Job Description

Job Category: Non-Teaching
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PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Leicestershire County Council, County Hall, Groby Road, Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA.
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker with County Hall being the main base and point for any travel. A flexible approach is required to work from multiple locations across Leicestershire to meet the service requirements.
Salary: 55,443 - 61,116 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: 37 per week with flexibility on pattern to meet the service requirements. The post holder will be required to work occasional evenings and weekends by prior agreement.
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 16th January 2026
Interview Date(s): TBC
Why work for the County Council?

• Opportunities to join a very good Local Government Pension Scheme
• Opportunities to progress within a large public sector organisation
• Extensive training and development opportunities
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Access to staff wellbeing & counselling Service
• Discounted local gym membership
• Work for an organisation which 94% of our staff say is a good employer

About the Role
This role is to lead a diverse portfolio working strategically across a broad range of themes from across the Council. You will be responsible for leading a team of business partners and policy officers and will be required to forge strong working relationships with a wide range of internal and external statutory and voluntary sector organisations.
The post holder will require strong leadership skills with a focus on a strategic approach galvanising people and topics together to ensure an effective and efficient approach to deliver high quality and cost-effective outcomes.
The post holder will lead complex pieces of work such as Armed forces, volunteering, neighbourhood planning, social value and others, Council wide.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must have experience of:

• Leading policy and commissioning activity relating to communities, including the implementation and review of the Communities Strategy.
• The management and oversight of Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) relationships and contracts.
• Capacity building to enable communities to take on an enhanced role in relation to service delivery partnerships and service devolution and prevention based work.
• Provide high quality advice to LCC Members (including the relevant Lead Members, Cabinet and Scrutiny) and officers (specifically Corporate Management Team, Department Management Team and corporate boards) through appropriate communication and dialogue.
• Provide strategic oversight and challenge of all Voluntary and Community Sector contracts commissioned and performance managed by the Service

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 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:
Contact: Simon Dalby - Head of Service
Telephone: 0116 3056650
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How to Apply
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. This should explain how you meet the criteria outlined in the 'About You' section above and include relevant examples to demonstrate your experience. 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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