Senior Business Officer

2 weeks ago


Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Cambridge County Council Full time

As a Senior Business Officer, you will play a key role in ensuring efficient service delivery and supporting our team in meeting the needs of our community. The successful candidate will be part of a highly motivated team, working closely with a range of professionals and communicating with a variety of stakeholders and colleagues at all levels. Delivering an effective service and outcomes for our Children and Young People. This will include a high level of support to the team in relation to gathering data and fulfilling a management administrative role within meetings and supporting panels as required.

For more information contact Suzanne Parrish on

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

  • Flexible working
  • Flexible Bank Holidays
  • A comprehensive wellbeing package
  • Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
  • A comprehensive pension scheme.
  • IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
  • Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
  • An employee recognition scheme

We would like to hear from you if you would like to be part of our conscientious and passionate team

What will you be doing?

Key duties and responsibilities include:

  • Provide high-quality administrative support, offering creative solutions to operational challenges.
  • Lead and motivate a team of Business Officers, ensuring their success through regular coaching and support, and overseeing their daily activities and workloads.
  • Coordinate and support ongoing projects, contributing to the continuous improvement of our services.
  • Collaborate with other Senior Business Officers to maintain consistency and excellence in our practices.
  • Support changes that impact the Business Support workforce and provide advice to service/team managers and their teams - reallocating resources as required
About you

You will be an organised, calm, and proactive person who is motivated to work independently and as part of the wider team to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people. You will also have:

  • Strong management skills as you will be line managing staff.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Experienced in Windows and Microsoft packages.
  • Experienced in minute-taking and administrative support.
  • Exceptional team-working abilities with a knack for influencing and leading others.
  • A positive, can-do attitude with a commitment to learning and professional growth.
  • Excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage workload effectively.
  • A customer-focused approach and the ability to build strong working relationships.
  • Be willing to share your knowledge and experience with your colleagues

How to Apply: If you are ready to join a team dedicated to making a difference, please submit your application along with a supporting statement addressing the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification. We look forward to hearing from you

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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