The Infrastructure team is hiring a Senior Policy Officer and two Senior Project Officers to support the development of policies, programmes and projects that will help to ensure delivery of the Mayor’s priorities for infrastructure and decarbonisation in the capital.
The Infrastructure team works to improve infrastructure planning and delivery in our city to benefit Londoners and its businesses. We work through coordination within the sector, with boroughs, developers, utilities, telecoms, and other infrastructure providers. We have developed the Infrastructure Coordination Service, an award-winning service which brings significant benefits for industry and Londoners, by improving air quality, supporting ‘healthy streets,’ enabling decarbonisation and unlocking affordable housing delivery through coordination within the sector. You would join a fast-paced, industry-leading team focused on innovation and creating real change in the sector.
As a Senior Policy Officer you’ll work closely with colleagues across the team, the wider GLA, regulators, government, and others to investigate and unlock barriers to infrastructure coordination in the capital, with the goal of achieving greater decarbonisation, unlocking new homes, improving equality and diversity in the infrastructure sector and meeting other Mayoral priorities. Your work will support sustainable, long-term change in business practices around collaboration that can only be made possible by progressing a range of regulatory and policy interventions.
As a Senior Project Officer you’ll work closely with partners across industry to promote the ‘dig-once’ approach to streetworks and collaborative working within the infrastructure sector, and to improve how development connects into infrastructure in areas of high growth. Your work will be geared towards reducing road network disruption and making London’s infrastructure delivery more efficient, including resolving technical barriers to collaborative working, and developing best practice. You’ll support boroughs, developers, works promoters – such as utilities from across the water, gas, power, and telecom sectors – and contractors to scale up pilots so that collaboration becomes “business as usual.”
These roles will require diverse skillsets and expose the officer to high-profile work across the GLA.
You’ll have a chance to work on a range of interesting policy issues and projects, at the forefront of the sector, helping to tackle some of the cross-cutting problems impacting infrastructure planning and delivery in the capital by:
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Taking a strategic approach to infrastructure policy and delivery working with government, regulators, and industry.
- Understanding London’s long-term infrastructure needs and the interdependencies across a range of areas such as decarbonisation and housing delivery.
- Supporting cross-cutting working groups such as the Mayor’s London Infrastructure Group and the Infrastructure Advisory Panel.
- Working with colleagues across the Infrastructure team to support delivery of programmes through research, analysis, and policy development.
- Liaising and developing new relationships with high-level stakeholders from across government, London boroughs, and regulators to remain informed and help shape policy development.
- Undertaking stakeholder engagement with key partners from across industry, including utility companies, contractors, IDNOs, and network management teams within Highway Authorities (Boroughs and Transport for London).
- Promoting positive behaviour change and supporting infrastructure providers to embed collaboration as “business as usual”.
- Developing a range of case studies, guides, tools, and other materials.
Each role requires strong logical and problem-solving skills, as well as an ability to communicate effectively in a variety of forms with a diverse range of people.
We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds. You may have studied or have work experience in areas such as infrastructure and utilities, energy, sustainability and decarbonisation, housing, planning, or other related areas. If you have technical experience (e.g. engineering), these skills are welcomed but not required.
London's diversity is its biggest asset, and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, or disability.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.
In addition to a good salary package, we offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days’ annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan, childcare voucher scheme and a career average pension scheme.