Connect to Work Project Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | leicestershire, LE3 8RA |
| Cwmni: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 5627 |
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £47,694 - £52,155
Working Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Fixed term until 31st March 2030
Closing Date: 17th July 2025
Interview Date(s): 24th and 25th July 2025
Leicestershire County Council’s Adult Learning Service is seeking a highly motivated Project Manager to lead and oversee the effective and efficient delivery of the Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) offer for adults across Leicestershire.
About the Role
Connect to Work aims to support disabled people, people with health conditions and people from disadvantaged groups with multiple and complex barriers to move into and maintain employment.
The Connect to Work Manager will:
• Ensure excellent communication of the project(s) aims and objectives to key partners to ensure the programme is widely understood internally and externally by all stakeholders including senior leaders in LCC.
• Identify and engage employers, project partners, groups and individuals in the community including specified groups to ensure the target audience have access to high quality employment information, advice, guidance and support (in line with Matrix Standards) to meet programme aims.
• Ensure that the priority areas of work identified are delivered on time and within budget to ensure programme objectives and outcomes are achieved.
• Identify, liaise and build excellent relationships with relevant partners across Leicestershire, and offer bespoke projects as necessary across the County to ensure consistent high-quality support to job seeking individuals. Furthermore, this will include the need to work closely with the wider LALS curriculum team to optimise the learning offer.
• Take the lead on developing and maintaining accessible client and partner feedback systems, and data collection processes and procedures to ensure accessible, high quality and appropriate programmes, courses and referral pathways are offered.
• Report to the Connect to Work Project Board, providing accurate and timely updates on progress against agreed outcomes and milestones, and identify any risks and mitigating actions.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About you
Applicants must have recent experience of successfully managing a team to deliver similar high-profile, time-limited programmes - a key element to the success of the project will be the ability to motivate and manage a geographically dispersed team. Knowledge of the current challenges faced by local communities in the context of unemployment is also essential and an understanding of the barriers to employment faced by the project’s target groups (e.g., those with a disability or long-term health condition, ex-offenders, homeless people, care experienced young people or care workers, etc.) would be an advantage.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent networking and negotiating skills which will allow them to establish good working relationships with a wide range of internal and external partners to ensure the success of the project. They will have excellent report writing and presentation skills as well as being competent in IT and data management such that they can meet the reporting needs of the programme.
Furthermore, they will have excellent communication skills which allow them to understand and respond proactively to the needs and expectations of internal and external customers. They will also use customer feedback and management information effectively to guide continuous service improvement and maximise programme performance.
You must also demonstrate understanding of, and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion with staff, clients and partners, 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.
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:
Andrew Day - Senior Adult Learning Manager (Skills)
Telephone: 0116 305 1134
Email: andrew.day@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 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.
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