Job Description

Job Category: Non-Teaching
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: 39,939 - 42,699 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 18th January 2026
Interview Date(s): February 2026 (TBC)
An opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join a successful team delivering waste and environment projects on behalf of Leicestershire County Council (LCC).
About the Role
You would support delivery of a range of capital and revenue projects. Projects typically include improvement work at one of LCC's Recycling and Household Waste Sites or Waste Transfer Stations. You might also be asked to support service change through preparation and analysis of business data, commissioning, project oversight, and progress reporting.
We are looking for someone with a proven track-record in project management, or who has a background in the waste or environment sectors and experience of project delivery.
The ideal candidate will have excellent organisational and communication skills and will use their initiative to efficiently deliver projects.
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:

• Relevant degree (or equivalent qualification) and/or equivalent experience in management and delivery of projects.
• Successful management and delivery of projects using a structured methodology (i.e. PRINCE2 or equivalent), including preparation of project documentation.
• Experience in analysis of data and information.
• Be able to manage conflicting priorities whilst working to tight timescales to achieve agreed targets.
• Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Be competent with Microsoft Office software packages including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

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.
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 page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Andrew Harper - Team Manager
0116 3058384
To contact me by email, please click .
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. 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 Plus 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 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: .
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About Us:
About Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council is a and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . 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:

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