About the role
Service Director – People & Culture
Up to £114,988
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live. Our vision is to create a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire, and we’re quietly proud of what we’ve already achieved. But places never stop evolving; and as we look ahead to significant potential change in Cambridgeshire’s democratic arrangements, we know that consistent high performance, strong culture and a shared understanding of ‘what good looks like’ is also the best inheritance we can offer to those who will follow us.
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you’ll work influentially and strategically across agendas including organisational design, organisational development, and culture (including equality, diversity and inclusion). You’ll be an experienced, inspiring and knowledgeable expert on the full range of people and workforce issues, including employee relations. We’re looking for an impressive track record of leaving organisations stronger than you find them, and your credibility, integrity and resilience will set you apart.
There are no armchair-rides in local government HR, but if you need a signal about people issues being taken seriously at a strategic level, you need look no further than your line manager – a Chartered Companion of the CIPD. So if you’re ready to bring your professional skills and insight to a well-managed and high-performing organisation, with a strong and ambitious culture of continuous improvement, we want to hear from you.
Please visit www.faerfield.co.uk/CCC to find out more. For an informal discussion about the role please contact Rob Naylor or Ben Cox on 0121 592 2165.
Closing date: 13 July 2025.
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 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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