Senior / Principal Consultant (Transport Policy Monitoring & Evaluation)
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WSP’s Intelligent Infrastructure discipline works across a wide range of clients in transport and beyond. The goals of the transport system remain unchanged – to help people and goods move around the country – but the underpinning drivers of the system continue to evolve, with priorities around carbon (net zero), climate change resilience, safety and security (zero harm), digitisation, customers (meeting shifting demands and expectation), and efficiency (achieving more for less in fiscally constrained environments) all key considerations of those designing, managing and operating the transport system.
Working in our Operations and Safety team, the successful candidate will work alongside senior experts and collaboratively with other specialists across WSP, matching your monitoring & evaluation skills with technical skills in areas like energy, roads, rail, and active travel to provide a strong and tailored offering for our clients.
A typical week would include:
* Delivering a multi-discipline monitoring and evaluation project, ranging from assessing evaluability, to scoping and designing monitoring and evaluation frameworks, delivering evaluations of local and national transport policies and fostering learning and impactful action on the back of evaluation insights.
* Working with our Clients, to provide expert monitoring and evaluation advice to help them deliver their objectives and optimise benefits.
* Collaborating with a range of experts from across other specialist WSP teams to ensure that your projects bring in the skills needed to meet the project needs.
* Contributing to the growth of the Monitoring and Evaluation capability team to support delivery against its ambitions.
We will be looking for you to demonstrate:
* A proven technical capability in the design and execution of monitoring and evaluation frameworks of policies, programmes and / or projects.
* An understanding of and experience in applying different evaluation methods including quasi-experimental and theory-based methods.
* Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills (e.g. statistical, economic or social research), with experience of delivering robust mixed-method analytical projects.
* Experience of applying government guidance on monitoring and evaluation, including the HM Treasury’s Magenta and Green Books, or Department for Transport’s Transport Appraisal Guidance.
* Expertise in fostering successful collaborations and communicating technical evaluation insights to a wide range of audiences, fostering engagement and buy-in.
* A passion for evidence-informed decision-making, championing the role for robust evidence.
* A proven track record of working collaboratively with government, research and commercial partners.
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WSP is a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
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