Senior Consultant - Business Case Transport Economics London/Leeds/Manchester
Steer, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are seeking to recruit a senior transport planner/economist, who will be part of our Business Case and Transport Economics team developing business cases and undertaking appraisal and evaluation for transport and other projects of all scales, complexities, and stages of development
As well as technical skills, the candidate should have aspirations to manage medium/large projects, as well as contribute to work-winning.
Key Accountabilities
The candidate will work as part of a team to complement our existing business case offer and will be required to:
- Contribute effectively to projects, undertaking technical work and contributing to reporting;
- Contribute effectively to proposals and engage in business development;
- Help build the team’s technical capability in newer and emerging areas within business case development and appraisal (e.g. wider economic impacts; ‘leveling up’;
- Help mentor and supervise junior staff; and
- In due course, manage medium/large size projects within the team, and workstreams within larger projects.
Requirements
- Be passionate about the role of transport in supporting local, regional, and national policy objectives;
- Have experience with economic appraisal, an understanding of TAG, and experience specifying and interrogating transport model outputs to support appraisal;
- Have Excel and analytical skills;
- Have good written and verbal communications skills, including:
- The ability to back up opinions with well-constructed, evidenced arguments; and
- The ability to confidently explain complex analysis to non-specialists.
Benefits
The team you will be joining is based across our three UK offices in London, Leeds and Manchester and there will be opportunities to work with colleagues based in our offices overseas, in particular Italy, India, North and South America. Our social and cultural responsibilities form an important part of our culture and values. We believe that actions speak louder than words, and therefore have annual measurable targets across all social impact areas, particularly EDI and sustainability. We have also committed to successfully operate as a Net Zero Carbon company by 2025.
We offer a competitive package of benefits including private medical insurance and health screening, life assurance, group income protection, company pension scheme, EAP, ability to buy and sell annual leave days, Season Ticket Loan, Share Incentive Plan, up to 5 days for volunteering activities and a discretionary bonus scheme.
Steer is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or gender. Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.