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About the role
We’re looking for a detail‑focused and proactive Highway Records Officer to join our Highway Records & Definitive Map Team. You’ll play a key role in maintaining and improving the Council’s statutory highway records, ensuring that information about the extent of publicly maintained highway is accurate, reliable and legally robust.
Your work will include responding to CON29 search requests, investigating highway boundaries, maintaining adoption records, and supporting the delivery of new highway schemes. You’ll analyse historic and legal documents, carry out site visits, and use GIS and digital mapping systems to keep our records up to date.
This is a varied and rewarding role that blends technical investigation, customer service, mapping, and partnership working. You’ll help ensure that the Council meets its statutory duties and provides authoritative information to residents, developers, legal professionals and internal teams.
What will you be doing?
- Responding to CON29 search requests and highway boundary enquiries
- Investigating the extent of publicly maintained highway
- Maintaining and updating highway adoption records and digital mapping systems
- Analysing historic and legal documents to determine highway status
- Providing professional advice to customers, colleagues and partners
- Supporting delivery of new highway schemes and ensuring accurate adoption records
- Managing responses to Section 116 and Section 247stopping‑upapplications
- Contributing to process improvements and service development
About you
You’ll be someone who enjoys problem‑solving, research and working with maps and legal information. You’ll have strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to interpret historic records, plans and boundary evidence.
You’ll also be confident communicating with a wide range of customers and stakeholders, including landowners, developers, parish councils and internal colleagues. You’ll be organised, able to manage your workload to meet published timeframes, and comfortable working both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
Experience in highways, transport, records management, land charges, planning, legal services or a similar technical environment is beneficial, but not essential if you can demonstrate the right skills and aptitude.
Next steps
If you’re ready to help shape the future of Cambridgeshire’s highway records and want a role that blends investigation, mapping, and customer engagement, we’d love to hear from you.
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…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can 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
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- 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