Safety Strategy Manager

Role Overview

• Support the vision, strategy and priorities for Safe Streets (focus on top risks and issues to achieving our Safety and wider outcomes) across TfL, including target setting.
• Take the lead on large workstreams, managing these to ensure they form a joined-up part of the coherent whole.
• Work with the business and SMEs to develop this.
• Support the Senior Strategy Manager in setting safety policy for this area.
• Take the lead on workstreams within a theme, writing and developing content, securing agreement from business and SME stakeholders and arranging update on or upload to the SHE Management System portal.
• Develop robust evidence bases to support interventions to deliver the vision for their workstreams and sub-themes.
• Work with the Data & Insight team and wider inputs to ensure these are robust and sustainable.
• Carry out delivery planning of interventions to establish clear action plans to move the organisation towards the vision.
• Plan, conduct and monitor trials to identify new ways of driving improved performance, working with third parties as needed to drive this.
• Support the Senior Strategy Manager to do this and lead workstreams within the broader theme.
• Take part in best practice sharing sessions with peers in external agencies or companies and use these to delivery planning within TfL.
• Share experience of interventions TfL has delivered to drive safety across London and beyond.
• Establish measures to monitor performance.
• Establish targets and monitor performance against them, challenging colleagues where targets are missed.
• Respond to consultations and participate in external policy making forums to ensure TfL’s voice is heard.
• Be a champion and advocate for safety, health & environment in everything you do, role modelling what it means to make SHE personal.

Requirements

• Good understanding of Mayor's Transport Strategy and TfL's business priorities (Desirable)
• Good knowledge of how to form strategy and progress it into action in a complex organisation (Essential)
• Good understanding of TfL street design policy (Highly desirable)
• Some understanding of the political framework in which TfL operates (Desirable)
• Good understanding of engineering, operational and business management requirements in a safety critical environment (Desirable)
• The ability to develop credibility and influence stakeholders (Essential)
• Strong collaboration skills, including working across organisational boundaries (Essential)
• Skills in setting policy frameworks (Essential)
• Good ability to understand performance data and trends and translate this into priorities (Essential)
• Good ability to initiate and effect business and behaviour change design (Desirable)
• Good ability to work in a highly pressurised environment to very tight time constraints and high quality (Essential)
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to write strategic and analytical reports (Essential)
• Proven experience of setting visions and ambitions in large complex organisation (Desirable)
• Experience in operating at a senior level and influencing director discussions around the shape of the business. (Desirable)

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel