Jobs at Nottingham City Council

Provides reception and administrative support at Family Hubs, including greeting visitors, managing room bookings, maintaining records and resources, producing reports, and conducting health and safety checks. The role may support family group interventions, requires safeguarding awareness, confidentiality, accurate work, strong communication, Microsoft Office proficiency, an enhanced DBS check with barred list check, and the ability to travel between hubs using a vehicle.

Provides practical HR advice across employment matters, develops policies and procedures, supports organisational change, and contributes to strategic HR projects. The role involves interpreting employment law, engaging trade unions and stakeholders, supporting consultation and negotiation, and delivering improvements across recruitment, attendance, employee relations, equality, pay, reward, compliance, and workforce strategy.

Provides specialist HR advice to managers on attendance, performance, capability, probation, and employee relations cases. Supports formal meetings, hearings, policy compliance, training delivery, workforce data analysis, job evaluation, wellbeing initiatives, and HR policy development. The role manages complex caseloads, coaches managers, collaborates with senior leaders and trade unions, and helps minimize legal and operational risk across the Council.

Assist with managing electric vehicle infrastructure projects and programmes for Leicestershire County Council. Responsibilities include project governance and reporting, financial monitoring, risk management, stakeholder relationship management, and helping ensure highway schemes are delivered on time, to the required quality, and within budget. The role involves working with internal and external partners and supporting accessible, customer-focused public services.

Supports a Project Manager and Assistant Project Managers delivering electric vehicle infrastructure highway projects. Responsibilities include preparing project documentation, tracking timelines and budgets, assisting with risk management, reporting, quality assurance, stakeholder coordination, and workload management. The role requires strong communication, presentation, report-writing, problem-solving, and Microsoft Office skills, alongside experience working with internal and external partners in an office environment.

Provides administrative and project support for Family Help workstreams, including Best Start Family Hubs, Early Help Facilitation, and Parenting Support. Responsibilities include coordinating website and social media updates, managing inboxes and communications, maintaining records and distribution lists, collating data, supporting reporting requirements, assisting with events, and monitoring budgets across funding streams.

Provides specialist planning and highways legal advice to Leicestershire County Council, covering planning committees, major developments, Section 106 obligations, enforcement, appeals, and infrastructure matters. Advises senior officers and elected Members, represents the council at committees, negotiates complex planning agreements, and delivers practical advice on contentious planning issues. The role also involves stakeholder communication, legal research, case management, mentoring, and working accurately under pressure.

Lead enterprise messaging technologies within a large council IT environment, maintaining secure, stable, reliable services for approximately 5,500 customers. Supervise technical staff, manage priorities, support IT service management processes, lead infrastructure projects, coordinate suppliers, and oversee solution design, testing, documentation, disaster recovery, and major incident response. Provide technical direction, resolve complex problems, manage risks, mentor colleagues, and ensure successful delivery of business-critical outcomes.

Collects, cleanses, manages, models, and analyzes spatial and non-spatial housing data. Creates maps, visualizations, reports, web-based GIS solutions, and research outputs using GIS, Power BI, and Business Objects. Maintains data quality and digital spatial datasets, supports evidence-based housing service planning, ensures data regulations are followed, and collaborates with Housing Services, the Corporate GIS Team, and other Council departments.

Provides administrative and operational support to the Universal Credit and Rents Team. Responsibilities include maintaining accurate records, processing financial transactions, monitoring inboxes, supporting Universal Credit activities, managing tenant and applicant enquiries, delivering customer service, and ensuring compliance with council policies, procedures, and data protection requirements.

Provides strategic leadership for the council’s IT Infrastructure function, overseeing enterprise systems and architecture, communications and networks, and technical assurance. The role manages complex infrastructure services, leads business transformation and large-scale change, supports corporate objectives, and works with stakeholders across a large, multidisciplinary organisation. Participation in an on-call rota is required.

Provides administrative and business support to children’s social care teams. Responsibilities include handling calls, arranging meetings and travel, drafting correspondence, maintaining databases, processing funding and procurement paperwork, managing payments and reconciliations, and coordinating looked-after children’s health assessment processes. The role requires strong organization, communication, confidentiality, Microsoft Office skills, and accurate meeting minute-taking in a hybrid council environment.

Lead and supervise business support services for Children in Care and Leaving Care teams. Manage administrative operations including financial payments, allowances, accommodation support, supplier payments, petty cash, Oracle Fusion transactions, Liquidlogic administration, statutory processes, workforce planning, and performance monitoring. Support staff development, service improvement, workload prioritization, and effective collaboration with social workers, managers, and partner agencies while maintaining high-quality customer-focused services.

Leads strategic communications and marketing for Nottingham City Council, advising senior leaders and elected members, developing campaigns, managing stakeholder relationships, and overseeing engagement activity. The role manages and develops a multidisciplinary team, drives continuous improvement, supports organisational priorities, and navigates sensitive, high-profile issues with political awareness and sound judgement.

Supports the Highway Network Management team by administering highway licensing and streetworks activities, coordinating works on Nottingham’s highway network, and maintaining service outputs. The role requires customer-focused communication with internal and external stakeholders, strong organization, teamwork, independent working, IT proficiency, and willingness to learn and comply with highways legislation.

Provides administrative, financial, and performance support for housing development and refurbishment programmes. Responsibilities include cost estimating, budget monitoring, project administration, data analysis, performance reporting, governance support, stakeholder coordination, records management, milestone tracking, and monitoring risks, defects, actions, and project outcomes.

Lead Nottingham City Council’s transactional finance teams across income, banking, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, reconciliations, and suspense clearance. Ensure accurate, timely, compliant transactions, month-end delivery, KPI performance, and effective reporting. Manage the relationship with East Midlands Shared Services, drive process improvements, maintain financial controls, and coach and develop finance staff while supporting council-wide financial sustainability.

Develop and maintain financial models for Nottingham City Council’s Medium Term Financial Plan. Project funding streams including Business Rates, Council Tax, grants, and Revenue Support Grant; assess the financial impact of service demand and legislative changes; monitor grants and reliefs; complete statutory returns; and provide analysis and advice to senior leaders on long-term financial sustainability.

Lead Willow Brook Primary School into its next chapter by preserving and developing its creative curriculum, inspiring staff, building strong relationships with families and the community, and shaping the school’s future with warmth, integrity, and high expectations.

Provide financial management support to maintained schools and academies, including budgeting, forecasting, statutory returns, financial reporting, compliance, and use of financial systems. Advise school leaders, business managers, and governors, while promoting best practice and developing the traded service through customer growth, sales, and revenue opportunities. The role also requires strong analysis, communication, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving skills.