Road Safety Manager

Gloucestershire County Council; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Gloucestershire County Council as a Road Safety Manager, where you will lead efforts to enhance road safety across the county. You will oversee a team dedicated to significant safety initiatives, working towards ambitious goals and building partnerships to ensure the safety of all road users. Enjoy a flexible working environment while making a positive impact in the community.

Benefits

Flexible and agile working opportunities

30 days annual leave

Career development opportunities

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Significant relevant experience in implementing road safety measures.
• Persuasive and politically savvy skills.
• Experience in managing teams and overseeing transport data.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the expansion of the Road Safety team.
• Develop and secure funding for projects.
• Manage engineers and transport data team.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Influencing

Job description

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Road Safety Manager
• Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 5, 6th Floor
• Salary: £52,265 - £56,050 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 22/06/2025
• Job Requisition Number: 11007
• This post is open to job share
  
  
  

Are you ready to take up a vital role? Want to shape the future of Gloucestershire and create a safer, more accessible, and sustainable highways network?

About The Team & Role

Gloucestershire County Council is looking to recruit a Road Safety Manager. You will oversee expansion of the Road Safety team and be responsible for a rolling programme of investment in road safety. The Road Safety team forms part of the Traffic and Active Travel team encouraging walking and cycling and providing safer streets for all road users.

This role will offer you the opportunity to be involved in some of the most significant and ambitious service initiatives the sector has to offer, including working towards achieving the challenging goals of a 50% KSI reduction target by 2032 and Vision Zero by 2050.

You will use your significant experience and expertise in road safety to propose suitable solutions and provide advice.

Ideally you will work in the office two days a week to maximise the impact you will have in leading the team in working towards achieving its goals.

To see further why developing your career with Gloucestershire County Council can be hugely rewarding please see the link below.

https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/recruitment/highways-recruitment/

About You

As the Road Safety Manager, you will play a vital role in keeping the travelling public safe throughout the highway network in our county. You will achieve this by working with the Road Safety Partnership, promoting a Safe Systems approach to Road Safety, developing policy, securing funding for the team and its projects, championing the delivery of road safety measures and processes and supporting other parts of the council in ensuring that new developments and other highways schemes are safe for all users

You will manage engineers and oversee a transport data team. You will develop and secure political approval of budgets for Road Safety. You will spearhead road safety including overseeing the delivery of a range of measures, including a programme of Road Safety engineering schemes, ensuring that road safety audits are undertaken, the collection, use and the analysis of transport and road safety data.

Your vast communication, negotiation and influencing skills will aid you in building good working relationships with teams in the council, Council Members and partners in the Road Safety Partnership including the Police and Fire and Rescue to develop and agree policies and coordinate effective collaborative approaches to improving road safety.

To be considered, this role requires someone who is persuasive, politically savvy, and resilient. You will have significant relevant experience including the implementation of road safety measures.

About Us

As you’d expect, we offer an attractive package of benefits which makes a career in Local Government both flexible and rewarding.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for many 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.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 30 days annual leave
• 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 skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Nathaniel Davis via email at [e-mail]

Closing date: Sunday 22nd June 2025

Applicants will be shortlisted and interviewed during the advertisement period. As such the closing date may be altered subject to candidates being successful.

Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail.

Additional Information

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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.