Participation Team Assistant

Job Description

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

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

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £25,998 - £27,273 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 30 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed Term for 9 months starting in May/June 2025 for maternity leave cover

Closing Date: 28th April 2025

Interview Date(s): 8th May 2025

About the Role

The successful applicant will work closely with the Senior Support Officer to assist the Culture Leicestershire (CuL) team in effective service delivery. This includes carrying out a wide range of activities such as assisting team managers with production of documentation and reports, arranging meetings, monitoring mailboxes, producing newsletters, creation of orders and admin around payments for suppliers, creating and refreshing systems which help to organise team activity, supporting the development of social media channels, website and online engagement, using marketing to raise the profile of the team and assisting with evaluation work including data inputting.

For more information about our team and to download the full job description and personal specification for this role please visit www.cultureleicestershire.co.uk/apply

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have previous experience in an administrative role demonstrating flexibility when supporting multiple team members with conflicting and changing priorities
• Show meticulous attention to detail, ensuring clear and concise communication with different styles for different audiences
• Have excellent IT skills, particularly Word, Excel, Outlook etc, and have the ability to learn and utilise a variety of software including online applications such as Canva and WordPress
• Be able to input and retrieve a variety of data accurately and effectively and to produce reports
• Have experience in using different social media platforms professionally, optimising content to further build audiences and encourage interaction and engagement with communities and partners

For all essential criteria please see the job description / person specification which can be downloaded here www.cultureleicestershire.co.uk/apply

Equal opportunities

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.

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:

Louise Sharples

louise.sharples@leics.gov.uk

or

Bethany Nugent

bethany.nugent@leics.gov.uk

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 '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: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

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.