Participation Team Assistant
- Leicestershire County Council
- Full Time
- Glenfield
Job Description
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 2025 for maternity leave cover
Closing Date: 2nd April 2025
Interview Date(s): 10th April 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
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.
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