About Us

At Leicester City Council, we’re more than 12,500 people, all working together to serve the people, communities and businesses of the biggest city in the East Midlands. We have a directly elected mayor and 54 councillors, representing 21 wards. As a unitary authority, we take decisions that affect thousands of lives every day. From social services and schools, to housing and roads, to setting council tax and providing leisure facilities. Join us and you’ll play a role in improving the lives of the 348,000 people who call Leicester home. This is a fantastic opportunity to join us. Your key responsibility will be to ensure that all legal preliminaries to and all ceremonies are in accordance with statute, with a positive customer experience. You’ll be joining us at a time when there are significant changes coming to civil marriage registration, and you’ll take the lead in implementing these exciting changes. You’ll be an experienced manager able to train your team on these new changes and guide religious leaders and trustees of places of worship through the transition. You’ll also be responsible for the processing of applications for approval of venues for civil marriage & religious marriage and ensuring their on-going compliance with statute. Excellent at public speaking, you’ll be able to conduct a ceremony with more than 100 people with ease. If you have a background in registration and are keen to put your passion for change, along with your dynamic and versatile skills to use in a modernizing service, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. Please complete our online application form, referring to the attached person specification and ensuring you tell us about your experience and knowledge where this is being measured by application form. Should you wish to attach a CV please ensure this is tailored to the job requirements which will give you the best chance of being shortlisted. Additional information Weekend working will be frequent as will the need to be contactable at weekends for teams on duty performing ceremonies. We are looking to appointment one full time candidate. Our service is committed to providing customers a service from 8.30am every day, finishing at 5pm Monday – Thursday and 4.30pm finish on a Friday. We do not therefore offer flexible working. We may however consider a part time candidate if they are already doing a similar job elsewhere.