Assistant Project Manager

Cambridge County Council; Alconbury; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

4 weeks additional annual leave

Flexible bank holidays

Pension AVCs and tax savings

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

Peer support groups (IDEAL)

Employee Recognition Awards

Cambs Rewards discounts

Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to help plan and deliver transport and infrastructure projects across the county. You will work alongside experienced project professionals to support delivery, engage with engineers, councillors, residents and partners, and contribute to improving local communities.

You will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in project management and infrastructure delivery, with a clear progression pathway from Assistant

Qualifications

• Experience in project delivery or project support.
• Interest in transport, planning or infrastructure.
• Ability to coordinate activities and manage deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of transport and infrastructure projects across the county.
• Work with engineers, contractors, councillors, residents and partner organisations.
• Help manage project programmes, budgets, risks and timescales.
• Support public consultations and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Prepare reports and project updates.
• Gain hands-on experience in project management and infrastructure delivery.
• Lead smaller projects as skills and confidence grow.

Skills

Strong communication

Organisational skills

Proactive

Collaborative

Problem solving

Willingness to learn

Job description

Build your career. Shape the future of Cambridgeshire.

Do you enjoy solving problems, working with people and seeing ideas become reality?

We're looking for ambitious and enthusiastic Assistant Project Managers to help deliver exciting transport and infrastructure projects in Cambridgeshire. From new walking routes to traffic calming to sustainable transport schemes, you'll help deliver projects that improve everyday life for thousands of residents.

The best part? You don't need to be an experienced Project Manager to apply.

If you're passionate about delivering great outcomes, enjoy working with a wide range of people and want to develop a professional career, we'll support you with training, mentoring and a structured progression pathway that can take you from Assistant Project Manager to Project Manager and beyond.

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.

What will you be doing?

As an Assistant Project Manager, you'll work alongside experienced project professionals to help plan and deliver transport and infrastructure projects across the county.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Support the delivery of projects that improve local communities.
• Work with engineers, contractors, councillors, residents and partner organisations.
• Help manage project programmes, budgets, risks and timescales.
• Support public consultations and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Prepare reports and project updates.
• Gain hands‑on experience in project management and infrastructure delivery.
• Lead smaller projects as your skills and confidence grow.

About you

We're more interested in your potential than ticking every box.

You might already have experience in:

• Project delivery or project support.
• Civil engineering or construction.
• Transport, planning or infrastructure.
• Coordinating activities and managing deadlines.
• Working with customers, communities or stakeholders.

You’ll also bring:

• Strong communication and organisation skills.
• A proactive approach and willingness to learn.
• The ability to work collaboratively with different people.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• A genuine interest in improving local communities.

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 Leader. 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. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process 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.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers