Principal Transport Modeller

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Would you love to work on some of the DfT’s most pressing issues around aviation decarbonisation; and shaping the UK airport capacity policy / the UK’s aviation strategy?

Do you have a strong analytical track record and a desire to make a difference in your role?

Do you enjoy collaborating with others to analyse and deliver departmental aims?

If so, we have a Principal Transport Modeller role to join us at Department for Transport and we'd love to hear from you! We will provide you with opportunities to work across these different work streams and you will join the vibrant and extensive DfT analytical community.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Maritime and Aviation Appraisal and Modelling (MavAM) team. MAvAM plays a pivotal role in providing robust and influential modelling and appraisal outputs to shape aviation and maritime policy and support wider transport policy.

AMBA (Aviation, Maritime and Borders Analysis) is a multi-disciplinary analytical division with around 50 high-performing team members who provide expertise on modelling, economic analysis, statistical analysis, operation research, social research and advice on appraisal and evaluation to shape strategic thinking and policy development.

Team members work flexibly across team boundaries, supporting each other to deliver against the priorities for the Aviation, Maritime and Security Group. Roles in AMBA provide the opportunity to work closely alongside other analytical colleagues and internal and external industry partners. AMBA is at the heart of some of DfT’s priority policy areas, including decarbonisation and airport expansion.

This role leading on forecasting and understanding surface access to the UK’s airports which is crucial in feeding into the wider aviation modelling and analytical programme. This role will also lead on the liaison with a range of external stakeholders and other modelling teams within DfT to ensure that the department has an accurate evidence base for decision making.

Your Role Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• The postholder will take on the exciting responsibility of managing and being responsible for surface access modelling to airports. This will include working on updating and streamlining a number of models including the National Airport Accessibility Model (NAAM2) as well as Son of South East Regional Air Services model (SoSERAS) and Son of South East Regional Air Services Employee model (SoSERASe), which have been used to look at surface access for both Gatwick and Heathrow.
• You will be in charge of the scoping exercise and feed into decisions on how to proceed, manage the work (possibly including procuring and managing external contractors) to complete updates to NAAM2 and SoSERAS/ SoSERASe.
• You will also lead on producing visualisations and graphics on the outputs of this work to ensure that a wide audience can engage with the analysis. There is the need to collaborate closely with other analytical and policy colleagues to ensure that there is the right evidence is available to support decisions and policy making.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile

About You

To be successful in this role you will:

Be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience in working on, updating and improving transport models with an emphasis on choice modelling.

Have experience in explaining and presenting complex analysis to a wide audience, including the creation of visualisations. We would look for you to demonstrate transferable skills in this area which could include knowledge in geographical modelling, PowerBI, R or GIS.

Be able to demonstrate successful outcomes of liaising with external stakeholders and other analysts on transport modelling projects.

You will need to have strong analytical background.

You will be assessed against the Transport Modeller framework

Additional Information

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

Occasional travel to other DfT offices will be required.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Competency: Achieving impact with analysis
• Competency: Creativity and Problem Solving

Please note, the above example is based on the National minimum salary. The employer pension contribution will be 28.97% of your specific salary.

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.

Job contact :

• Name : Simon Bottomley
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

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