About the role
Cambridgeshire County Council is offering exciting opportunities, across a number of roles, within the newly established Policy, Insights and Programmes Service.
Policy, Insights and Programmes has been designed to bring together the portfolios of research and insight, policy and strategy, service improvement, and programmes and projects together to create a cross-cutting corporate centre to support Cambridgeshire County Council's strategic ambitions.
The Governance & Performance team will be providing governance across all corporate programmes and projects, tracking performance, reporting progress to Corporate Leadership Team and Strategy & Resources committee, supporting our wider business as usual council-wide performance monitoring and reporting.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Richard Springbett, Governance & Performance Manager. Richard.Springbett@Cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Please note: Interviews for this role will take place week commencing 31st July
What will you be doing?
Reporting to the Governance and Performance Manager the Governance and Performance Officer will play an important role in supporting the development, review, monitoring and reporting of our performance, focusing on our Council-wide KPIs and our corporate, strategic KPIs. This role will also have a contributing role in effective management and governance across the entire portfolio of programmes and projects in the corporate Performance team.
Working with the services this role will help to ensure that the Governance and Performance team are able to provide updates and reports which support management in identifying areas of excellence and areas for improvements. The role will also support the smooth running of portfolio-wide board and gating meetings, the identification, reporting and escalation of risks and issues that require consideration at this level and an overview of all programme/project resourcing to provide early warning of resource constraints.
About you
- Ability to interpret and explain complex issues to a wide range of audiences, presenting complex data sets in a clear and meaningful way and skilled at writing and supporting the preparation of papers such as committee papers.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, with ability to self-direct and work under own initiative.
- Ability to approach problem solving in an adaptable and insightful way to provide innovative and beneficial solutions.
- Excellent set of inter-personal and communication skills – able to communicate with and influence a range of different stakeholders.
- Ability to negotiate with key partners and businesses to build collaborative solutions that recognise the diverse needs of our communities; Confidence to follow up on actions, chase submissions, etc.
- Ability to build support for new, and sometimes unpopular, ideas and processes.
- Ability to be proactive and take a systematic approach in the organisation of work.
- Ability to challenge where necessary with a wide range of stakeholders using good networking and influencing skills.
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 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.
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