About the role
The Education Capital and Places Planning Team have exciting opportunities for strategic thinkers who want to make a difference to the lives of Cambridgeshire’s children. These permanent positions are ideally suited to those with excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills who excel working on long term, complex projects.
The team has a statutory responsibility to provide sufficient early years and childcare, school and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities places across Cambridgeshire. We work closely with Early Years settings, schools, Academy Trusts, the Department of Education, planning teams, developers, consultants and contractors to achieve this.
There are three positions available, a full time post with an Early Years focus, a full time post with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities focus and a 0.8 post with a Capital Education focus. If you are invited to interview you will be asked which position you would prefer, or whether you would like to be considered for all the opportunities.
Applicants need to be educated to degree level or equivalent and be able to demonstrate their excellent project management skills, commitment to Equality and Diversity and ability to think strategically.
We will consider applications for full or part time working, subject to being able to deliver the overall team capacity required.
More information can be found in the attached job description.
Please be aware that the scope of these roles are under review and changes to the job description are likely to be made in the future. The skills, knowledge and experience of successful candidates will be considered during this process.
Interviews will take place on 13th and 14th June.
For informal enquiries about the roles with an Early Years or Capital focus, please contact Rachael Pinion at rachael.pinion@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
For informal enquires about the role with a SEND focus, please contact Clare Cook at clare.cook@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefits
We 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
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.
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.
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