Leicestershire Collaborate to Accelerate Net Zero (LCAN) Project Manager

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RJ
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £46,404 – £50,865 per annum
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term until 31st October 2025
Closing Date: 4th February 2024
Interview Date(s): provisionally 15th and 16th February 2024

Leicestershire County Council and its partners at Energy Systems Catapult, the Universities
Partnership, Green Fox Energy and National Grid were recently successful with a £2.53 million
funding bid to Innovate UK from the ‘Pathfinder Places’ fund. We are looking for an experienced
project manager to co-ordinate this funding and deliver this exciting and innovative work for
Leicestershire which will support Net Zero living across the County. If you have a flair for
partnership working and proven project management skills, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Role

You will have proven experience to manage this fast paced project and co-ordinate 4 separate
work packages which will be delivered by our partners as part of the Leicestershire Collaborate
to Accelerate Net zero (LCAN) Project. You will ensure the project is delivered to the funders
requirements and that all paperwork and financial reporting is met. You will develop
relationships with the project partners and engage with wider stakeholders to ensure the
project is delivered collaboratively. You will procure and manage subcontractors to support
delivery of the work package requirements. You will demonstrate your passion for Net Zero in
the delivery of this opportunity to support the LCAN Partnership to achieve Net Zero for
Leicestershire. 

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have a degree or project management qualification (e.g. Prince 2, APM) or significant
  demonstrable experience in project management to enable you to successfully manage this large
  scale project for the LCAN partners; demonstrating experience of the management and delivery of
  multi-agency projects and/or projects supported by external funding.
• Have sound experience in collaborative working with internal and external partners and
  stakeholders to build positive relationships across stakeholders, peers and partners, based on
  trust.
• Have excellent communication and presentation skills, including being able to provide
  relevant, concise oral and written advice to senior officers, and external partners and the
  media.
• Be able to coordinate, interpret and write technical and non-technical reports and provide
  advice to partners, stakeholders, seniors managers, Elected Members.
• Be able to work on a fast paced project, adapting to varying workloads and priorities, work
  to tight timescales and to agreed targets.
• Have experience of developing and managing procurements and the management of resulting
  consultancy and supply work to deliver elements of a project. 
• Knowledge and experience of working in a environmental management or climate change role
  particularly with a knowledge of community energy would be beneficial. 

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability
to apply this to all situations.

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:

Jenny Allen, Carbon Reduction Team Manager
Telephone: 0116 3057931
Email: [email protected] 

How to Apply

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the
requirements of the post. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words and be
incorporated into your CV, to form a single document.

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, please contact our
Employee Service Centre: 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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