Job Description
The Communities Service sits within the Strategy & Partnerships directorate, and works in close partnership with both statutory organisations and the voluntary and community sector to support community development across Cambridgeshire.
The service wishes to appoint a fixed-term (one year) Project Support Officer to help deliver an ambitious programme of capital projects across the County.
Interviews will be held week commencing 3rd June 2024
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact:
Jill.Buckingham@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or Adam.Garford@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
The Project Support Officer role has been created to support the delivery of the Cambridgeshire Priorities Capital Fund (CPCF), a £1M funding programme of 26 community capital grants, awarded to village halls, parish councils, schools and voluntary organisations across Cambridgeshire to support the upgrading and improving of community assets.
The PSO will ensure the grant programme is delivered in line with the Council's Grants to External Organisations Policy.
About youYou will be highly organised and motivated, and able to communicate effectively with a range of different stakeholders. You will be proactive and able to work under own initiative within guidelines.
You will have an excellent understanding of project management and previous experience of working within a project support role. You will have the confidence to follow up on actions, chase submissions, etc.
You will have advanced level experience of using MS Excel for creating/ maintaining spreadsheets, and conducting data analysis, and experience of using SharePoint for managing documents and version control.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers