12-month Programme Management Office Internship with Active Travel England

Job Summary

Are you in your final two years at university, studying for a degree?
Do you have a curious personality?
Looking for a placement during your degree?
Active Travel England is enabling people nationwide to be more active by making streets safe and accessible for walking, wheeling and cycling. We do this by building capability across the country to deliver high-quality networks, routes, and places. We engage, enable, assure, and advocate to make active travel a core part of transport planning. At the heart of everything we do is raising standards in street design, to ensure our country’s streets become safer and more accessible.

Job Description

This internship offers an exciting opportunity to work within the Operations directorate where you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that covers HR, Finance, Communications, Programme Management Office, and Investments. We are at the heart of everything ATE does, ensuring that the Agency is successful in delivering its objectives. If you are a highly organised and proactive individual with a keen interest in Project Delivery and Management, this internship is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience working within a PMO function to support the Agency in continuously improving its project delivery capabilities.

ATE Internship Opportunity

You will be provided with a structured programme but will also have the opportunity to identify areas of interest to you. In this role, you will gain experience in and assist with:

Risks and Issues Management

• Liaise with project managers to update risk logs.
• Escalate risks in accordance with ATE’s Risk Policy.

Secretariat Duties

• Organise and attend key governance meetings, keeping track of actions and producing minutes.
• Help establish and maintain systems for effective project governance and reporting.

Reporting

• Managing report commissions and collating data for performance reports to be shared with ATE Board and our DfT Sponsor Team.
• Help to create and maintain reporting dashboards to monitor and track project delivery performance in real time.

Person Specification

We Are Looking For Someone:

• In their last two years of university, studying for a degree. Please see attached list of subjects.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good organisational skills and good attention to detail.
• Hard-working and motivated.
• Open to taking on new roles/tasks and delivering quality results to set deadlines.

Working Hours, Office Attendance and Travel Requirements

Full-time roles consist of 37 hours per week. This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements. The expectation is that a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker Licence sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. Candidates must ensure they have the appropriate rights to work in the UK before application.

Qualifications

To be eligible to apply for one of our placements, you must be studying for a degree and be in your final two years at university, studying for a degree on the attached Course List. You will be required to provide evidence that you hold any essential qualifications/licenses at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Working Together

Alongside your salary of £24,548, Active Travel England contributes £7,111 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

How To Apply:

Our selection process ensures a comprehensive assessment of each applicant's qualifications, skills, and potential fit within our organisation.

The Selection Process For This Role Will Be:

Stage 1: Sift

• A written behavioural example in 250 words that provides evidence of you having demonstrated the following:
  • Working Together - Provide an example of where you have collaborated with colleagues to achieve a desired outcome.
• A tailored CV that demonstrates suitability to the role and the essential criteria.
• Personal statement in 750 words providing detailed experience of the following:
  • How this opportunity aligns to your studies and what you hope to gain from it.
  • Your experience of carrying out research and gathering data.
  • Your experience of proactively contributing to the work of the whole team, while remaining open to taking on new roles/tasks and delivering quality results to the deadline.

The sift will take place week commencing 9th March 2026.

Stage 2: Interview

At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements:

• Behaviours – Developing Self and Others
• Strengths

The interviews will take place week commencing 13th April 2026. This interview will be conducted online via Microsoft Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

Please note that we will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service to discuss your needs.

Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.

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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.