attitude to customers, sensitivity to business opportunities, and an awareness of the factors on which the group success depends
  
• Manage and lead staff to achieve a high performance and effective operation delivery including developing and improving staff capabilities.
  
• Lead on recruitment and in the training of staff.
  
  

Essential Experience Required.

• Excellent experience and understanding of best practice in Parking Design and Delivery of Controlled Parking Zones and other factors that contribute to the delivery of cost effective schemes that are successful in the long term
  
• Experience of data led parking analysis and delivery within a local authority
  
  

Essential Qualifications Required

• Educated to degree level with significant experience in highways and parking engineering OR An appropriate technical qualification with significant experience in highways and parking engineering
  
• Relevant project related qualification – Microsoft Project or Prince 2 equivalent
  
  

Additional information to note

• This role is 35 working hours per week.
  

The role closes on 07/07/25