Senior Transport Planner

Fixed Term / Secondment Opportunity – 2 Year

Hackney is one of the most dynamic and progressive local authorities in the UK. We are a resilient, vibrant, and creative borough in the heart of London, with strong, diverse communities and a powerful set of shared values.

Over the past twenty years, the Council has built up first-class services, outstanding public infrastructure, and a reputation for excellence, innovation, and ambition. We are leading the way on essential work such as our fight for equity in Hackney with a particular focus on becoming an actively anti-racist borough. But the work doesn’t stop there, we are proactive in our approach to bringing fairness to all aspects of life including gender, neurodiversity and across the poverty divide.

About Us:

It is an exciting time to be working in Hackney’s Street Scene team. The team is proud to be driving forward an innovative and ambitious multi-million-pound Local Implementation Plan to bring the borough closer to its Climate Action Plan transport goals for 2030. Hackney is one of London’s most vibrant and diverse boroughs, and we have immense pride in our communities and our services. If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values to achieve the best for our businesses and residents, we want to hear from you. 

The Role:

We are seeking a high-calibre, proactive Senior Transport Planner to take a strategic and operational lead role within our dynamic team. Operating at a senior grade, you will be a lead officer for Hackney Council in your specialist areas, managing a complex range of transportation planning work from initial conception through to implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. 

Unlike junior positions, this role carries significant accountability. You will act as an expert spokesperson for the Council, regularly engaging with senior stakeholders, multi-disciplinary teams, and elected members. Crucially, you will have the potential to take responsibility for the direct management, training, and performance of up to three staff members, ensuring workloads are prioritised effectively to deliver statutory obligations in a customer-focused manner. 

Key Areas of Work & Responsibility:

In this role, you will initiate, develop, and deliver strategic policy initiatives to embed healthy streets improvements across the borough, ensuring projects are customer-focused and meet wider corporate priorities. You will take the lead on formulating, managing, and progressing major work programmes funded via our multi-million-pound Local Implementation Plan, whilst also progressing the strategic transport planning in Hackney’s to support sustainable travel. 

A significant part of your portfolio will involve leading on complex policy frameworks, including traffic management interventions and the critical development of movement and exemption policies across our transport network. You will inform and progress complex engineering and planning schemes, including gateway improvements across our main road

and transport networks, acting on your own initiative to meet strict deadlines. Additionally, you will oversee Streetscene data management by directing the collation, analysis, and management of technical transport and engagement data, using evidence-based analysis to provide guidance on service related decisions and report on measurable results. 

About You:

You have extensive knowledge of up-to-date legislative, policy, and procedural frameworks within transport planning, backed by a strong track record of working at a senior level within the industry. You possess a clear understanding of performance management techniques and have the proven ability to supervise staff, develop team members, and cultivate a collaborative working environment. 

As an exceptional communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, you are confident writing high-level committee reports and consultation documents in a clear style, and you are comfortable presenting to elected officials, occasionally outside of normal working hours. You are highly organised with strong project management capabilities, capable of tracking schedules and budgets, and you are comfortable utilising data systems to drive service delivery. While advanced data manipulation skills using Excel lookup and pivot systems are expected, familiarity with GIS will be a considerable benefit, and membership of, or eligibility for membership of, a relevant professional body is highly desirable. 

As a Council, our most outstanding asset is our staff, who are highly dedicated to serving our residents and committed to our goals as an organisation.

If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values so we achieve the best for our residents, please click on the apply button below.

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Closing date for applications: 12 July 2026 (22.59)

Interview date: 24 & 29 July 2026

We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.

Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under represented in our workforce.

The Council has a dedicated employment support service (Hackney Works), which offers Hackney residents guidance in relation to applying for jobs. If you are thinking about applying for a job, please contact the Hackney Works team to find out what support is available: hackneyworks@hackney.gov.uk