Head of Strategy - Education Sufficiency (Internal Applicants Only) chez Leicestershire County Council

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS 

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA 

Worker Category:  Hybrid Worker

Salary: £72,024 - £81,300 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 Per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date:  19th November 2025

Interview Date(s): 26th November 2025 

About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced strategic leader to head our School Organisation and Admissions Service. This pivotal role covers planning, organisation, development, and access to schools, including:

• Planning school places and managing Section 106 developer contributions
• Overseeing the basic needs capital programme
• Managing admissions and related pupil services
• Establishing new schools (including free schools)
• Supporting schools through organisational change, including academy conversions, MAT transitions, and age range changes

You will provide high-quality leadership, strategic direction, and management for a portfolio of services, ensuring effectiveness, improvement, and efficiency. As part of the senior management team, you will contribute to departmental strategy and lead cross-departmental and multi-agency initiatives.

This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement.

• Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject, or equivalent relevant experience
• Significant achievement at a senior level in a large, complex organisation
• Delivering major projects and managing service improvements
• Effective resource management (human and financial)
• Managing performance and service quality
• Leading transformational change in complex environments
• Collaborative multi-agency partnership working

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:

Tim Browne, Assistant Director, Education, Inclusion and Additional Needs

Telephone: 0116 305 7429

Email: [email protected] 

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. 

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. 

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