Leicester City Council
Digital and Systems Project Manager

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Reference: REQ7508
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Part Time / 30 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term until March 2028
This is an exciting opportunity to lead on the delivery of a variety of projects for digital systems for Social care and Education teams that serve the people of Leicester. You'll play a key role in working with internal teams as well as regional and national NHS, Education and other partnership organisations to identify and deliver digital system solutions, along with improving business processes, managing training delivery and support of systems. Within this role you'll manage a mixed team of trainers, systems support officers and support analysts. In addition, you'll work with a variety of other colleagues from social care and education teams to co-ordinate and deliver successful systems improvements.
This is a part time, fixed term position working 30 hours per week Monday to Friday (until March 2028). Your working hours will be agreed at appointment. You'll have flexibility in hybrid working being both office based, at Halford house or working remotely from home to suit the service needs with the expectation to spend at least 2 days a week in the office. However, on occasion you'll be required to work in an agile manner across multiple sites to fit the needs of the service.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Project Manager you’ll be responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of a range of ICT related projects to enhance social care and education systems, ensuring effective and efficient delivery of improvements and project outcomes based on business objectives. You’ll manage and maintain a range of project management tools, such as project plans, risk and issue logs, system support documentation as well as lessons learned logs and financial records.
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You’ll work closely with a range of operational social care and education teams, corporate ICT colleagues, team members, NHS, Education and other partnership organisations as well as systems providers to ensure project aims and objectives are realised. And oversee the support of existing systems.
What You’ll Need
The right person will have a proven track record (within the last two years) in team management and project management experience as well as demonstrate good organisational and communication skills. Your experience should include developing innovative systems, including various stages of testing, training delivery and successful deployment with systems support management experience.
You should have good presentation and meeting management skills, demonstrating your experience of working with a range of individuals and groups at a variety of levels.
Also required is good analytical skills e.g. ability to gather, interpret and report on complex data/information to leading to solving problems.
What We Can Offer You
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.


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We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For queries before applying, feel free to contact Manish.Bharadia@leicester.gov.uk
Interviews will take place week commencing 5th October 2026.
Region: Central
Location: Halford House
Salary: GBP35,880 - GBP38,647 Per Year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP52,454
Contractual hours: 30
Basis: Part time,
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