Manchester City Council aims to be in the top-flight of world-class cities, with a dynamic economy and highly skilled people; to be well-connected, limiting climate change; and helping all of us feel safe and live well in our attractive and welcoming city.

With a clear mission to make Manchester a healthy, green, socially just city, where everyone can thrive. Our target is to become a zero carbon city by 2038 – twelve years ahead of the Government’s target for the UK!  This is our opportunity to rebalance the current use of city centre space, promote sustainable and active travel, improve air quality, plant more trees, end fuel poverty and improve the environment across all the city’s neighbourhoods. In doing so, we can provide a better quality of life for all our residents and help our city to grow sustainably.

To help realise these ambitions, we are now seeking a Strategic Lead, Sustainable Travel to report directly to Hayley Fails, the Assistant Director Infrastructure Environment. This new and exciting role will be responsible for incorporating strategic transport systems including active travel, local area energy plans and infrastructure to support the city’s zero carbon ambitions. You will be passionate for working with and influencing colleagues, officers, members and stakeholders locally, regionally and nationally; alongside a strong grasp of the emerging policy and funding landscape, ensuring that Manchester maximises the opportunities available to it. 

Working across the entire authority, and throughout the wider Greater Manchester region, you will be comfortable with taking big ideas and turning these into tangible, deliverable plans that contribution to our organisational objectives. You will be a strategic leader, with a demonstrable track record of programme delivery; recognising the need to empower and raise the profile of your new and emerging team, ensuring that all understand their impact upon the lives of our diverse communities here in Manchester. 

We are a diverse city with huge ambition, innovation and drive. Our ethos is about fairness and equality, so that all people in our city can benefit from the opportunities that our economic growth brings. Working in Manchester gives you the chance to do things that you would not get to do in other places, and it is a hugely exciting place to live and work. 
If this sounds like you, and you hold the relevant experience to further develop our environment, clean air, transport and infrastructure ambitions we would love to speak to you. 

For more information click on Apply.

For a confidential conversation contact Rebecca Hopkin (07827 098 173) or Gary Evans (07809 195 593) or Marnie Lodhi (07795 654 812) at GatenbySanderson. 

Closing date: 13th May 2024 at 10am