Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Overview of project/role

We are the Road Safety Strategy team, part of Insights & Direction in the Safety, Health and Environment department at TfL. We define the measurable actions that TfL and partner organisations need to take to reach our Vision Zero target of no one being killed or seriously injured on London’s Roads by 2041.

We use data-led approaches to complete this work. We hold the business and partner organisations to account for actions they have agreed to and lead projects to develop bespoke, focused insights and help us reach this vision.

 This policy role exists to set, assess, and extend the actions which will help us to meet Vision Zero, once the current actions are complete in 2024. It will require an understanding of data and trends, a willingness to consider new concepts and ideas and an ability to challenge current thinking.

Policy work is often political, and briefings for political and senior internal stakeholders will often be required. You will also lead direct workstreams within a pillar of the Safe System framework to help get us back on track to meet our Vision Zero goal.

The team sits adjacent to teams that look after safety strategy for Public Transport Safety and Construction Safety, and there is an opportunity in future to complete pieces of work for these teams to broaden your understanding of our strategy. This role provides an exciting opportunity to make a positive impact and truly shape the future direction of safety, health and environment at TfL and ultimately across London.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the vision, strategy and priorities for a theme (focus on top risks and issues to achieving our Safety and wider outcomes) of Safety across TfL, including target setting. Take the lead on large workstreams within a theme, managing these to ensure they form a joined-up part of the coherent whole. Work with the business and SMEs to develop this.
• Support the Senior Strategy Manager in setting safety policy for this area. Take the lead on workstreams within a theme, writing and developing content, securing agreement from business and SME stakeholders and arranging updates on or uploads to the SHE Management System portal.
• Develop robust evidence bases to support interventions to deliver the vision for their workstreams and sub-themes. Work with the Data & Insight team and wider inputs to ensure these are robust and sustainable.
• Carry out delivery planning of interventions to establish clear action plans to move the organisation towards the vision.
• Plan, conduct and monitor trials to identify new ways of driving improved performance, working with third parties as needed to drive this. Support the Senior Strategy Manager to do this and lead workstreams within the broader theme
• Take part in best practice sharing sessions with peers in external agencies or companies and use these to deliver planning within TfL. Share the experience of interventions TfL has delivered to drive safety across London and beyond.
• Establish measures to monitor performance. Establish targets and monitor performance against them, challenging colleagues where targets are missed.
• Participate in consultations and other forums with external policy-making bodies to ensure TfL’s voice is heard.
• Be a champion and advocate for safety, health & environment in everything they do, role modelling what it means to make SHE personal.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience 

Skills

• The ability to develop credibility and influence stakeholders
• Strong collaboration skills, including working across organisational boundaries Skills in setting policy frameworks
• Good ability to understand performance data and trends, and translate this into priorities
• Good ability to initiate and effect business and behaviour change design
• Good ability to work in a highly pressurised environment under very tight time constraints and high-quality standards
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to write strategic and analytical reports

Knowledge

• Good understanding of Mayor's Transport Strategy and TfL's business priorities
• Good knowledge of how to form a strategy and progress it into action in a complex organisation
• Some understanding of the political framework in which TfL operates
• Good knowledge of TfL’s SHE Management system
• Good understanding of engineering, operational and business management requirements in a safety-critical environment

Experience

• Proven experience of setting visions and ambitions in large, complex organisation
• Experience in operating at a senior level and influencing director discussions around the shape of the business.

Application Process 

• Please apply using your CV and a two-page covering letter
• Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV and cover letter
• PDF format preferred, and do not include any photographs or images

Equality, diversity and inclusion We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantees an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.   

Benefits   In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of the role but mostly include the following:   Final salary pension scheme  Free travel for you on the TfL network  Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home, or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays  TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)  Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme Retail, health, leisure and travel offers  Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible; however, some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.