Assistant School Place Planning Officer - (Maternity Cover) (Internal Applicants Only)
Assistant School Place Planning Officer - (Maternity Cover) (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 LE3 8RA/Working from Home
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: 34350- 37950 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Secondment / Fixed term for (12 Maternity Cover )
Closing Date: 13th July 2025
Interview Date(s): 23rd July 2025
About the Role
We are looking for an exceptional individual to help Leicestershire deliver our statutory responsibilities in ensuring all children can access a high-quality local school following the retirement of the current post holder. The post is for one year as a cover for the current post holder who is covering the maternity leave of a School Place Planning Officer within the team.
Leicestershire is experiencing significant growth with thousands of new homes being built and new schools planned. 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 Assistant School Place Planning Officer you will support the School Organisation Team in ensuring that education infrastructure can meet the demand for school places and that 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 towards a more strategic level in the future. You will be actively involved in monitoring funding for new projects managing statutory processes and engaging with our delivery partners and key stakeholders from inception through to completion to ensure all projects are delivered on time and aligned with the communities they serve.
The successful candidates will work in a small 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.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see our policy statement.
To apply for this post you must:
Please refer to the 7-point criteria giving examples of how you meet the criteria below
- Support School Place Planning Officers (SPPOs) in identifying and assessing the need for additional places for children and young people at the local District and County levels.
- To support SPPOs in effectively engaging with District Councils housing developers and their agents in respect of planned new housing/SUEs to ensure that Leicestershire receives the developer contributions needed.
- To take a lead role within the team for net capacity relating to School Organisation and Place Planning providing high-level advice and guidance where appropriate.
- To monitor requests and expenditures of S106 through Mastergov and produce reports for SPPOs SMT and CSG.
- Organise and deliver key events including consultations publicity events and member briefings in relation to school organisation matters.
- To support SPPOs to respond to requests for information from schools other County Council officers District Councils developers members of the public and external bodies.
- To manage areas of the Capital Programme as required.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equality 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 in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances while 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 that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Ian Sharpe - Service Manager: School Organisation
Telephone:
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 explaining 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 applying 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
Intern
