The Scottish Government Hiring for HR Support Officer Job at Edinburgh, Scotland Full Time

The Scottish Government’s (SG) ambition is to be a world-leading, diverse employer where people can be themselves at work. We are committed to ensuring our workplaces are environments where everyone feels respected and supported, and where there is inclusion and equal opportunity.

The key purpose of the HR People Advice and Wellbeing Team is to empower and build capability in our leaders, managers and staff to enable them to create the culture where that ambition can be embraced and delivered. The team provides dedicated HR support and advice to colleagues across the organisation to ensure fair and consistent treatment, with a focus on wellbeing and on the resolution of issues as the earliest possible opportunity.

The team focuses on ensuring that the SG employee experience is a positive one which takes into account individual circumstances, the Fair Work principles and the ambitions of the SG. There are circa 30 staff in the HR People Advice and Wellbeing team supporting a diverse range of business areas across various locations throughout Scotland.

Qualifications Required
To apply for this post you must have a CIPD qualification or willingness to work towards.

Other qualifications equivalent to these may also be acceptable, if you are in any doubt please contact to discuss.

Please note: If you fail to demonstrate how you meet the minimum qualifications as stated above, your application will be automatically sifted out.

Essential Criteria
1. Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with an ability to build trust and strong working relationships with individuals and groups at all levels across the organisation.
2. Evidence of analysing information, outlining options and making recommendations based on evidence, legislative requirements, policy requirements and best practice.
3. Evidence of excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise and work under pressure to meet deadlines and to respond quickly to new demands or competing tasks.

4. Evidence of improving business processes, embracing and promoting change in collaboration with others.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further Information
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification and Further Information for Job Applicants” which you will find below. To apply, you must fully complete and submit an online application via this website before the closing date. To learn more about this opportunity, please contact Glen Morton at [email protected].

Important Information Regarding Interviews
In recognition of the Scottish Government’s ongoing measures and guidance in its response to Covid-19 (Coronavirus), we would like to advise applicants that a decision has been taken that all interviews must be conducted in a virtual/remote setting.

In order to facilitate this new way of working, we are asking all applicants to ensure that they have a suitable space to complete the virtual interview. In addition, a personal device of choice, which has the interview application downloaded. This could be MS Teams or Webex for example. This will allow candidates to undertake the interview/assessment if selected. We are also asking you to ensure that your personal Wi-Fi/Broadband capacity will be sufficient to carry both audio and video feeds.

The Scottish Government is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected]