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…
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A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
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Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
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Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
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Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
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Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
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Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
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Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
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Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
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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.
About the role
Cambridgeshire is one of the fastest growing counties in the UK, with extensive current and planned new towns and associated infrastructure. Through the archaeological programmes that are part of this development, the council believes in using heritage and archaeology to help develop a connection between new and existing communities.
This role focusses on the heritage and stories of Northstowe new town and the A14 trunk road upgrade. Supported by National highways and Homes England, we are opening a heritage exhibition space in the secondary school to display the objects and stories from these projects alongside those of the local community. This role will be responsible for that space, and will also use the wider collections to engage with residents.
Although this role is to drive heritage engagement for the short term, we are hoping to produce a heritage strategy that identifies longer term plans and opportunities for the that shape heritage in this new community for the future.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Quinton Carroll ([email protected]).
This role and the exhibition are fixed for 24 months but may be extended subject to funding.
What will you be doing?
Your main responsibility will be to develop and deliver heritage engagement across Northstowe, You will work with the local community, council officers, heritage interests and especially the Northstowe Learning Community. This will include making use of the county's archaeological collections, local spaces and heritage assets.
A key asset is the exhibition space, and you will be expected to maintain/manage that space, training and using volunteers to assist with its operation.
You will work with the Northstowe Heritage Stakeholder Group and as part of the council's Historic Environment Team, be a part of a wider archaeological service.
About you
You will have a background in archaeology, museums and/or community engagement, with expertise/experience in developing and delivering heritage community programmes. Experience with archaeological collections would be helpful, but more important is your ability to use physical objects to tell engaging and entertaining stories to all age groups.
A key partner is the Northstowe Learning Community, so experience within an educational environment would be beneficial.
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.
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