GCP Senior Project Manager in Cambridge

Our benefits include a comprehensive wellbeing package covering all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family. You can buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro‑rate) through our salary sacrifice scheme and take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances. Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings are available, along with access to development opportunities, apprenticeships, and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth. We offer paid volunteering hours each year to make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day, access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network, and opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards. An Our Cambs Rewards account gives you access to in‑store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be developing one or more exciting projects such as the Active Travel Projects or new Travel Hubs. The post holder will oversee and manage multimillion pound budgets for transport projects, which will have long lasting benefits for people who live, visit, and work in Greater Cambridge. You will work with a team of experienced project managers from varying backgrounds to deliver key infrastructure projects for the Greater Cambridge area. This is an exciting environment where you will be encouraged to work independently and develop your skills and experience.

We need someone who is firmly focused on delivery to time and budget and who is prepared to tackle the challenges that come with the unique location and context of Greater Cambridge. Navigating a complex governance environment, you will be politically astute, with the ability to build consensus and credibility with civic, academic, and business stakeholders, to deliver high levels of impact at a local, sub‑regional, and national level. Experience in construction will be very beneficial for this role. You will require an excellent understanding and experience of infrastructure delivery within a local authority or central Government context.

We offer opportunities to achieve pay increments through annual review, flexible, agile working, and a city centre workspace. Our environment champions equality, diversity, and inclusion, with wellbeing resources and support, staff benefits including a bike purchase scheme and discounted gym membership, and a comprehensive pension.

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 reflect this diversity, which we 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, inclusive, and diverse. 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 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 and fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us. We encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager 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.