School Travel Project Support Officer

Job description

Fixed term contract (external applicants)/ Secondment opportunity (internal employees) until 31st March 2026

The School Travel Team is seeking to recruit a Project Support Officer to join our friendly team, who are passionate about walking, cycling and road safety. We are looking for a reliable team player, with enthusiasm and creativity, who can provide excellent administrative and project support to help us deliver the Borough’s exciting School Travel and ambitious School Streets programmes.

Purpose of role:

• provide administrative and project support for implementation and evaluation of various school travel projects.
• use excellent communication skills, verbal and written, to raise awareness of the programmes, engage with and provide information to schools.
• support delivery of workshops, events and campaigns to achieve project outcomes and outputs.

The Project Support Officer will work directly and indirectly with schools, to promote and encourage safe, active and healthy travel for the school journey. They must be able to work as part of a team and also independently when required, using their own initiative and managing their workload efficiently to meet the team’s targets.

They will have experience of:

• supporting the management and delivery of projects,
• managing activities with multiple deadlines and various stakeholders,
• organising and delivering workshops and/or training events,
• engaging people of different ages and backgrounds to deliver project outcomes,
• supporting the collection and monitoring of data,
• using all Microsoft Office applications, in particular Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Publisher.

Transport Planning at Ealing Council:

Ealing Council wants to make the Borough a great place to live, work and spend time. The Transport Planning Service develops the council’s transport strategy and works with schools, businesses and communities. The Service delivers projects to ensure that people can travel in a safe and convenient way, encouraging them to walk, cycle and take public transport. Our work supports the council’s aim to become carbon neutral, as a borough and an organisation, by 2030.

The council’s Transport Strategy aims to build a positive legacy to enhance the environment and improve public health, by focussing on ‘active travel’ (walking and cycling) plus public transport. We will create ‘Healthy Streets’ that seek to reduce pollution and increase physical activity rates.

Further information

This role is subject to Ealing Council’s enhanced vetting process.

This role is deemed customer facing and as such you must have a command of spoken English which is sufficient to enable you to effectively perform the role. This requirement relates to Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016.

The position is for a fixed period until 31st March 2026. External applicants will be offered a fixed-term contract and existing Ealing council employees will be offered the opportunity of a secondment. LBE employees must ensure a secondment release form is signed by their line manager before applying and emailed to HRSSC-RecruitmentTeam@ealing.gov.uk by the application closing date.

Job share will be considered.

Instructions for completing your application

When completing your online application form, the Supporting Information must relate to the Person Specification in the Role Profile. Please give clear examples of how your experience, skills and abilities meet the required criteria. You can use examples from your previous jobs, voluntary and/or community work, spare time activities and/or training.

Location and brief description: Hybrid working – remotely and 2/3 days based at Perceval House or at schools in Ealing. Flexibility is required to enable delivery of the services.

Role Profile

Secondment Release Form