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GCP communications and engagement officer
Job Reference Ref/53772/6305
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
The communications and engagement officer will join a busy team and will work with the communications managers and broader Greater Cambridge Partnership on the promotion, communication and, ultimately, delivery of high profile, multi-million pound projects, with a focus on communication, public engagement and consultation.
The role will work with colleagues across the organisation on the delivery of our communications strategy to engage with our audiences and make sure that the public are able to input and give us feedback on our projects.
This is a hybrid role, with the office base in Cambridge.
For more information, or to chat about this opportunity, please email tony.taylorson@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
What will you be doing?
We want you to tell our stories and make things happen. From writing content for a newsletter to going out to an event to meet and greet members of the public, to collating and sending an update on print, broadcast and social media coverage to the team, you will have the opportunity to
There are no typical days – one minute you can be joining a Teams call to update the project team on planning and preparation for a public consultation you’re leading, the next you can be developing new photography, writing a script or researching venues to book for a public meeting.
The opportunities are there for you to learn about communications from an established team which is looking to focus on proactive engagement ensuring residents and communities understand the benefits of the GCP.
About you
You should be curious, enthusiastic and ready for anything. A background in local government or transport isn’t essential: an appetite to learn new things is. You’ll be flexible, motivated, responsive, and able to work under your own initiative, with strong attention to detail.
More broadly, we’re looking for someone who wants to develop a career in communications as part of our team, supporting the Greater Cambridge Partnership deliver projects which will improve the lives of people living, working, studying, and playing in and around the city.
About us
Throughout history people have been finding faster, safer and more efficient ways to get around and make places more accessible. That resourcefulness and initiative endures today – and underpins the transport improvement programmes being delivered by the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP).
The GCP is the local delivery body that has been tasked with delivering the ‘city deal’ signed by central government in 2014, which is worth up to £500 million in funding to 2030 for infrastructure improvements to boost economic growth. The partnership of local authorities, business and academia works together to support the growth of Greater Cambridge.
We share values with our partner, Cambridgeshire County Council:
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.
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