Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall

Worker Category: Hybrid working

Salary: Grade 9 £29,784 - £32,004

Working Hours: Mon - Fri 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed term for 24 months

Closing Date: Friday 3 May 2024

Interview Date(s): Week beginning 13 May 2024

 Are you a flexible, dynamic team player with experience supporting projects, programmes or business change? Looking for a new challenge in 2024? If so, why not come and work with us! 

About the Role

To support Change Leads and Change Managers to successfully discover, design and deliver change initiatives and to ensure the collective understanding of progress of our strategic change portfolio against its objectives and targets. To link corporate change management approaches, standards and requirements across departmental and corporate change agendas, sharing best practice and providing advice and guidance where appropriate. To improve the change management capacity of the TU through taking ownership of change initiative deliverables where required and appropriate to do so

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have a Project management or Change Management qualification or appropriate experience to this level (Prince 2 or equivalent)
• Have experience of working on projects in a supportive, enabling role, providing administrative support and coordination
• Have experience of organising and facilitating key meetings including Project Boards, Project Team meetings and workshops with a focus on decisions and actions
• Have good working knowledge of project requirements and Prince 2 methodology & knowledge of key project documents & requirements
• Have a good working knowledge of general Programme Management Office (PMO) requirements 
• Have a good working knowledge of various Microsoft programmes, incl. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project etc
• Possess excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills including the ability to transfer relevant and proportionate information to members of the project team and to the Change Management Office and engage effectively with key stakeholders

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and 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 individual's 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 Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Enter name and job title: Collis Smith Change Lead

Telephone: 0116 305 1513

Email: collis.smith@leics.gov.uk

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 'Apply Now'. 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 Apply section 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 telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home. 

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Stonewall Top 100, Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
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