Leicestershire Collaborate to Accelerate Net Zero (LCAN) Project Officer

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RJ
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £29,784 – £32,004 pro rata
Working Hours: 18.5 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 a Project
Officer to join this exciting project team and support the 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 experience of partnership working and great
organisational skills, we’d love to hear from you! 

About the Role

You will have excellent administrative skills to support the project manager with this fast
paced project which will be delivered along with our partners as part of Leicestershire
Collaborate to Accelerate Net zero (LCAN). You will have experience of diary management and
co-ordination of many stakeholders to ensure activities are scheduled and delivered in the most
efficient and effective manner as possible. You will support the Project Manager to co-ordinate
and deliver procurement processes to enable the delivery of defined work packages. You will
support the production of reports to a range of stakeholders including LCAN partners, the
funder, senior management and elected members. You will support the project manager to ensure
the project is delivered to the funder’s 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 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/ qualification equivalent to NVQ Level 3 in an appropriate subject relating
  to Business Admin or Project Management: or have significant demonstrable evidence of the
  skills & experience to deliver this role (e.g. Prince 2 training or working in a project
  environment).
• Have sound experience in providing administrative support to a diverse and complex project
  or team, including organising, attending and producing materials for meetings; and the
  operation and maintenance of administrative systems and data. 
• Have excellent communication skills and experience of collaborative work with multiple
  stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation and successfully manage these
  relationships to achieve project outcomes.
• Be able to manage conflicting priorities whilst working to tight timescales to achieve
  agreed targets, working on your own initiative and as part as a committed team.
• Be confident to work in a partnership setting, managing the inherent complexities that can
  arise whilst building relationships which are transparent and based on trust.
• Have a good understanding of working in a project environment with an awareness of project
  processes and documentation.
• Knowledge and experience of environmental management or climate change 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.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak
fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

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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