Project Officer Public Transport

Salary

Salary: £34,434 - £42,839

Contractual hours

Basis

Flexi Hours

Package

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment, with a strong focus on wellbeing, flexible working, opportunities to develop your skills, and a generous pension scheme.

Job category/type

Project Management

Date posted

03/06/2026

Job reference

REQ0001042

Help shape the future of bus travel in Brighton and Hove

We are seeking a motivated and organised Project Officer to join the Public Transport team and support the delivery of improvements to bus services across the city.

This is an opportunity to contribute to a mix of established and emerging priorities, helping to deliver projects that benefit residents, visitors and the environment.

About the role

As a Project Officer you will work within a busy team delivering public transport improvements and supporting sustainable travel.

You will

• Contribute to and run projects across a range of workstreams, from early planning through to implementation and review
• Plan, coordinate and monitor project activity, ensuring progress is tracked and outcomes are achieved
• Collect, manage and analyse data to monitor performance and to support reporting and decision making
• Provide expert, well informed advice to decision makers and colleagues, taking into account the wider organisational and policy context
• Work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, including colleauges, bus operators and external partners, building effective working relationships to support delivery
• Undertake business as usual activities, responding flexibly to changing priorities and emerging work
• Manage workload effectively and use initiative to move projects forward

About you

We are looking for someone who is organised, proactive and able to manage a varied workload. You will be comfortable working with a range of people, using your initiative to support and lead on the delivery of projects from start to fnish.

Why join us?

• Work on a diverse range of public transport initiatives
• Develop your skills in a delivery focused environment
• Contribute to projects that have a direct impact on the city

We welcome applications from people with a range of backgrounds and transferable skills who can demonstrate their ability to meet the requirements of the role.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

How to apply

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

AI advice for candidates

We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.