Are you excited by a unique and rewarding opportunity to join the team as Joint Head of Accessible Travel Governance, working in close partnership with a job share colleague? Have you overseen strong governance, effective management, and the strategic direction of programmes supporting national services, such as mobility centres? Are you passionate about inclusion, thrive in collaborative environments, and confident balancing people leadership with competing priorities to make a meaningful difference to how people experience transport across the UK? If so, we’d love to hear from you! DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better. The Department for Transport (DfT) is committed to building a transport system that works for everyone. Within the Accessibility, Coaches, Community Transport and Taxis (ACT) Division, we focus on ensuring that disabled people and those with accessibility needs can travel confidently, safely, and independently. Joining our department comes with many benefits, including: Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance. Read more in the Benefits section below! Policy opportunities at the Department for Transport - Department for Transport Careers This is a unique and rewarding opportunity to join the team as Joint Head of Accessible Travel Governance working alongside a job share partner. The role brings together strategic leadership and sponsorship of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) Secretariat - supporting the Department’s statutory advisory body on accessible transport - with responsibility for overseeing the governance, management, and strategic direction of the Department’s support for mobility centres. You will work closely with ministers, senior officials, and external stakeholders including the DVLA, Driving Mobility, and individual mobility centres, to shape inclusive transport policy, provide robust governance and effective oversight of funding, performance, and service delivery. Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to: Provide strategic leadership and oversight of the DPTAC Secretariat, ensuring an effective, well-organised programme of Main Committee and sub-committee meetings. Shape and maintain a coherent forward work programme for DPTAC that reflects ministerial priorities, emerging policy areas, and departmental objectives. Support the DPTAC Chair to run effective meetings, ensuring high-quality agendas and papers and clear tracking of actions and follow-up. Strengthen engagement between DPTAC, ministers, officials and wider government so advice is timely, visible and influential. Oversee the Department’s support for mobility centres, including governance, funding administration, and performance monitoring. Build effective working relationships with DVLA, Driving Mobility and individual mobility centres to support joined-up service delivery and continuous improvement. Lead development and implementation of a sustainable operating model for the Department’s interaction with mobility centres, ensuring value for money and efficient use of public funds. Line manage SEO and HEO staff within the division’s matrix structure, fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture and providing resilience support across the ACT Division. You will manage a small team. Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public. For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .