Highway Records Officer

What will you be doing?

• Responding to CON29 search requests and highway boundary enquiries
• Investigating the extent of publicly maintained highway
• Maintaining and updating highway adoption records and digital mapping systems
• Analysing historic and legal documents to determine highway status
• Providing professional advice to customers, colleagues and partners
• Supporting delivery of new highway schemes and ensuring accurate adoption records
• Managing responses to Section 116 and Section 247stopping‑upapplications
• Contributing to process improvements and service development

About you

You’ll be someone who enjoys problem‑solving, research and working with maps and legal information. You’ll have strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to interpret historic records, plans and boundary evidence. 

You’ll also be confident communicating with a wide range of customers and stakeholders, including landowners, developers, parish councils and internal colleagues. You’ll be organised, able to manage your workload to meet published timeframes, and comfortable working both independently and as part of a collaborative team. 

Experience in highways, transport, records management, land charges, planning, legal services or a similar technical environment is beneficial, but not essential if you can demonstrate the right skills and aptitude.

Next steps 

If you’re ready to help shape the future of Cambridgeshire’s highway records and want a role that blends investigation, mapping, and customer engagement, we’d love to hear from you.

If you have questions or would like an informal chat about the role, please contact Daniel Ashman, Highway Records and Definitive Map Manager, via daniel.ashman@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

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

The Place & Sustainability Directorate is responsible for shaping Cambridgeshire’s infrastructure, environment and communities. Our Highway Records & Definitive Map Team ensures that the county’s public access network is legally protected, accurately recorded and well‑managed. 

We are modernising our services, digitising our records and strengthening our approach to major development and infrastructure projects. You’ll be joining a supportive, collaborative team committed to delivering high‑quality services and continuous improvement. 

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