Overview
Project Support Officer – PE28 4YE
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
In November 2024, the Department for Education published the policy statement ‘Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive: Breaking down the barriers to opportunity’, outlining the vision and core legislative proposals for children’s social care. This followed the December 2023 National Framework for Children’s Social Care, which detailed the vision for the system and desired outcomes.
The Families First Partnership programme has been established to support reforms, aiming to take a whole- system approach to rebalancing children’s social care towards early intervention.
Following the launch, we are building additional local capacity to drive forward these changes to ensure that children and families in our local area benefit from earlier help and stronger support. This is an exciting time of change and a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping one of the most significant national shifts in children’s social care in recent decades.
We are seeking an enthusiastic Project Support Officer to support the Families First Partnership Programme. The is a full-time, fixed term post for 24 months.
This role is part of the Change and Service Improvement Team which brings programmes, projects and service improvement together to design, develop and deliver the Council’s major change portfolio and support Cambridgeshire County Council’s strategic ambitions.
For more information or to arrange a chat about this opportunity, please contact Jemma.Roberts@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
About you
To succeed in this role, you will have a good level of knowledge and understanding of:
- project management
- stakeholder engagement
- reporting and project tools to effectively manage and monitor projects and workstreams.
You will be:
- capable of coordinating a range of projects of varying complexity
- organised, with excellent time management skills, with ability to self-direct and work under own initiative
- keen to support positive project outcomes
- motivated to make a visible difference to our communities and drive forward change.
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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