Trasnport Manager

**Cognita Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.**

An exciting opportunity for a **Transport Manager **has opened in AIS. If you are someone who is driven in making a positive difference and with passion for growth and development, this role is meant for you

**Position Requirements**:
Primary Responsibilities
- Oversee and ensure smooth workflow processes in place are followed
- Conduct periodical review to ensure transport operations and service provider compliance aligning with scope of services and service level agreements in accordance with the Master Service Agreement
- Follow-up and witness organized regular training sessions for appointed bus sub-contractor(s)
- Conduct weekly meetings with appointed bus providers and school representatives
- Review of complaints according to SOPs and guidelines
- Conduct regular audit on bus register, bus route, bus cleanliness, performance and compliance (i.e. insurance, maintenance records, etc.)
- Conduct evaluation to ensure service providers’ compliance
- Oversee deployment of traffic wardens, security officers during daily arrival and pick-up period
- Conduct investigations to determine causes of transportation lapses and incidents to improve service delivery and safety procedures
- Review of proposals from appointed transport provider to meet deliverables
- Manage new implementation initiatives and ensuring prompt delivery
- Establish Standard Operating Procedures
- Harmonize and implement corporate requirement to ensure prompt completion
- Monthly reporting of compliance documents as and when needed
- Provide support on any task that may be required by school management regarding transport operations
- Ensure effective communication of transport policies and procedures to operators and academic staff
- Carry out ad-hoc duties as and when assigned by immediate supervisor

Secondary responsibilities
- Project management (small scale) including drafting of RFQ, consolidate proposals, evaluation, coordinating and execution of projects from time-to-time.
- Handles all minor and moderate complexity office layout including conceptual brainstorming, planning, execution and hand-over
- Coordinate and support tender and research market trend exercises for the respective services

Health & Safety Compliance
- Participate and support regular Health & Safety meetings with the service provider(s)
- Oversee safety procedures for safe transport operations
- Conduct investigations to determine causes of any serious incident or potential room for improvement to enhance safety procedures
- Ensure that the service provider conducts Risk Assessment review and updates as per the agreed cadence

Safeguarding Compliance
- Ensure the Safeguarding procedure is embedded and followed through in respective services
- Support and, if necessary, conduct safeguarding training to service providers
- Support the establishment of safeguarding procedures in transport operations
- Oversee background checks completion of all bus crew by service providers
- Support and coordinate annual external audit exercise and continuous improvement

Charter Service Request and School Outreach
- Coordinate and manage charter bus requests to ensure field trip bookings are on time and accurate
- Support the Campus Operations Management in periodic and ad-hoc assignments
- Support ELV Campus Management in transport administrative when required

**The job holder’s responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young person’s for whom s/he is responsible, or with who, s/he comes into contact will be to adhere to and ensure compliance with the relevant Cognita Safeguarding; Child Protection Policy and Procedures at all time. If in the course of carrying out the duties of the role, the job holder identifies any instance that a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm either at school or at home, s/he must report any concerns to the School’s Child Protection Officer/Designated Safeguarding Lead or to the Head or indeed to the Regional CEO so that a referral can be made accordingly to the relevant third-party services.