Bike Fleet Lead for School Bikeability & Maintenance

Cycle Fleet Operator

Fixed Term, Part Time

£25,959 per annum full time equivalent (pro rata salary: £21,047.84 per annum for 30 hours per week)

Location: Chelmsford

Working style: Community-based worker

Closing date: 26th May 2026

The role will involve driving to deliver a fleet of bikes to various locations.

The Opportunity: Our Sustainable Transport team's priority is to create a Safer, Greener, Healthier County through increased use of active travel and sustainable transport. The role's core responsibilities include transporting and maintaining a fleet of bicycles to selected schools across the county and supporting central government funded projects through the delivery of bike maintenance programmes.

Accountabilities:

• Lead on the logistics of maintaining an ECC fleet of bikes for the sole purpose of Bikeability training in schools and delivering cycles to selected schools county-wide.
• Liaise with ECC booking administrator, to ensure that each school is aware of the delivery and collection times, as well as any specific requirements for the cycles.
• Organise and manage the provision of cycle maintenance sessions and/or events at workplaces and in community settings.
• Provide regular progress reports to the Cycle Training Officer on the maintenance sessions.
• Support the Active Travel Team to deliver objectives set out in the relevant policies such as Local Transport Plan, Cycling, Walking and Active Travel Practice Notes.
• Promote active and sustainable travel under the safer, greener, healthier campaign banner, and represent ECC at external Active Travel events.
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The experience you will bring:

• Cycle maintenance qualification (desirable) or equivalent experience.
• Ability to organise, manage and prioritise accordingly.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a range of audiences.
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative.
• Able to work effectively and collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Evidence of continuous professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area.
• Experienced user and/or advocate of public/sustainable/active transport.
• Experience of walking or cycling initiatives or engaging with communities, residents, and business.
• Able to use Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a valid driving licence and, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.

Position will be closed after 12 months or earlier if the role is filled.

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