About the role
Please note that the role is part-time (18.5 hours) and on a fixed term basis to 30/09/2025. The salary range quoted is for the equivalent full-time role.
This overall purpose of this job is to provide personal administrative support to senior leaders, to enable their key responsibilities and functions to be as efficient and effective as possible. This will include aspects of personal assistant support, agenda management and co-ordination and officer lead for key project areas.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Dawn Tapper dawn.tapper@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
What will you be doing?
You will play a key role in supporting business coordination and management support to the director and their management team, including a lot of diary coordination, attending meetings, taking minutes and distributing notes and agenda. The role will support the Service Director: Customer and Digital Services.
You will be the first point of contact for senior officers, councillors central government, internal and external partners.
You will actively seek out and develop improved ways of working to better support senior leaders, particularly with technology.
About you
You will have excellent organisational skills, able to prioritise and organise your own workload and use your initiative when required. You will have a demonstrable knowledge and understanding of general business administration processes. It would be helpful if you had experience in a similar role or transferable skills.
You will have a well-developed knowledge of business requirements such as HR and finance processes, information management, risk management business continuity.
We hope you will have a good understanding of public sector/local government services and how they are governed.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details.
Our benefits
Internal Candidates Only
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 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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