School Place Planning Officer (Internal Applicants Only)
School Place Planning Officer (Internal Applicants Only)
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PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA / home working
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: 47694 - 52155 per annum
Working Hours:37 Hours
Contract Type: 1 year temporary Maternity Leave Cover.
Closing Date: 16th June 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
About the Role
We are looking for an exceptional individual to help Leicestershire to deliver our statutory responsibilities in ensuring all children can access a high-quality local school place to cover two members of the School Organisation Team who will be on maternity leave.
Leicestershire is in a period of significant growth with thousands of new homes being built and over 40 new schools are planned to meet the need for additional school places yielded from housing development. This is a varied role and the successful candidate will carry out a range of functions relating to school organisation capital projects and pupil place planning.
As School Place Planning Officer you will be responsible for an area of the County and work with partners to ensure that the education infrastructure can meet the demand for school places and where additional places are required those places are delivered in the right place and at the right time.
This role would suit someone looking to develop their career working across the organisation and with external partners at a more strategic level. You will be actively involved in defining the strategic brief for new projects managing the new school presumption process engaging with our delivery partners and key stakeholders from inception through to completion to ensure all projects delivered on time and are aligned with the communities they serve.
The successful candidates will work in a growing team helping to ensure that there are sufficient high quality school places in Leicestershire by delivering an ambitious Children and Families Capital Programme across all phases of Education. The work is interesting and varied and involves working closely with Schools and Academies and various stakeholders across Leicestershire.
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About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Experience of successfully planning managing and delivering projects and/or programmes within timescales budget and quality and able to demonstrate experience of relating this to an educational setting.
- Working in an educational environment.
- Experience of working with housing developers and contractors to develop new schools.
- Working within multidisciplinary teams in the public sector.
- Knowledge of factors influencing the provision of school places for example demographic planning.
- Section 106 procedures and the factors that determine developer contributions.
- Influencing the actions and decisions of others through effective advice and guidance.
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 term-time working part-time 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:
Ian Sharpe - Service Manager: School Organisation Service
Telephone: 0
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 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.
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Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Intern
