Senior Business Officer

4 months ago


Huntingdon, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time

About the role
Are you an ambitious and inspirational individual with the capability to make a difference to people’s lives?

Then we want to hear from you

Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a Senior Business Officer to support our Contracts and Brokerage Team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an established high performing team with an outstanding reputation for leading the way in our Adult’s Commissioning Directorate.

If you have the passion for putting social care at the heart of everything you do and the ambition to help shape our future, we would love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?
Be an individual who is focussed and flexible with the ability to work independently and as part of a bigger team.

You will be able to work under pressure to tight time scales with an ability to prioritise, organise and manage your own workload and have excellent interpersonal skills combined with the ability to represent the service in a positive and professional manner, including communicating with a wide range of stake holders and customers both internally and externally.

You will be able to handle and process large amounts of information coming into the team to ensure a professional and responsive approach is taken.

Carry out additional reasonable duties as required by the line manager.

To demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs

About you
Educated to GCSE Standard with Grade A-C in Maths and English or equivalent standard.

Extensive office administrative experience

Fully proficient at using IT systems, with a good working knowledge the Microsoft Office package

Knowledge of health and safety legislation

Knowledge of Data Protection and Equal Opportunities legislation and their requirements

Understanding of financial management, procedures, and processes

Able to prioritise workload

Able to consistently produce work of a high standard

Able to work on own initiative with mínimal supervision

Commitment to continuous service development

Adaptable and flexible to the needs of the Team with a willingness to learn and develop

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.

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.

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



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