Overview
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
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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
About the role
Cambridgeshire County Council is offering an exciting opportunity to join the Design and Delivery Team in a senior management role.
The Design and Delivery Team deliver diverse and varied programmes of work throughout Cambridgeshire working within our communities to improve our infrastructure and active travel potential.
This role will be responsible for the following portfolio –
Delivering Transport Strategy Aims & Section 106 – You will lead on the design and delivery of a varied, capitally funded portfolio of improvement projects countywide across our DTSA & S106 programmes. This will be a mixture of design only, design and construct, and construction projects which will vary in complexity and stakeholder interest.
Some projects will span multiple years and involve land acquisition, whilst others will be in year. A lot of projects will be active travel related, with a focus on delivering improvements which our communities have been actively engaged in, and been empowered to influence throughout the design stages.
About you
You will be capable of leading a team of industry experts delivering design and construction projects. Your ability to influence our strategic direction and communicate with a range of stakeholders and teams will be essential in this role
You will need to work closely with our in-house design team to design and deliver an integrated work programme. Collaboration, enthusiasm, determination, and an attention to detail are a must, as well as a focus on delivering value for money and getting it right first time for our communities.
You will be responsible for ensuring that health, safety, and wellbeing are at the heart of everything we do and deliver. All three roles will include the line management of project management professionals and apprentices who you will help reach their potential.
For an informal conversation please contact Joshua Rutherford, Group Manager Design & Delivery via email – Joshua.rutherford@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Please ensure your covering letter is no more than 2 pages, and clearly identifies which of the three roles available you are applying for.
Applications are reviewed weekly, please do not delay the submission of your application as this is a rolling advert and will be closed once successful candidates have been found.
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
