Schools & Active Travel Co-ordinator

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Schools & Active Travel Co-ordinator
• Job Location:                     Shire Hall Complex, Gloucester 
• Salary:                              £37,280 - £40,777 per annum 
• Hours per Week:                37.00 
• Contract Type:                   Permanent 
• Closing Date:                    14/09/2025 
• Job Requisition Number:    12081 
• This post is open to job share

Ready for the next challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, self-driven individual, to join our high impact Thinktravel team, as we accelerate our service delivery to meet the Council’s expanding Active Travel, Road Safety, Health and Net Zero commitments.

Thinktravel are an integral part of the Traffic and Transport service, within the council’s award winning Environment, Economy and Infra-structure Directorate, with Gloucestershire County Council.

We are seeking a School and Active Travel Co-ordinator.  

About The Team & Role:
The Thinktravel team is dedicated to integrating active travel (walking and wheeling) into our daily routines, which we believe makes for healthier, safer, greener, and more active sustainable communities, across Gloucestershire. We do this through the delivery of our core services, School Crossing Patrols, and Bikeability, alongside an expanding Active Travel behaviour change programme.

This role is pivotal in leading the School Crossing Patrol Service alongside delivering and promoting priority educational active travel and road safety initiatives accessible to all, which aim to create new active travel habits with a focus on the school run and onward commute.

About you:
You will be an experienced team manager, with strong organisational, analytical and relationship management skills which allow you to prioritise workloads and ensure service levels are maintained and improved.  To be successful, you will be adaptable to change especially in response to sensitive road safety concerns and changing political landscapes. 

Using your understanding of local government educational institutions, you will be able to build rapport and effectively manage multi-disciplinary teams, stakeholders and cross sector service partnerships.

Being an excellent communicator, influencer and creative thinker, you will be leading on developing and delivering practical innovative active travel engagement activities with schools, workplaces and communities. 

Summary:

If you have the skills and experience to co-ordinate and work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting active travel education and behaviour change services and initiatives, plus the passion and drive to make a real difference we want to hear from you. 

Your work will include:

Co-ordinating the Thinktravel's School Crossing Patrol Service across Gloucestershire's County Council school sites and associated walking initiatives.  

Support the Thinktravel service in delivering existing and new sustainable and active travel initiatives with partner organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors, with a focus on education. 

Acting as a positive advocate for change with a diverse group of stakeholders including Schools, Gloucestershire's Road Safety Partnership, Modeshift, Active Gloucestershire and Move More. 

Using experience in project and event management, governance/stakeholder engagement together with marketing & communications to design and deliver walking and wheeling events linked to curriculum-based learning, travel planning, road safety and behaviour change.

About us

All GCC employees benefit from the knowledge that the work they do can directly improve the lives of the people of Gloucestershire; we believe that by doing so they deserve to be further rewarded.

• • Flexible and agile working opportunities 
  • 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
  • An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
  • Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
  • Career development and qualification opportunities
  • Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
  • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
  • An in-house Occupational Health service
  • Employee discount scheme
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
  • Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network

How to apply

 If you feel you have the skill, desire and experience required to make a positive difference, please submit an application before the closing date of Sunday 14th September 2025 at midnight by clicking on the “Apply Now” button. 

For further enquiries regarding the role please contact: thinktravel@gloucestershire.gov.uk  

For an informal conversation please ask to speak to Nathaniel Davis (Traffic and Active Travel Manager) or Jo Atkins (thinktravel Manager) when emailing the Thinktravel Team on the above address. 

Short-listed candidates will be contacted by email and invited to interview.

Interviews are likely to be held weeks commencing 22nd and 29th September or 6th October 2025. 

Due to a highly anticipated number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised closing date.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Schools & Active Travel Co-ordinator - Job Profile

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. 

This Position is subject to a DBS check. 

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.