Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

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

Worker Category: Fixed Location

Salary: £34,350 - £37,950 per annum

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed term (initially 12 months with extension subject to annual funding)

Closing Date: 25th April 2025

Interview Date(s): 14th May 2025

Active Together is a partnership organisation, working to help the communities of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland get more physically active.

About the Role

Do you enjoy working with data and information? Are you able to work as part of a passionate and committed team? Can you think analytically, but present findings creatively? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to lead Active Togethers Insight function to support our monitoring, evaluation and learning work. The roles includes working with the team to monitor, evaluate and learn from our programme delivery, as well as assessing the overall impact of what we do.

The successful candidate can expect to undertake a variety of rewarding duties, working with a range of officers and external partners.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Be able to use national and local data to build a clear understanding of the inequalities that exist to be physically active across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
• Use survey software to design, administer and analyse participant and partner questionnaires to understand the effectiveness of our programmes and services.
• Lead on the production, roll out and analysis of a Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland residents survey to understand the behaviours, attitudes and intentions of local communities in relation to physical activity, health and wellbeing.
• Use creative and eye catching solutions to present evaluation findings and recommendations for continual improvement.
• Gather qualitative information to understand participants experiences and behaviours. Produce case studies that share lived experiences and aspire others.
• Lead Active Togethers performance reporting responsibilities to ensure we successfully demonstrate our impact and meet all key deadlines.
• Have learning from what we do, supporting our team and partners to continually improve the services we provide.

In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview 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:

Name and job title: Noel Haines, Strategic Lead

Telephone: 01509 467482

Email: n.haines@active-together.org

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+ 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 Now' button below. 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: https://emss.org.uk/support.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a 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
Working for Us

Leicestershire County Council provides public services including education, social services, highways, waste disposal, libraries, registration, planning and trading standards across Leicestershire.