Job Description
Parental Employability Support - Business Growth and Inclusion Contracts and Programme Officer
Fixed term until 31 March 2026
Waverley Court
Salary: £37,626 - £44,257
Hours: 36 per week
The post holder will work as part of a team of Parental Employability Support Key Workers and child poverty delivery partners. This post will primarily focus on providing key worker support to parents in poverty, with barriers to employment, ensuring they receive the right support to progress into employment. The post holder will also be required to build relationships with other services in Edinburgh funded through Parental Employability Support and Tackling Child Poverty funding from the Scottish Government.
You will be part of the Business Growth and Inclusion team responsible for managing employability delivery across the city. Awarding over £4m worth of contracts to third sector organisations, the projects range from supporting those at risk of leaving school and not securing a positive destination, to providing employability support to those with additional barriers such as a disability or long-term health problem, through to longer-term support of those who have suffered from homelessness, involvement with criminal justice, or are in recovery from substance misuse.
Reporting to the Business Growth and Inclusion Contract and Programme Manager, it will be your responsibility to plan, organise, and co-ordinate resources to carry out service activities to the required standard. You will need to evidence experience of providing key worker support, building relationships with organisations, and have successfully delivered and supported projects in the past, demonstrating effective partnership working as well as innovative and inclusive skills.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity, and Flexibility into your ways of working.
Requirements
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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