Project Manager (Maternity Cover)

Leicestershire County Council; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire County Council is seeking an experienced Project Manager for a maternity cover position in the Special Projects Team. The role involves delivering diverse projects within the Environment and Transport Department while ensuring effective stakeholder management and communication. A collaborative and customer-focused approach is essential to enhance service delivery within the Council.

Qualifications

• Experienced project manager with proven track record.
• Ability to adapt to varying workloads and priorities.
• Understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a range of non-construction projects.
• Coordinate information from various sources for project success.
• Provide concise advice to senior offices and external partners.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Customer Focus

Job description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £38,700 - £41,373 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed term (13 Months Maternity Cover)

Closing Date: 15th June 2025

Interview Date(s): 1st July 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager within the Special Projects Team. Special Projects are based within the Business Support and Management function of the Environment and Transport Department. (Maternity Cover)

The team delivers a wide range of projects that support the management team and wider department. These can include medium term financial projects that aim to reduce costs or increase income, business service and customer improvements, procurement projects, and elected member liaison.

The postholder will have a diverse and varied range of non-construction projects to deliver that often require careful stakeholder management and partnership working.

About the Role

You will already be an experienced project manager with a proven track record of delivering successful and varied projects that are relevant to this role. Applicants will need to demonstrate proven capability of delivery in a large organisation and be able to work across teams and departments as part of a project management team with minimum supervision and support.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• To apply effective project management methodology and techniques. To lead the development and delivery of a range of improvement programmes and projects, using strong project governance and reporting, updating RAID documents, consultations, financial and monitoring agreements, ensuring that schemes are delivered within time, quality and cost expectations.
• Be able to coordinate and interpret information from a number of sources to support the delivery of projects and enable effective communication. This may include examining situations with a critical and questioning mindset to challenge assumptions and existing practices.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including being able to provide relevant, concise oral and written advice to senior offices, and external partners in a professional manner.
• Have sound experience in collaborative working with internal and external customers and key stakeholders to build positive relationships across stakeholders, peers, and partners.
• Be able to adapt to varying workloads and priorities, work to tight timescales and to agreed targets; this will include the ability to drive forward projects, overcome blockages and anticipate delays
• A customer focused approach where the customer experience is central to the delivery of the service
• Have a positive attitude and a proven track record of project management delivery that is relevant to this role. This will include overcoming complex barriers to delivery, dealing with sensitive and at times controversial projects

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:

GuyDarragh , Special Projects Team Manager

Telephone: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

or

Sam Cooper, Senior Project Manager

Telephone [phone]

Email : [e-mail]

How to Apply

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailinghow you meet the requirements of the post.The supporting statement should be no 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+ 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 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 telephoning0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support .

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