Assistant School Place Planning Officer

Leicestershire County Council; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in the East Midlands is seeking an Assistant School Place Planning Officer to cover maternity leave for a year. The role involves supporting school organisation, engaging with developers, and ensuring the timely delivery of school places. This position is hybrid, providing flexibility to support work-life balance. An understanding of project management and strong communication skills are essential for success.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Support School Place Planning Officers in identifying the need for additional places.
• Engage with District Councils and housing developers for contributions.
• Monitor requests and expenditures in school planning processes.

Responsibilities

• Support SPPOs and manage the Capital Programme.
• Organize key events related to school organisation.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of education infrastructure.

Skills

Understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion

Strong communication skills

Project management

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12.08.2025

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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA/Working from Home

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Secondment / Fixed term for (12 Maternity Cover )

Closing Date: 13th August 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

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.

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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 share 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 in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's 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 page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion,please contact:

Ian Sharpe - Service Manager: School Organisation

Telephone: [phone]

Email:

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 applying for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal:.

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