Active Travel Officer
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Wirral Council is a place where your work truly makes a difference. Employees are empowered to “#BeTheDifference” and help improve life for residents across one of the happiest and most welcoming areas in the UK. With its stunning coastline, vibrant communities, and ambitious vision for the future, Wirral offers an exceptional setting to grow your career and feel valued every day. If you’re looking for a role where you can thrive, develop, and make real impact, Wirral Council is the perfect place to apply.
Active Travel Officer x 2
Fixed Term – 12 months
Are you passionate about making a real difference to how people travel, improving health, and creating safer, greener communities?
Wirral Council is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Active Travel Officer to help drive behaviour change across the borough, encouraging more residents, schools and businesses to choose walking, cycling and other sustainable modes of travel.
About the Role:
This is a dynamic, community-facing role where you will design and deliver targeted programmes and initiatives that promote safer, more sustainable travel. Working closely with schools, local communities, businesses and partner organisations, you will play a key role in shaping healthier travel habits and supporting the Council’s road safety and climate ambitions.
You’ll lead on initiatives such as Modeshift STARS accreditation, local campaigns (e.g. Clean Air Day, Bike Month), and community engagement events. You’ll also carry out surveys, analyse data, and work with stakeholders to tackle barriers to active travel and improve local transport outcomes.
From delivering training and awareness sessions to setting up community steering groups and supporting School Streets initiatives, no two days will be the same.
About the candidate:
We’re looking for someone who is:
Passionate about behaviour change, sustainability and road safety, with a genuine interest in improving community wellbeing
A confident communicator, able to engage and inspire a wide range of audiences including schools, residents and partners
Organised and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple projects and deliver impactful programmes
Collaborative, with strong partnership working skills and the ability to build relationships across communities and organisations
Data-aware, able to gather insights, evaluate outcomes and help shape future initiatives
You’ll ideally have experience delivering education, training or community programmes, organising events, and working directly with the public. Experience in active travel, road safety, or behaviour change initiatives would be advantageous.
For an informal discussion about the role or any queries, please contact via email at rhianhughes@wirral.gov.uk
Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 13th July 2026.
Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must either already have a right to work in the UK before commencing employment or meet the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying.
Please be advised it is our understanding that this role does not meet the requirements of a skilled worker visa as set out by UK Visa and Immigration https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-eligible-occupations/skilled-worker-visa-eligible-occupations-and-codes . For details regarding the salary of a skilled worker visa please visit Home Office: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
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If you are a Wirral resident, are unemployed or out of work, and require help with your application, please contact Involve Northwest’s employment and skills team on info@involvenorthwest.org.uk or contact 0151 644 4500 or 0151 652 4349.
If you’re already a Wirral Council employee, as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing recruitment@wirral.gov.uk
Working at Wirral
You’ll also want to know what it’s like to work here so, as a start:
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We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing and investing in our people.
We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, enrolment into the local government pension scheme (an excellent defined benefit scheme), immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.
We have an inclusive, engaged culture, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued for their contribution and understands the role they play in delivering our strategic priorities.
Each voice is heard, each contribution valued. We embrace diversity in our workforce and recognise it is critical to our success. We support an inclusive culture that champions differences and nurtures a sense of belonging. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, who share our values and our commitment to inclusion to apply for roles with us.
We want you to be your best at work, we create the conditions to help you thrive and we mirror this in our recruitment process. If you’d like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process to make it barrier-free and as accessible as possible please contact recruitment@wirral.gov.uk
Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies.
It is Council policy not to re-appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council's Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances.
Applications will be accepted until midnight on the closing date.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications.
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We do not accept applications or CV’s from recruitment agencies, unless otherwise stated. Therefore, any candidates submitted via a recruitment agency will not be considered for this role.
Salary range
- £28,598 - £31,022 per year