Transport Scheduling Officer

Nottingham City Council; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Job summary

Nottingham City Council is seeking individuals for a permanent, full-time role based at Woolsthorpe Depot to support the Passenger Transport Service. The position focuses on contract compliance, data management and processing travel-related applications in a dynamic environment.

You will handle routes, schedules, and procurement data while liaising with schools, operators and parents. A DBS check is required; hybrid working may be available for this role.

Qualifications

• Good IT skills to provide data, spreadsheets and performance reporting.
• Background of transport or key enablers to service delivery.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• An understanding of Safeguarding and role of care services provided by the contract.
• Experience in contract monitoring and compliance.
• Ability to be creative, identify problems and work to create solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Passenger Transport Service in commissioned transport provision.
• Assist to ensure contract compliance for all commissioned transport provision.
• Prepare specifications, schedules, routes and data for commissioning transport services.
• Maintain routes and data changes with pupil referral requests.
• Process travel pass applications and personal travel budget mileage contributions and parent contributions.
• Prepare contracts, service agreements and specifications including procurement requirements.

Skills

IT skills

Transport background

Excellent communication

Safeguarding awareness

Contract monitoring

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: Full-time 37 hours start times between 07:30 and 08:30 due to shift patterns

Worker Type: Onsite Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £27,709 (Level one) rising to £28,896 (Level three) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location:Woolsthorpe Depot, Building 5 Woolsthorpe Depot Woolsthorpe Close Nottingham NG8 3JD

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

This role is provide support to the Passenger Transport Service in the provision of a range of commissioned transport services.

Assisting to ensure contract compliance for all commissioned transport provision, both internally and externally provided, preparing, specifications, schedules, routes and data necessary to commission transport related services and maintenance of routes throughout the year as and when they change with additional pupil referral requests.

The role also includes the processing travel pass applications, and personal travel budget milage contributions and parent contributions and associated administration tasks.

The role will help to prepare contracts, service agreements and specifications, including all procurement requirements regarding schedules, routes and other relevant data. Be responsible for the upkeep of digital database solutions and help to maintain service delivery and financial performance of all contracts commissioned.

This role will also be a point of contact for schools, external operators and parents in relation to travel queries.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Good IT skills to provide data, spreadsheets and performance reporting
• Background of transport or key enablers to service delivery
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An understanding of Safeguarding and role of care services provided by the contract
• Experience in contract monitoring and compliance
• Ability to be creative, identify problems and work to create solutions

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional informationfor applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Nicola Bird, by email at [e-mail]

Closing Date:

4th November 2026

Interviews will be held:

TBC

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