Overview
Project Manager – New Shire Hall, Alconbury, United Kingdom
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 the role
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to support the delivery of Cambridgeshire County Council’s Change portfolio on a fixed term basis until March 2028. Reporting to a Programme Manager, you will play a key role in planning, managing and delivering projects that support the Council’s strategic ambitions and deliver meaningful outcomes for residents, services and partners.
This is an important role within the Change and Delivery Service, working collaboratively across services and the wider system to deliver complex projects from initiation through to successful handover and closure. You will use the Council’s project management methodologies, standards and tools to manage plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, budgets and reporting.
As Project Manager, you will work closely with stakeholders at all levels to shape project scope, coordinate resources, support effective governance and maintain momentum across delivery. You will provide clear information to programme governance, identify and escalate delivery risks, and act as a trusted source of project management expertise for colleagues and partners.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact pmo@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
About you
You will be an experienced project manager with a strong understanding of project and change management methodologies, tools and techniques, and the ability to apply these in a complex organisational environment. You will bring proven experience of managing projects from initiation through to delivery, coordinating resources, risk management, budget monitoring and delivering sustainable service improvements.
You will be confident working across organisational boundaries, able to build strong professional relationships and influence a wide range of stakeholders. You will be comfortable analysing complex information, translating ideas into practical plans, and providing clear advice and reporting to support good decision making.
You will have excellent communication, planning and organisational skills, with high standards of accuracy and the ability to work to tight deadlines. You will be resilient, collaborative and proactive, with the confidence to constructively challenge, hold others to account and support colleagues to deliver their best.
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.
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.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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