Are you a good communicator with a great eye for detail and looking for an opportunity to support key Scottish Government priorities?\n\nYou will join the Customer Service Delivery team in Inverurie, who are part of the Rural and Inspections Division (RPID). RPID have around 600 staff in 17 area offices throughout Scotland providing a range of services. These teams manage the implementation of agricultural, environmental and rural policies, conduct inspections, process applications for funding and provide high quality customer service.\n\nThis is a Modern Apprentice opportunity for two Administration Officers to join the team to provide support the business in a variety of duties including the delivery of high quality customer service for our farmers and customers, processing subsidies scheme grants and providing effective business support for the office.\n\nThroughout the first 12 months the successful candidate will be expected to gain a relevant Level 2 Business Administration SVQ qualification. Support will be provided by an internal assessor who will work with you on a monthly basis, and time will be made available for you to work on your qualification.\n\nWe would encourage school/college leavers as this is an excellent opportunity to start your Civil Service career while also gaining an SVQ qualification. Dealing with telephone, written and face to face enquiries from both internal and external customers including assisting with registration and navigation of RPID's online systems.\nReception Duty dealing with visitors to the office.\nGeneral administrative duties, including filing, acknowledgement and onward processing of mail and franking outgoing post as well as maintaining spreadsheet information.\nAdministrative processing in support of the Seed Potato Classification Scheme, including the preparation of documents for the export of Potatoes and Used Farm Machinery.\nReceipting, data capture, assessment and authorisations of applications and claims under a range of agricultural and environmental schemes.\nUsing Rural Payments and Services and other IT systems, make assessments of information submitted on businesses and their applications, including data capture of information submitted.\nProviding efficient, effective and proactive support to the team. Success profile\nSuccess profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of skills, experience and behaviours candidates will be assessed on.\n \nExperience\nAn understanding of IT systems, including Microsoft Office or similar.\nBehaviours:\nCommunicating and influencing â Level 1\nWorking together â Level 1\nManaging a quality service â Level 1\nYou can find out more about Success Profiles here: Success profiles: candidate guide - gov.scot