Relief Ceremony Officer
| Posting date: | 16 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £28,598 to £31,022 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 March 2026 |
| Location: | Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AP |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Ref/9188/8045 |
Summary
Are you:
Customer focused
Passionate about working with people
Committed to effective team working
Willing to go above and beyond to meet customer expectations
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
We are looking to appoint several relief (zero hours) Ceremony Officers, working from our Cambridge, March, Ely and Huntingdon bases, to register and conduct marriages and civil partnerships. This will include statutory and non-statutory ceremonies at Registration Offices, religious buildings, and approved premises across Cambridgeshire. As well as carrying out all related duties and responsibilities in compliance with the Registration Acts.
The posts are all initially fixed term contracts until the 31st October 2026, INCLUDING school holidays. For exceptional candidates there will then be the potential for the post to be made permanent.
Our team motto is :-
We conduct a ceremony that reflects the couples’ vision whilst fulfilling any legal requirements and upholding the Service standards.
If you think you can meet this brief, then we would love to hear from you.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Ceremony Team Leaders 01223 706335
Our benefitsWe 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
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
What will you be doing?Working with customers at life changing and emotional times requires a sensitive approach, enhanced organisational skills and excellent communication and presentation skills to small and large groups.
These are team roles that require confidence, presentation skills, clear legible handwriting, IT skills and the highest attention to detail.
Previous experience is desirable; however, full training and support will be given.
The posts are all initially fixed term contracts until the 31st October 2026, INCLUDING school holidays. For exceptional candidates there will then be the potential for the post to be made permanent.
About youYou will:
Have the ability to use your own initiative (within set legal parameters)
Have the ability to work accurately under pressure
Possess excellent communication and digital skills
Be able to work with and appreciate the diverse and inclusive nature of the role
Be able to deliver a customer focused service
Have the ability to travel to and from over 80 various venues across Cambridgeshire
Salary scale is currently £14.82 per hour with enhanced rates for Saturdays (x 1.5), Sunday (x 1.78) and Bank Holidays (x 2).
These posts do not provide a regular monthly income, payment is claimed for the hours worked and income will vary from month to month and likely decrease during the winter when we have fewer ceremonies.
As a Ceremony Officer you would ideally be available to work some weekdays, 2 or 3 Saturdays per month, along with occasional Sundays and Bank Holidays. The work pattern is variable with a high demand for ceremonies in the summer months, particularly weekends.
The posts are all initially fixed term contracts until the 31st October 2026, INCLUDING school holidays. For exceptional candidates there will then be the potential for the post to be made permanent.
Shortlisting will take place 2nd March 2026 and interviews will take place on Friday 6th March in Cambridge, please allow 2-3 hours
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Claire Norman 01223 714663 or Kirsty Webb 07391 730800
About usCambridgeshire 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.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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