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Do you have a passion for managing and promoting volunteering and improving health outcomes for the community? If the answer is yes, then this could be the role for you.

You will be part of the Library Development Team, helping to shape the future of the service and reporting directly to the Library Development Manager and the wider Library Leadership Team. Your focus will be managing an award winning team to lead on the planning, development and delivery of volunteering and health projects within Cambridgeshire Libraries.

This is a hybrid role (the location of St Ives Library is nominal). You will be able to work flexibly, working from diverse locations, including home. There is an expectation that you will travel to library locations across the county, as required.

This is a permanent post at 37 hours per week.

Interviews will be held in person at Huntingdon Library on Friday 28th July 2023.

The key responsibilities of the role are:

• To develop, promote and co-ordinate volunteering opportunities across Cambridgeshire Library Service.
• To manage the award winning Library at Home service.
• To ensure the effective and efficient delivery of the Community Health Information Service, on behalf of CCC Public Health.

This full-time post will suit a self-motivated, organised, flexible individual with experience of developing volunteers and health related projects.

You will be required to work flexibly with a requirement for some weekend and evening working. The ability to travel around the county is essential.

All applications must be made online and we cannot accept CVs. When writing the personal statement, you should refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached below. Please give specific examples to demonstrate how you meet the criteria listed, including what knowledge or experience you have regarding:

• Managing teams, including volunteers.
• Project development, especially related to improving health outcomes.
• Partnership working.
• Safeguarding.
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity.

We want to recognize and celebrate the diversity of our local communities and be responsive to their needs. We also want to ensure that we are a fair and equitable employer, striving to achieve a diverse workforce that has the ability to understand, communicate and interact with people across cultures. We therefore encourage applications from all areas of our community.

Library work is physically demanding; please see the Job Hazards attached below for more details.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact the Library Development Manager, Luke Oakes, on [email protected].

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.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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