Personal Assistant

Cambridgeshire County Council; Huntingdonshire; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is offering a full-time Personal Assistant role in the centralized Executive Support Service, supporting the Service Director: Infrastructure and Project Delivery. The position is fixed-term or on a secondment until 31 March 2027, with potential for extension, based at New Shire Hall.

You will work with a hub of Executive Assistants and Personal Assistants, with flexible working options and opportunities to develop professionally.

Qualifications

• Experience as an administrator.
• Strong organisational and technology skills.
• Willingness to work in a hybrid/flexible arrangement.

Responsibilities

• Provide Personal Assistant support to the Service Director: Infrastructure and Project Delivery.
• Assist with highways maintenance programmes and capital projects.
• Coordinate with executive assistants and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Organisational skills

Technology skills

Job description

Are you looking for a new challenge in an organisation committed to making a real difference to the residents of Cambridgeshire, and where you will play a vital role in supporting the organisation with its vision to deliver a 'healthy, fair and sustainable Cambridgeshire'. We have a full-time position available for the role of Personal Assistant which forms part of the Council's centralised Executive Support Service where you will work alongside a hub of Executive Assistants and Personal Assistants. The role is offered on a fixed term basis, or as a secondment to internal Cambridgeshire County Council officers, until 31 March 2027, with the possibility of further extension. The role will support the Service Director: Infrastructure and Project Delivery. The Service Director leads teams responsible for highways maintenance, complex infrastructure projects, asset management design and delivery, and commercial and contract management. These teams handle tasks such as repairing
potholes, managing complex highways programmes, providing design services for capital programmes, and ensuring value from supply chain partners. This role is based in our Headquarters of New Shire Hall, and we offer flexible working options and the ability to work on a hybrid basis.We are very much interested in developing people at all stages in their career and this presents as a fantastic opportunity for an already established administrator with good organisational and technology skills. An understanding of the services delivered at Cambridgeshire County Council, particularly those that would receive this Personal Assistant support, would be advantageous. If you think this could be the role for you, Corporate Business ManagerThe closing date for applications to be received via the Cambridgeshire County Council Recruitment Hub is
midnight on Monday 31 August 2026. Interviews will be held in-person at New Shire Hall on 9 September 2026. Please demonstrate in the supporting statement how you meet the essential criteria of the person specification.