Assistant Project Manager

Overview

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

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

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £35,451 - £39,165 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 22nd February 2026

Interview Date(s): Friday 6th March 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Project Manager to join our Transport Projects & Programmes team within the Environment and Transport Department. This role will sit within a sub-team which supports the management of the Department’s capital programme. The role will have a particular focus on developing our public engagement and transparency through data reporting and efficient comms, as well as improving co-ordination across the Department.

The successful applicant will join a motivated, friendly team of professionals committed to delivering public sector highway projects and programmes that offer best value for money.

You will assist the Senior Project Manager with the project management, development and delivery of improvement programmes and projects, including project governance and reporting, consultations, financial and monitoring agreements, to ensure that schemes are delivered to time, quality and cost.

You will play a key co-ordination role in handling and responding to enquiries from Members and the public, supporting effective partnerships and working relationships with internal teams.

You will develop new methods of engagement and reporting and keep these up-to-date, with responsibility for protecting and managing information securely.

You will support the performance management of services and teams through contributing to the departmental business planning process as required, and ensuring activities are delivered in the most efficient and effective manner as possible.

To apply for this post, you must have:

• A relevant qualification (Civil Engineering) and/or demonstrable experience commensurate with the role.
• Experience of working in a commercial environment and delivering projects and programmes to time, quality and cost.
• Experience of maintaining effective partnerships and working relationships with internal and external stakeholders which can include statutory, voluntary, private agencies and communities.
• Good IT skills, including the ability to learn the use of service specific systems and software.
• Excellent communication, presentation and report writing skills.
• A customer focused approach where the customer experience is central to the delivery of the service.

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.

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:

Beth Bradshaw
Senior Project Manager

To contact me by email, please .

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. The supporting statement should beno longer than 500 words.

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