Searches Assistant

About the role
A vacancy has arisen for a motivated individual to help fulfil the Council’s statutory searches function, delivering in a fast-paced but rewarding role in the Highway Records Team. We have a strong can-do culture motivated by protecting the Highway Authority’s interests and achieving the best outcomes for our customers and stakeholders.

The Searches Assistant role is in our busy Highway Records Team, which deals with thousands of requests for highway-related information each year. Cambridgeshire is one of the fastest growing areas in the country, the advertised role is central to the Council’s response to demand in the housing market, delivering accurate and timely information to purchasers of land and property, developers, utilities firms and other parties with a stake in the County’s growth. As an essential part of the conveyancing process, the post holder will be responsible for answering all CON29 enquiries of the authority, alongside a range of other queries, and will also support the Team to deliver its core records and data management projects.

What will you be doing?
You will support the Team and the wider Highways Maintenance Service in providing an accurate and efficient searches function that is fully cost-recoverable. You will use a range of different software packages to work with partner organisations to ensure key delivery timeframes are met and that our various customers and stakeholders are satisfied. By developing your knowledge of the geography of the entire County, getting to grips with highway records and legal principles, and becoming familiar with spatial data and related software, you will enhance your ability to respond to colleague enquiries and to support the delivery of specialist records management and data improvement projects.

About 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 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.

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