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At the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all individuals. We want to attract candidates from every background irrespective of culture or belief, instilling camaraderie in the workplace, whereby the integration of individual thoughts and values are encouraged. We strive to avoid and challenge discrimination against individuals with regard to gender, race, colour, religious beliefs, national origin, age, disability, sexual or relationship orientation.
RDG supports Smart Working arrangements. As part of our smart working principles, we have adopted the hybrid style of working which allows employees the freedom to split more of their time between the home and office. All we ask is that you do a minimum of 2 days a week in the office, the rest of your time can be working from home or elsewhere. We believe this improves productivity through a focus on outputs and enables a better work life balance for all our employees.
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Our current vacancies
Closing Date: 6th May 2022
Salary Band: £27k-£30k
About the role:
The role of People Strategy / Stakeholder Support Officer will provide support to the activities of People Strategy team. You will play a central role in driving collaborative and strong partnerships between PORS team members, as well as between People Strategy team and its stakeholders. You will be a go-to-person in the People Strategy team in order to continuously improve productivity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
The role is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract, which will be reviewed with the possibility of becoming permanent.
Your key responsibilities will include but not limited to:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
Requirements of the role
Closing Date: 11 May 2022
Salary Band: £55k-£65k
About RDG
Rail is fundamental to the country’s prosperity. Britain’s railway is increasingly important in connecting workers to jobs, businesses to markets, and people to their families and friends. The combination of public and private investment going into the railway is set to boost the UK’s economy by almost £85bn, benefiting every region of Britain. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) brings together the companies that run our railway into a single team with one goal - to deliver a better railway for you and your community.
RDG exists to unify, challenge and change.
RDG’s values, known as ASPIRE, are Accountability, Support, Partnership, Inclusive, Respect and Excellence. Our values form an integral part of our recruitment, performance and recognition processes.
About the role:
We are looking for a product Solution Architect to join our team that are responsible for delivering the Railcard products that give our customers great discounts on rail travel across Britain
The successful candidate will own and develop all aspects of the Railcard retailing solutions, including but not limited to (Salesforce, Sitecore, AWS). Accountable for the roadmap and prioritisation to develop a stable and high performing solution. This role is supported by and will work with a large team of specialist product managers, marketers, research and insight analysts, customer support, digital experts and service management teams.
We are looking for a driven individual who has experience in customer centric solutions, and who will be able to deliver the wider technical strategies and enterprise architecture vision on the railcard products.
The Railcard business owner will:
Act as the owner of the Railcard service, ensuring its smooth day to day operation and future development by:
Candidates for the Railcard business owner role will have:
Project Manager (Traincrew Programme)- 12 month FTC
Closing Date: 6th May 2022
Salary Band: £40,000- £45,000
About the Role
This role is to project manage the Traincrew Assurance Portal Project, as part of the wider Traincrew Programme. To help deliver improvements to how the industry manages and delivers traincrew resourcing. Focusing on the delivery of a new industry Traincrew Assurance Portal. To support the subject matter experts in ensuring the outputs of the project are delivered on time, on budget, and in line with industry requirements.
Who you are looking?
We are looking for someone with a proven track record on the management of programmes/projects qualified with relevant project methodologies such as Prince2 or Agile. Ideally someone who has rail industry experience, but not essential.
With a wide range of skills in the project office environment, including; effective planning and communication (both orally and writing), good attention to detail, documentation management and quality assurance skills and a high-level of organisation.
Requirements of the role:
Closing Date: 24th May 2022
Salary Band: £50k-£58k (depending on experience)
About RDG
Rail plays an ever more crucial role in Britain, with long term growth in customer and freight. The Rail Delivery Group brings together all passenger and freight operators with Network Rail and HS2, providing services and support to enable them to succeed by delivering better services for customers.
RDG exists to unify, challenge and change.
RDG’s values, known as ASPIRE, are Accountability, Support, Partnership, Inclusive, Respect and Excellence. Our values form an integral part of our recruitment, performance and recognition processes.
We require a proactive and focused person to join our small team supporting the IT and Facilities functions in this office-based role. The Service Desk & Facilities team are responsible for the ongoing support of customer solutions and internal infrastructure. It is a dynamic and wide-ranging role that will involve working closely with our customers.
The role will be accountable for infrastructure, and security operations within the Organisation. Supporting our client base with problem resolution to the diverse user base that may include both internal and external stakeholders. This role will report to the IT Team Manager.
Who we are looking for
We are seeking an experienced candidate, capable of undertaking the following main responsibilities, (in addition to other tasks not listed here)
To be successful you must meet each of the essential requirements as follows:
A minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience related to security and network technology, VMware SAN’s |
Excellent knowledge of Azure, and configuration and delivery of Azure solutions |
Knowledge of Information Security Management and Quality Management standards as well as other industry good practice |
Technical experience in the implementation of mission critical resilient systems |
Knowledge of trends and emerging technologies, and a wide range of security systems and packages |
Excellent written and spoken English |
Ability to work proactively and independently |
Ability to work flexibly and under pressure |
Be a strategic thinker but pragmatic where appropriate |
High attention to detail including time prioritisation and management |
Ability to relate easily with stakeholders, contractors and Suppliers and be able to communicate in both a technical and business language including the ability to communicate complex technical information to individuals who do not have a technical background |
Be able to juggle multiple priorities and deliver successfully in a fast-paced environment |
A CV will not be required at this stage. If you believe you have the qualities we are seeking for any of our vacancies, please submit a short summary of your key skills and experience using the form below, detailing why you feel you would be a great fit.
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Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 20 days of the advert closing, I am afraid you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Closing Date: 11th May 2022
Salary Band: £50k-£55k
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Test Manager to join our QA team. The Test Manager will be responsible for the management of QA and testing across releases (both project and BAU).
They will have experience working in iterative and waterfall methodologies and manage the test team in its deliverables. They will have good grasp on the delivery timelines and assist the project/team to meet all release milestones through efficient testing across functional and non-functional scopes.
The test manager will have good knowledge of certified testing practices (associated with ISTQB) and associated processes as well as deliverables. They will also be capable of managing resources and their careers and various internal teams, external and internal stakeholders.
The Test Manager will assist the Senior QA Manager with maintaining and expanding the QA Framework for both Manual and Automation Testing & Assurance.
The successful candidate will be expected to:
Closing Date: 11th May 2022
Salary Band: £55k-£65k
About the role itself:
This role is a fixed term contract for a minimum 9 month period and provides a great opportunity to shape the future of the railway: ensuring it continues to provide an excellent service to our customers, supports economic growth across the country, delivers environmental benefits and connects communities.
We are looking for someone who enjoys working with multiple stakeholders, is able to build consensus around key issues and has the ability to represent passenger and freight operator views effectively to senior industry stakeholders.
Specific responsibilities include:
Who you are looking for (the type of candidate):
We are looking for someone who can work independently and at speed across multiple workstreams ensuring that good progress is made and that relevant stakeholders are engaged throughout. You will be flexible and adaptable, able to respond quickly and positively to changes in priorities.
You will be working at national and regional level with senior stakeholders from industry and government and will need to have a high level of influence on the development of policies, programmes and initiatives across a wide range of areas. Consequently, you will have strong interpersonal and presentational skills to negotiate, influence and build productive and collaborative relationships at all levels in the industry and government.
You will be well-organised and a good communicator able to convey complex issues in a simple and concise way. A background in strategy development would be helpful though not essential.
Requirements of the role :
Closing Date: 10th May 2022
Salary Band: £33,000-34,500k
This is a permanent stakeholder facing role that assists Passenger Train and Freight Operating Companies in improving the performance of rolling stock.
This is achieved by supporting stakeholders in the identification and execution of fleet reliability improvement initiatives and promulgating industry best practice.
An undergraduate (or graduate) in a Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic or Mechatronic Engineering Discipline.
The candidate should ideally be working towards achieving Professional Registration with one of the Professional Institutions (e.g. IMechE or IET) and have be comfortable working collaboratively to deliver their work.
An appreciation of rolling stock systems and maintenance arrangements is also considered to be of use.
Closing Date: 13th May 2022
Salary Band: £32k to £35K
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to help drive improvement within the customer support teams at National Rail. This is a three month secondment role.
We are searching for someone to actively manage a national service ensuring our suppliers operates in line within timeframes, policies and procedures; ensuring that the customer remains at the heart of all interactions.
What we are looking for
In order to fulfil this role
Essential
Desirable
RDG Independent Chair
Closing Date: 13th May 2022
Location: RDG’s offices are in Aldersgate, London. We support hybrid working and a blend of virtual/physical Board meetings.
What we’re looking for?
RDG is going through a significant period of transition following the White Paper. Some components of current RDG will be removed to establish a new industry trade body (Rail Partners), and ownership of RDG is transferring from members to GBRTT (target May 29th), ahead of a future move into Great British Railways.
It therefore requires a new chairperson for the transitionary period (c.12-18 months) ahead of GBR forming. RDG Board Chair will be remunerated and will require a commitment of 2.5 days per month.
Chair Purpose
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for a senior leader and someone who enjoys working with demanding stakeholders with varying needs and meeting or better, exceeding their wishes. The RDG Head of Operations has a central role in the strategic management and co-ordination of performance, operations, policing and security and industry crisis command arrangements, working alongside important stakeholders from across the rail industry. The work is varied, the job is intellectually challenging, always interesting and tests both your operational knowledge and your wider leadership, facilitation and diplomatic skills.
An understanding of railway operations, industry structures and roles is essential. You will need to synthesise and represent different stakeholder views and needs to achieve whole-system outcomes across a range of issues.
You and your team, in collaboration with industry partners, will seek to improve overall railway performance and its cost-effectiveness and ensure that the standards to which we operate the railway are suitable and enable efficiencies.
You will also support Network Rail and TOC directors by leading and convening RDG groups on strategic issues, ranging from industry reform down to tactical subject-specific interventions delivered through your wider team. You need to be self-starting, well-organised and be able to identify, analyse and facilitate solutions, using your excellent written and oral communication skills.
The ideal person will be able to demonstrate:
Closing Date: 20th May 2022
Salary Band: Up to £50K
About this Role:
This role is to support an industry change project to improve rail resilience i.e. rail emergency planning, via communications and enable effective business change. The current situation was set out in Rail Resilience Project (RRP) Emergency Management Review published in September 2021 commissioned by RDG is response to a request from the Cabinet Office. The role will work alongside both the project and industry operational teams and stakeholders to raise awareness of the project and to embed business change elements as key parts of project outputs to enable subsequent change activities. This will involve employing change management tools/ techniques working with people and organisations
Who we are looking for?
We are looking for someone with experience of working as a communications and or change manager or has undertaken similar change as a line manager, demonstrating a strong aptitude for the role and an acquisition of relevant knowledge.
Some of the sort of specific skills and knowledge we are looking for include:
Closing Date: 20th May 2022
Salary Band: Up to £40k
About the Role:
This role is to project manage the rail resilience project to improve rail emergency management and to support the Project Lead in ensuring that the outputs are delivered on time, on budget and in line with industry requirements. The current situation was set out in Rail Resilience Project (RRP) Emergency Management Review published in September 2021 commissioned by RDG is response to a request from the Cabinet Office.
What we are looking for?
Looking for a project professional who is familiar with the project office environment, who can work independently and has a good aptitude for analytical and problem solving, with good analysis and documentation understanding.
With a wide range of skills in the project office environment, including; effective planning and communication (both orally and writing), good attention to detail, documentation management and quality assurance skills and a high-level of organisation.
Some of the sort of specific skills and knowledge we are looking for include:
Closing Date: 20th May 2020
Salary Band: £65k-£75k
About this role:
This role is to lead the rail resilience project to improve rail emergency management to ensure that the outputs are delivered in line with industry requirements on time and on budget. The current situation was set out in Rail Resilience Project (RRP) Emergency Management Review published in September 2021 commissioned by RDG is response to a request from the Cabinet Office.
Who we are looking for?
Looking for a project professional who is familiar with the project office environment, who can work independently and has a good aptitude for analytical and problem solving, with good analysis and documentation understanding.
With a wide range of skills in the project office environment, including; effective planning and communication (both orally and writing), good attention to detail, documentation management and quality assurance skills and a high-level of organisation.
Some of the sort of specific skills and knowledge we are looking for include:
Closing Date- 14/05/2022
Salary Band: £45k-55K
This is a crucial role in support of everything RDG does to manage relationships with Third Party Retailers (TPRs). This role acts as the key interface for RDG with all TPRs, developing and maintaining internal and external relationships, member governance and internal processes.
Third Party Retailers account for a significant proportion of industry revenue and this role will be focused on managing relationships with TPRs, focusing on industry revenue growth, improving the customer experience and supporting innovation.
The ideal candidate will understand the importance of complex commercial partnerships in a multi-stakeholder led environment and have strong experience of managing stakeholder relationships. You will enjoy managing relationships with a diverse mix of retailers (B2C and B2B), leading engagement with prospective new retailers, problem solving, identifying risks and opportunities, and using your initiative.
In this role you will need to work collaboratively with other teams within RDG and GBRTT and will have a leading role in our relationships with key retailer representative bodies, as well as ensuring retailer licence obligations are fulfilled.
Closing Date: 19th May 2022
Salary Band: £35,000 - £45,000
About RDG
Rail plays an ever more crucial role in Britain, with long term growth in customer and freight. The Rail Delivery Group brings together all passenger and freight operators with Network Rail and HS2, providing services and support to enable them to succeed by delivering better services for customers.
RDG exists to unify, challenge and change.
RDG’s values, known as ASPIRE, are Accountability, Support, Partnership, Inclusive, Respect and Excellence. Our values form an integral part of our recruitment, performance and recognition processes.
What is the purpose of this job?
The Rail Data Marketplace (RDM) aims to bring together data sources from across the industry so that they are easy to find, accessible to app developers and aggregators, conform to interoperability standards and support innovation. This DfT-sponsored project will help to realise the vision of openly accessible data which supports improvements in passenger experience and operational efficiency. It has broad backing across industry and aims to launch in late 2022. The RDM delivery team is now being recruited to shape and implement the service which will we hope will grow significantly and continue to be improved over the next few years.
The content designer will play a key role within the team and be responsible for creating, evaluating, updating and reviewing content at all stages of the end-to-end user journey. We are currently building the service in an agile way and to GDS Service Standards; the successful candidate will play an important role in iterating our user-centric design and meeting GDS standards.
We are currently seeking a Content Designer to carry out the following roles:
What experience, skills and knowledge do you need?
Essential:
Desirable:
Who will my key contacts be?
Closing Date: 23 May 2022
Salary Band: £30k - £35k
About the role:
The purpose of the role is to provide the Executive Assistant to the CFOO with high quality administrative support and to assist with Company Secretarial processes. The successful applicant will have had administration experience of supporting a team of executives and providing traditional administrative support to a C-level executive. The assistant will provide cover when the Executive Assistant is absent.
The candidate will have excellent meeting management including: taking minutes; following up on actions; preparing board packs and setting meeting dates. The candidate will have an interest in learning Company Secretarial practices.
In order to fulfil this role
Closing Date: 27 May 2022
Salary Band: £27k/annum (increase up to £30k/annum when complete probation)
The role is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract, which will be reviewed with the possibility of becoming permanent.
What is the purpose of this job?
As a member of the People Strategy team, and reporting to the People Strategy Manager, the Stakeholder Support Officer will provide support with the team’s activities. For example, you will play a central role in driving collaborative and strong partnerships between PORS team members, as well as between People Strategy team and its stakeholders. You will also be a go-to-person in the People Strategy team in order to continuously improve productivity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
What can I expect to do in this job?
Your key responsibilities will include but not limited to:
What experience, skills and knowledge do I need?
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
A CV will not be required at this stage. If you believe you have the qualities we are seeking for any of our vacancies, please submit a short summary of your key skills and experience using the form below, detailing why you feel you would be a great fit.
To apply for one of our advertised roles, please download and complete this form. Then email your form to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 20 days of the advert closing, I am afraid you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
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