Lawyer

Transport for the North overview:

Transport for the North was established in 2018 as the first Sub-national Transport Body in England and was formed to transform the transport system for the North of England, providing the strategic infrastructure needed for enhanced economic growth.

As a partnership, we bring together the North’s local transport authorities and business leaders together with delivery partners, like Network Rail and National Highways, and work closely with government. We work with our partners to support and enable delivery of the North’s Strategic Transport Plan ambitions to drive sustainable and inclusive growth.

Our role is to add strategic value by ensuring that funding and strategy decisions about transport in the North are informed by local knowledge and requirements. As a partnership, we have powers devolved from central government to work together to deliver strategic transport priorities.

Our vision is of a thriving North of England, where modern transport connections drive economic growth and support an excellent quality of life.

Role overview:

Do you want to be part of our vision of a thriving North of England, where world class transport supports sustainable economic growth, excellent quality of life and improved opportunities for all?

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Transport for the North within our legal team.

You will provide Transport for the North and directorates including the Rail North Partnership with specialist expert legal advice. You will act as a pro active legal specialist lawyer applying expertise to deliver  professional legal, democratic, contract, procurement  and corporate information management support services to contribute to the achievement of corporate objectives and strategic priorities.

You will join a close knit, friendly and supportive team, and join an organisation which has a focus on employees health and wellbeing. Last year, Transport for the North received a prestigious Sunday Times Award of Best Places to Work 2024.

What we’re looking for:

The successful candidate will have a strong track record developing and applying modelling and data analytics solutions, in addition to exceptional experience of developing and applying data systems to pull together disparate datasets.

Experience of planning and managing projects/programmes of work, developing and managing script for repeatable analysis along with the use of statistical techniques to find trends and insight from data is essential. You must also have the ability to develop complex technical outputs and offer input to the development of strategies, plans and business cases.

Candidates must possess a highly numerate degree or possess substantial equivalent experience.

Closing Date: 13th April 2025

Provisional Interview Date:  29th April 2025

In return, as well as a competitive salary, our other benefits are:

·       28 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays

·       Access to the local government pension scheme

·       Access to various salary sacrifice benefits, including Travel Pass purchase scheme.

·       Access to TfN’s Flexi-Time Scheme, allowing accrual of up to 18 additional days leave per year

If you believe you have the skills and experience we’re looking for please apply online, ensuring that in your application you provide evidence in the form of specific examples of how you meet the essential criteria in the role profile.

All candidates will be required to prove their right to work in the UK as part of the recruitment process.

At TfN, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from women, members of ethnic minority groups and people with disabilities who are currently under-represented.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, all applications will be considered on their merit.

As an organisation we always strive to do the right thing and understand that in order to make a difference in our society and workplace, we must be committed to respecting equality and diversity, showing kindness, tackling discrimination and promoting inclusion and have signed the CIHT Diversity and Inclusion Charter Statement to further endorse our commitment. We are also an accredited Living Wage Employer, this means that every employee earns a real Living Wage and are recognised as  Disability Confident employer (stage 2) acting as a disability confident champion within our local and business communities and business networks.

For more information on the role and the organisation as a whole please visit: https://www.transportforthenorthleaders.com/

For an Information conversation and to learn more please contact Brian Gallagher via brian.gallagher@penna.com or call 07716 098175