Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Are you inquisitive, analytical, and creative? Do you want to develop valuable project management and business analyst experience with options to progress? Then you may be interested in a new role in the Social Care and Education Project Management team.
Join us as a Junior Business Analyst, where your role will be to work with key stakeholders to deliver initiatives that further the strategic and operational aims of the Social Care and Education department. You will do this by undertaking investigations and analysis of a variety of projects being delivered, supporting senior managers to make decisions.
You'll work with project managers, business analysts and supporting staff in a recognised team, with opportunities to learn, shadow, and develop your analytical and project management skillset.
The role is hybrid, meaning most of your working time will be spent at home, with the expectation that you work from a city council office at least once a week. When working in the office, you'll be based at Halford House, but may be required to travel across the city to undertake visits and attend meetings.
This is a career graded post starting at LG Band 5 £27,711 - £30,060 Per Year, with options to progress to Band 6 £31,067 - £33,366 Per Year pending satisfactory checks or progress into a Business Analyst role (pending vacancy availability and satisfactory checks).
This is a full-time post, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. On occasions, you may be required to work evenings to attend meetings. We offer flexible and agile working to promote a healthy work-life balance.
What you'll be doing
In this role, you will be supporting the delivery of important, strategic initiatives by developing and demonstrating your abilities to investigate issues, analyse data, and report information - to assist key decision making.
On a day-to-day basis, you will be meeting and working with a range of stakeholders across the Social Care & Education department to source, collect, and understand information used to progress projects that instigate change.
You'll use this information to create documents, plans and designs that you will use to present recommendations/ solutions to decision makers.
You'll report to the Senior Business Analyst in the team, and will be part of a growing team of Business Change Commissioning Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Project Officers - that have a wealth of experience for delivering initiatives that instigate change.
What you'll need
We are looking for someone that has an enthusiasm for fact-finding, analysis, and sharing ideas.
If you are:
* Analytical
* A problem solver
* Inquisitive
* Interested in business analysis
* Interested in project management
* Looking to develop and progress your career
Then please consider reviewing the job specification and applying for this exciting post.
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.
Join us
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 an informal discussion, please contact Adam Lacey on 01164542282 or Adam.Lacey@Leicester.gov.uk
Assessments will take place on the 29th April with interviews the 7th May and 8th May. #J-18808-Ljbffr