About the job

Job summary

Transport Scotland is the national transport agency for Scotland and is accountable to Parliament and the public through Scottish Ministers, with a budget of around £3.5 billion per year. Transport is a vital feature of the Scottish Government's focus on increasing sustainable economic growth, and transport investments and policies have major impacts on the economy, people, and the environment.

Job description

• Collate information and draft responses to First Minister’s Questions, Parliamentary Questions, FOI/EIR, correspondence, emails and press lines relating to environment and sustainability issues.• Providing high quality and timely advice, through briefing and submissions to Ministers and senior managers on the environment and sustainability work the unit undertakes. Oversee the collation of all briefing material within the team. Seek and provide relevant contributions from other teams/directorates within TS/SG, and liaise with Private Office as required.• Monitor and issue responses to queries received via the Low Emission Zones and Blue Badge enquiries inboxes.• Maintain project management and correspondence records and track actions across the Environment & Sustainability team – includes seeking weekly updates from team members and updating as necessary. • Support B3’s/team head with various work streams as required. Tasks vary from proof reading, minute taking, attendance at stakeholder meetings, assisting with creation of documents including PowerPoint, consultation development, supporting the delivery of LEZs in Scotland.• Support the production and delivery of the communications plan around air quality and low emission zones.• Support the updating and maintenance of the Scottish LEZ website working with our website provider• Lead responsibility for designing and maintaining the environment and sustainability (operational and project) elements of the Transport Scotland website. This will require coordination with our Communications team.   

 

Competencies
Communications and Engagement
Analysis and Use of Evidence

Self-Awareness

Improving Performance

Person specification

Educated to degree level in English, Communications or Environmental Studies would be preferred.

Essential Criteria
1. Track record of producing timely and concise, high quality written policy documents, reports and/or guidance.2. Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to convey complex information to different audiences 

3. Strong organisational and problem solving skills with the ability to prioritise your own workload and competing demands to ensure deadlines are met.

4. Strong interpersonal skills – able to develop and manage effective working relationships internally and externally, and experience of working with others to deliver a shared outcome.

Minimum Time in Post 

You will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of three years unless successful at gaining promotion to a higher Band or Grade.  In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.  

Location
This post is based in  Glasgow, with hybrid working in line with current Transport Scotland policies. You will be expected to be office based twice per week, pro rata.

The post is a full time role, but staff with different working patterns are invited to apply, and we will assess proposed working patterns against the business requirements for this post.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,867, Scottish Government contributes £9,684 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Additional InformationTo apply please fully complete the application and submit evidence based examples to demonstrate your knowledge/skills (300 words). Remember, your answers should be clear, concise and reflect what actions you undertook. You may want to use the STAR(R) approach to respond to each criterion. 

Important Information regarding InterviewsInterviews  may be conducted in a virtual/remote setting. All applicants must ensure that they have a suitable space to complete the virtual interview via MS Teams and ensure that Wi-Fi/Broadband capacity will be sufficient to carry both audio and video feeds to undertake the interview.

For information on this post please contact Hiring Manager, Vincent McInally by email at vincent.mcinally@transport.gov.scot 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 scottishgovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot

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Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.