About the job

Job summary

Would you like to work for an organisation that wants to improve Scottish education?

Education Scotland is the national improvement agency for Scottish education and an executive agency of the Scottish Government.
Our role is to promote improvement through inspection and review, innovation and change, from the early years to adult learning and to provide support and challenge to the education system. We are committed to embedding our values of excellence, creativity, integrity and respect in everything we do. This role will provide leadership and management in the creation of briefings and reports based on inspection evidence and will lead approaches to sharing and dissemination of inspection findings across the education system.

 
The post-holder will lead on the development of a range of creative approaches to support continuous improvement through communicating key messages from scrutiny activities and exemplifying effective practice identified through inspection.

 

You will work closely with the Heads of Strategy, leading the development and publication of briefs, reports and publications based on inspection evidence, coordinating across both the communications and content management teams. The role holder will manage a small team to support this area of work.

Benefits

• Flexible working and currently within a hybrid model, providing excellent work-life balance

• Competitive salary ranges

• Minimum 5 weeks annual leave (pro rata) which increases with service in addition to 11.5 public and privilege holidays

• Learning and development opportunities as well as career progression

• Civil Service pension

• Workplace adjustments as required to enable individuals to work safely and comfortably within their role

• Range of health and wellbeing support available to all staff

Job description

• Lead the development and publication of briefs, reports and publications based on inspection evidence, coordinating across both the communications and content management teams.

• Lead, manage and implement a range of creative approaches to promote inspection evidence and highly effective practice using multiple communication channels.

• Lead and coordinate the drafting of briefings and other correspondence for high level meetings.

• Ensure provision is in place to provide senior leaders with specialist advice based on inspection evidence.

• Develop, lead and implement a strategy for identifying and sharing effective practice identified through scrutiny activities, which involves using research, inspection findings and collaboration with stakeholders.

• Contribute to advice and guidance which is evidence-based to produce information and reports which are high quality and inform current and future education provision and practice.

• Manage the quality assurance of all work within the specified area, monitoring and reporting on work undertaken to ensure agreed standards of delivery and outcomes are achieved.

• Perform a leadership and line management role in relation to direct reports, providing guidance and direction as necessary and promoting the culture and values of the organisation.

• Engage in any activity concurrent with the role that you are competent to perform and that adds value to the organisation’s goals.

Person specification

Qualifications

Candidates must be educated to a degree level and/or have equivalent experience working at a local and/or national level. If you do not demonstrate that you meet the above qualification criteria, your application will be sifted out at the application stage.

 
Essential Criteria
1. Highly effective communicator with significant experience of developing clear, creative and detailed reports presenting complex information clearly and in different formats.

2. Strong analytical skills, the ability to draw on a range of evidence to make links to intended outcomes.

3. Highly effective organisational skills with the skills to balance competing priorities while being responsive to new demands.

4. Experience of leading a strategic high-profile project in a collaborative way and taking creative approaches to delivering solutions.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £73,757, Scottish Government contributes £19,914 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

Sift and Interview dates TBC. Please apply using the link provided

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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.