Project Officer

Project Officer, Cornwall 

• England South-West
• £28,831 per annum
• Ref: SUS4324
• Full Time 37.5 hours per week – happy to talk flexible working
• Contract: Fixed term until 30 June 2025
• Base: Authority Office in Cornwall with an opportunity to work from home

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our team to work in Cornwall to promote and
enable – walking, wheeling, cycling, and public transport as the sustainable way of travelling
to schools, workplaces, and for journeys in the local community.

As the Project Officer, you will be innovating, developing, and delivering tailor-made packages
of activities and promotional material to encourage and enable active travel. 

You will work in close partnership with Cornwall Council, public transport providers, Sustrans’
Behaviour Change & Engagement team and colleagues to support the development and delivery
of a countywide Workplace Travel Challenge. This will help ensure that as many people as
possible can benefit from the project and that more local journeys can be travelled actively. 

Due to the nature of the role, a full DBS is required. 

We offer true hybrid working, with a mix of working from the Authority office 1-2 days a week
and the opportunity for home working. 

This role will require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake the project on
behalf of Sustrans. You will be occasionally travelling across the Cornwall region.

About you

You will be passionate about active travel and supporting and motivating others to make
positive changes to everyday journeys, to benefit themselves, their local community, and the
environment. You will be self-motivated and able to work independently to manage a varied
workload. 

You should have experience in building relationships with wide range of organisations, groups
and individuals ideally having worked on physical activity, behavioural change projects, a wide
range of people including young people. 

You will be a skilled communicator, able to adapt your approach to engage and meet the needs of
diverse audiences and have experience of planning and delivering engagement activities and
promotional events. 

Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone – reducing inequality,
valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and
respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all
parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups. 

What we offer

In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible,
supportive and rewarding working environment. 

Wellbeing

• 28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working
• Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Staff volunteer days
• 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service
• We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to
  work schemes

Financial

• Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by
  Sustrans
• Bike, computer and season ticket loans
• Discount benefits
• London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32
  local authority districts plus the City of London)
• Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary

Family Friendly

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday – Friday)

Additional information

• Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 23:59, 08 October 2024. 
• Interviews will take place via MS Teams on the 16th or 17th October 2024

To apply, please complete our online application form. More details of our vacancies can be
found on our website.

About Sustrans

At Sustrans you’ll be part of a movement to make it easier for people to walk and cycle. 

We’re all here to change things! You’ll be part of an incredible community of talented,
passionate, creative, problem solvers all working together to change things for the better. We
act locally and think big – we have a vision of a society where the way we travel creates
healthier places and happier lives for everyone.

You’ll be questioning the status quo and daring to imagine a different world. You’ll work on
exciting, impactful projects that will stretch and empower you and you’ll be rewarded by seeing
the difference you make to people, communities and the planet. 

 We believe including everyone is central to who we are and what we want to achieve, we welcome
difference and pride ourselves on creating a culture where you can be yourself and where your
wellness is supported. 

You’ll be guaranteed to make friends for life and work with a team that is incredibly flexible,
supportive, ethical and fun.