Senior Programme Specialist

**Te Whiwhinga mahi - The Opportunity**

We're looking for a with a passion for walking and cycling to join our Active Modes Group as a Senior Programme Specialist. You’d be part of a small team which delivers initiatives and programmes that engage more people to walk and wheel, more often.

The role is diverse, and you will have the opportunity to contribute to innovative activation plans and community engagement to maximise utilisation of the cycle network, ongoing investment in bike hubs and organise cycle skills initiatives. It also includes initiatives to encourage end-to-end multimodal journeys.

You will also setup and deliver collaborative promotional campaigns and storytelling initiatives that help to positively support our work in walking and cycling initiatives as well as providing guidance to team members. Supporting the team to scale up delivery of community-based programmes that build capacity growth for cycling is part of your job as well as encouraging the use and growth of cycling infrastructure.

**Key Tasks will include**:

- Development and delivery of programmes, events and promotion that wrap around new cycling infrastructure to maximize benefits realisation. Additionally, efforts are made to support connections with public transport.

- Delivering programmes such as cycle skills training and community bike hubs, while actively identifying new opportunities to expand their reach and impact.

- Gaining trust, support and managing ongoing relationships with key stakeholders such as elected representatives and other community leaders to enable or co-design activities.

- Working on storytelling activities that positively promote walking and cycling in relation to the activation plans. This requires internal team collaboration but also means working with external contractors.

- Providing advice, guidance and aligning our work to teams designing, consulting or constructing capital projects or new public transport services, to help local people to walk and cycle more.

**Ko koe tēnei | About you**

We are seeking a champion communicator with exceptional relationship building skills, able to easily establish effective working relationships across wide communities.

Ideally, you'll have experience, knowledge and understanding of establishing partnerships, managing relationships and behavioural science as well as a genuine passion for promoting walking and cycling initiatives.

Experience in managing programmes, budgets as well as reporting and evaluating the effectiveness of projects are vital to your success in this role.

- A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline such as planning, engagement, community development or behavioural science.

- A bachelor’s degree in planning or Transport Planning (highly desirable)

- Project and/or programme management qualifications.

- 5 years’ experience in planning, transport planning, engagement or behavioural science related area. Including experience developing and managing regional programmes / projects. Including experience managing relationships with stakeholders and partners.

- Agile methodology qualifications

If you’re excited by the opportunity but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.

**Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation**

At AT, we embrace inclusion and fully support building a diverse workplace where people come first and we feel safe, respected, valued and supported, inclusive of our differences. Our values are more than just words - they are integral to everything we do. Manaakitanga - We care, Tiakitanga - Safe with us, Whanaungatanga - We connect, Auahatanga - Better, bolder, together.

In addition, we also offer:

- Investment in your professional development and training

- 25% discount on public transport across Auckland

- Paid parental and partner leave

- Study assistance and wellbeing benefits

- Professional memberships

Ka tiaki mātou i te hunga katoa ka eke waka i Tāmaki Makaurau.

We tiaki all those who use transport in Tāmaki Makaurau.

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