Change Officer
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: per annum (pro rata for parttime)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term 12 months
Closing Date: 1st June 2025
Interview Date(s): W/C 16th June 2025
Are you a flexible dynamic team player with experience supporting projects programmes or business change Looking for a new challenge in 2025If so why not come and work with us!
Leicestershire County Councils Transformation Unit is looking for a Change Officer to work within the Children & Family Services Change Team on its Families First Partnership Programme Officers support our Change Managers and Leads to discover design and deliver projects programmes and business change initiatives and ensure collective understanding of progress of our Strategic Change Portfolio through our Change Management Office function. We work with a hybrid remote/office working arrangement.
This post supports LCC on its transformational journey to becoming a modern and sustainable council for the future. The role of the County Council has changed significantly over the past few years. Demand for our services continues to increase expectations are high and pressures on our budget continue to grow. What hasnt changed is our unwavering commitment to ensure that at the heart of our services we aim to achieve the best possible outcomes for Leicestershire residents and their families. Whether its helping people to get the most out of what we deliver being able to access our services more easily and quickly or working together in new and innovative ways we believe the right people with the right support can make a real difference.
About the Role
- Develop and maintain key documentation including benefits realisation plans risk and issue logs progress reports and others as required by Change Leads and the Change Office Manager
- Support delivery of change initiatives through ownership of actions or work packages as directed
- Facilitate the flow of essential information across the Strategic Change Portfolio by ensuring updates and requests for information are proactively prepared and provided in a timely manner
- Organise prepare for and where appropriate facilitate key meetings including Project / Change Boards and workshops ensuring key decisions and actions are captured and followed up.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Experience of working on projects in a supportive enabling role.
- Experience of providing administrative support and coordination.
- Experience of organising and facilitating key meetings such as Project Boards Project Team meetings and workshops.
- Excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills ensuring an orderly environment for projects and objectives to be managed.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Beccy Marriott (Change Manager)
or Trisha GoulbourneHynes (Change Lead)
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a CV and supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
