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 Programmes and Service Improvement Team works on the council's major change portfolio and is responsible for corporate programme/project delivery, support for business analysis and business change and, implementation and monitoring of benefits realisation.
Interview date:16/17 August
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Jane Hargrave (jane.hargrave@cambridgeshire.gov.uk) or Tel: 07585 881939
What will you be doing?
As Project Support Officer you will support the Programme and Project Managers to oversee a range of across the whole council. Working effectively, in line with the council’s Project Management methodologies and standards to manage the production and maintenance of key documentation such as project plans, highlight reports, Risk, Actions, Issues Decisions (RAID) logs, and formal and informal meeting and workshop documentation.
The Project Support Officer will be required to communicate well across project/programme stakeholders, within the Programme and Service Improvement Team, staff groups, partner organisations and stakeholder groups within directorates.
A key function of the role will be to support to ensure project team members fully utilise the MS Project Online system (POWA). Advising and assisting project team members in the application of project procedures and disciplines, taking responsibility for recording and reporting on standards throughout the project lifecycle.
About you
You will have a good level of knowledge and understanding of:
- project management
- stakeholder engagement
- reporting and project tools to effectively manage and monitor projects and workstreams.
You will be:
- capable of coordinating a range of projects of varying complexity
- organised with excellent time management skills, with ability to self-direct and work under own initiative
- keen to support positive project outcomes
- motivated to make a visible difference to our communities and drive forward change.
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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