Purpose and Values
The Education & Childrens Services Directorate is committed to Improving Life Chances for All through a wide range of direct services which support our children, young people, families and the wider Fife community. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect and Equity which reflect the ethos, culture and practice principles of all staff across the directorate. We strive to ensure that our attitudes and behaviour reflect these core values in all our dealings with children, young people, their families, and the wider community in partnership with those who support them.
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.
Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked upload resumé. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV.
Please consider and demonstrate the following when completing your Supporting Statement:
* WORK EFFECTIVELY AS PART OF A TEAM
Consider how you have built positive relationships built on trust and respect as a team member; how you have communicated with others; how you have used your initiative and organisational skills to meet targets and achieve goals.
* HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENTIALITY
Consider how you have shared information in compliance with current legislation; what steps did you take to ensure procedures were followed, guaranteeing attention to detail.
* GOOD COMMUNICATION AND EFFECTIVE INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
Consider how you have used your knowledge and skills to provide professional documents, information, data and reports; how you have worked towards achieving improvements; how you have demonstrated excellent customer service; how you have managed your time effectively to meet deadlines.
* KNOWLEDGE, PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING OF OFFICE PROCESS AND SYSTEMS
Consider how you have used your knowledge of financial and IT systems to provide a quality service; what systems and processes have you used to produce information; how have you used your initiative to support process improvements.
Job Details
We are looking for a highly skilled and committed Clerical Officer to provide a comprehensive and confidential administrative support service within a secondary high school, utilising the Management Information Systems and other Education specific IT systems, ensuring accurate IT data capture to meet the requirements of school, corporate and government agencies.
As a Clerical Officer, you will work under the direction and supervision of the Admin Coordinator or Business Manager.
Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
Qualifications
* Educated to SCQF level 5, which includes National 5 or SVQ level 2 or Standard Grades at Credit level or equivalent in a relevant discipline
* You are required to have good levels of interpersonal skills and abilities which will enable you to work as a member of a team to ensure positive outcomes for all children and young people.
* Experience of working with minimum supervision in an environment of change and challenge, or within a school.
Further Information
* Role Profile
* when preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria
Role Profile
* How We Work Matters
* Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our behaviour framework for more information.
Benefits
* Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Contract
Job function
* Administrative
Industries
* Administrative and Support Services
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