Kent CC

New entrants into local government are essential to ensuring the sustainability of the workforce into the future. This award seeks to celebrate the massive contribution that graduates can make, even at the very start of their careers. The new award is open to an exceptional individual who joined local government during the two years prior to March 2024. They could be on the National Graduate Development Programme, another graduate programme or have been employed directly by the council. Entrants should be able to demonstrate they have had a significant impact on their team or the wider organisation, by bringing fresh thinking and new ideas that have led to improvements in service delivery for residents, businesses or colleagues. The individual needs to still be working in local government at the time of the announcement of the Awards shortlist and have no plans or expectation to not be working in local government at the time of the Awards ceremony. We welcome entries from candidates themselves or nominations from those who wish to highlight an individual they believe merits this recognition.