Overview
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
The communications and engagement officer will join a busy team and will work with the communications managers and broader Greater Cambridge Partnership on the promotion, communication and, ultimately, delivery of high profile, multi-million pound projects, with a focus on communication, public engagement and consultation.
The role will work with colleagues across the organisation on the delivery of our communications strategy to engage with our audiences and make sure that the public are able to input and give us feedback on our projects.
This is a hybrid role, with the office base in Cambridge.
For more information, or to chat about this opportunity, please email tony.taylorson@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
About you
You should be curious, enthusiastic and ready for anything. A background in local government or transport isn’t essential: an appetite to learn new things is. You’ll be flexible, motivated, responsive, and able to work under your own initiative, with strong attention to detail.
More broadly, we’re looking for someone who wants to develop a career in communications as part of our team, supporting the Greater Cambridge Partnership deliver projects which will improve the lives of people living, working, studying, and playing in and around the city.
About us
Cambridgeshire 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.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
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.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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