Transport Officer - School Transport

Transport Officer - School Transport

Start: January 2025

Hours: Full time, 37 per week

Duration: 3 months initially (highly likely to extend)

Rate: £18.50 per hour umbrella (Inside IR35)

Location: Leicestershire Area

Hybrid working

Our client is looking for Transport Admin Officers to support their Schools Transport Team, this is a great opportunity to support at project that is really making a difference locally.

Experience with Microsoft packages and data entry is essential and experience working within the transport sector would be highly advantageous.

There will be a requirement to attend the office on your first day for an induction and to collect IT equipment. You will also need to partake in onsite training over the first few weeks.

Responsibilities:

• Review/plan school transport for secondary schools, this will be in the region of 4,500 pupils attending 50 schools
• Review/plan school transport for primary schools, this will be in the region of 650 pupils across 70 primary schools
• Allocate all pupils to correct contract
• Engage with Customer Service Centre over the printing of school bus passes for contract bus users
• Agree annual season ticket price/contract with individual local bus service providers for pupils placed on network for their transport provision
• Monitor comms received from stakeholders e.g. schools, operator, parents typically via email and ensure these are responded to/factored into review (e.g. change ischool times, term dates, parent requests for specific buses)
• Monitor and allocate pupils received via education new intake from Transport Assessments (i.e. any pupils approved for transport after the initial batch assessment)
• Assist with the procurement of replacement contracts on BB4 DPS with ProContract and issuing of contract award documentation
• Input primary school transport requests onto education new take when parents of entitled pupils email Mainstream Transport mailbox confirming transport is required
• Set up and issue parent contracts (where relevant) for each school as each review is completed
• Oversee the issuing of school and operator packages before the start of the academic year

If this role is of interest to you, please apply with your most up to date CV and a member of the team will be in touch!