Commissioner

What will you be doing?

As a Commissioner, your day will be varied, engaging and full of opportunities to shape local services. Your responsibilities will include: 

Leading and supporting commissioning projects 

You will plan, coordinate and deliver commissioning activities, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and statutory responsibilities. This includes using market intelligence and evidence to shape service models, challenge existing approaches and contribute to benefit realisation. 

Engaging and collaborating with people and partners 

You’ll develop productive relationships with providers, partners, people with lived experience and operational teams. Co‑production and engagement are core to this role—ensuring services reflect community needs and promote positive outcomes.  

Support to drive market shaping and service improvement 

You will coordinate and support market‑shaping activities, contribute to innovative commissioning solutions and support timely responses to feedback, complaints or service concerns.  

Monitoring performance and supporting improvement 

You’ll play an active part in evaluating service delivery, identifying risks, tracking progress and promoting continuous improvement across the commissioning cycle.  

Working within a structured planning environment 

Your work will follow a monthly planning cycle aligned with the annual service plan, with autonomy to plan your weekly priorities in discussion with your line manager. You will have regular 1:1 supervision and monthly review points to support progress and remove barriers.  

Supporting colleagues and occasional deputising 

While you will not manage staff, you will contribute to coaching, sharing best practice and may act as a deputy for your manager when required.

About you

You will be  someone who is collaborative, analytical and passionate about improving outcomes for people. 

You will bring strong communication, relationship‑building and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams and sectors, experience contributing to or leading a commissioning cycle process, service development, or project‑based work, including coordinating delivery and tracking progress and the ability to analyse information, use data and insight to inform decisions, and apply value‑for‑money principles.

You will be a confident communicator, both written and verbally and will have the ability to develop reports, recommendations and accessible briefings. 

You will be comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity and change, with a proactive, solution‑focused mindset. You will also have a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion; safeguarding and contributing towards our Net Zero ambitions.

Please use your supporting statement in your application to outline how your skills and experience meet the essential criteria outlined in the Job Description/Person specification.

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 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 Leader. 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. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process 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