Assistant Project Manager (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
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: 35451 - 39165 per annum (pro-trata for part-time)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 11th January 2026
Interview Date(s): 22nd & 23rd January 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Project Manager to join our Transport Projects & Programmes team within the Environment and Transport Department.
The successful applicant will join a motivated friendly team of professionals committed to delivering public sector highway projects and programmes that offer best value for money.
About the Role
The Assistant Project Manager position will support Project Managers and the Senior Project Manager in planning coordinating and delivering various highway projects by handling day-to-day tasks such as developing project documentation assisting in tracking project progress against timelines and budgets assisting with risk management project reporting and quality assurance.
About You
To apply for this post you must have:
- A relevant qualification and/or demonstrable experience commensurate with the role.
- Experience of working in a Highway engineering setting in relation todesign management maintenance or administrative processes.
- Experience of maintaining effective partnerships and workingrelationships with internal and external stakeholders which can include statutory voluntary private agencies and communities.
- Experience of working to tight timescales to deliver projects and/or programmes on time to quality and cost.
- A good understanding of the principles of Prince2 Project Management.
- Excellent communication presentation and report writing skills.
- A customer focused approach where the customer experience is central to the delivery of the service.
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:
Gema Barley
Senior Project Manager
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How to Apply
Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement detailing how you meet the requirements of the supporting statement should beno longer than 500 words. 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 Plus 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.
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:
IC
Key Skills
- Bluebeam
- Construction Estimating
- Construction Experience
- ProCore
- Microsoft Outlook
- Prolog
- Construction Management
- Project Engineering
- Project Management
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
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