About The Role
Role:Transformation and Strategy Graduate
Location: Chorley and South Ribble
Contract:Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Fixed Term Contract (24 months)
Salary:£29,540 - £31,022
Closing Date: 31 August 2025
As a graduate in Change and Delivery, you’ll support our HR, Business Intelligence, Performance and Transformation teams over a two-year period, whilst learning valuable skills to develop your career.
The local government landscape is evolving and we're looking for a graduate to play a central role in delivering exciting projects and services that have real and tangible outcomes for people’s daily lives.
This position involves a two-year placement which will enable you to gain insight into the corporate services at the heart of our organisations, working across both Chorley and South Ribble Council. This will offer you the unique opportunity to experience working across two councils with individual priorities. You will experience sector leading innovation as well as getting hands on to play a vital role in delivering high profile pieces of work that make a real difference to our residents.
What you’ll be getting up to
You’ll rotate around these services within the Change and Delivery team. This includes:
* Performance and Insight – understand and assist this team to drive and maintain high levels of performance across both councils
* Business intelligence - support the development and use of data to inform strategic decision-making and service delivery
* Transformation and Policy – Support transformation projects across the councils and strategy development that shape our future direction for residents and businesses.
You’ll support the teams’ day-to-day operations, but also have the opportunity to work on exciting projects to improve the service.
Who we’re looking for
* We’re looking for determined graduates who can take ownership of problems.
* You’ll be confident and able to work collaboratively with colleagues around the organisation.
* You’ll be a great communicator. Our Change and Delivery team works with every corner of the organisation, so you’ll need to be able to understand, analyse and present information effectively.
* You’ll have a minimum 2:2 degree.
Our Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
* Hybrid/agile working from day one
* Local Government pension
* Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
* Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
* Volunteering days
* Free parking
Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.
About Us
Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separatestrategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.
We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.
If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
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