Title: Service Director: Transport and Connectivity
Rate: £430 - £500 per day
Location: New Shire Hall, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Type: Temporary - 3 months

Opus People Solutions are working with Cambridgeshire County Council to recruit for an interim Service Director to support the achievement of the directorate's core aim of improving transport and connectivity across the county for all communities, protecting and enhancing the environment, delivering sustainable and include economic development and maintaining a resident focus delivery effective front-line services.
Place and Sustainability consists of four key professional areas which include:
* Transport and Connectivity
* Infrastructure, Capital and Delivery
* Environment and Economy
* Regulatory Services

The Service Director: Transport and Connectivity will provide the overall leadership for the County Council's key functions that manage and support improvements to connectivity such as digital connectivity, traffic management, parking management and management of the park and ride and busway operations. The role will also be responsible for overseeing the Council's responsibilities in relation to development management to ensure that highways and transport needs are appropriately considered when any new developments are planned.

The Service Director will work collaboratively with partners on the development of key strategies and programmes to improve transport and connectivity such as the digital connectivity strategy and programme, the Vision Zero strategy and partnership, active travel programmes.

The role will be responsible for the following key services / functions that cover:
* Digital Connectivity
* Parking and Traffic Management
* Sustainable Transport and Strategy

The role will be responsible for ensuring that any programmes that the Council is delivering on behalf of partners such as the combined authority or where the Council is acting as the accountable body are discharged effectively with positive outcomes.