Parking Administrator
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5505 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £25,998 - £27,273 per annum
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 06th July 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
About the Role:
The job purpose is to support the service, working as part of a small team providing parking enforcement and permit arrangements including being the first contact point for customers within legislative deadlines.
You will be responsible for investigating and responding to challenges and representations in line with the council’s procedures including preparing and producing correspondence for appeal hearings.
Your role will involve taking telephone calls from members of the public and providing advice on parking related matters.
You will process queries and reconcile payments in respect of penalty charge notices and resident parking permit queries.
Please note, we reserve the right to close this advert early should sufficient applications be received
About You:
To apply for this post, you must have:
- NVQ Level 3 (or NVQ 2 plus willingness to undertake Level 3) in Business and Administration or equivalent qualification plus experience as detailed below.
And
Demonstrable experience identified within the section below.
- Experience of administration and/or financial processes.
- Experience of working with the public, in particular dealing with irate or distressed customers by phone or in person.
- Experience in the use of Microsoft packages and/or in a wide variety of software packages, including databases.
- Ability to work flexibly and under pressure in order to meet tight deadlines with minimum supervision.
- Ability to produce work to a consistently high standard.
- The post holder must have the ability to converse with ease with customers and provide advice and information in accurate spoken English
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.
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:
Marianne Buckby Team Manager
0116 3052803
Marianne.buckby@leics.gov.uk or
Siobhan Lalley Senior Supervisor
Tel 0116 3052638
siobhan.lalley@leics.gov.uk
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 250 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+ 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 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 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: https://emss.org.uk/support.
By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme