Assistant Project Manager (Internal candidates only)

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-rata for part-time)

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 11th January 2025

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. This role will sit within a sub-team which supports the management of the Departments capital programme. The role will have a particular focus on developing our public engagement and transparency through data reporting and efficient comms as well as improving co-ordination across the 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

You will assist theSenior Project Manager with the project management development and delivery of improvement programmes and projects including project governance and reporting consultations financial and monitoring agreements to ensure that schemes are delivered to time quality and cost.

You will play a key co-ordination role in handling and responding to enquiries from Members and the public supporting effective partnerships and working relationships with internal teams.

You will develop new methods of engagement and reporting and keep these up-to-date with responsibility for protecting and managing information securely.

You will support the performance management of services and teams through contributing to the departmental business planning process as required and ensuring activities are delivered in the most efficient and effective manner as possible.

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 commercial environment and delivering projects and programmes to time quality and cost.
• Experience of maintaining effective partnerships and workingrelationships with internal and external stakeholders which can include statutory voluntary private agencies and communities.
• Good IT skills including the ability to learn the use of service specific systems and software.
• 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:

Beth Bradshaw

Senior Project Manager

Email Address

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.

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