Scottish Development International

Accountant

• provision of high quality monthly financial reports
• provide financial advice and assistance to stakeholders
• contribute to corporate financial exercises and quality assurance
• assist in maintaining overall financial control
• ensuring adequate financial controls and clear audit trails

Management Accountant

Director

• Develop and embed the role of the strategic centre of the Scottish Government
• Lead a diverse team of Directors and oversee a workforce of approximately 600 staff and a budget of around £500 million
• Provide leadership on Strategy, Performance, Operational Delivery and Public Service Reform and Transformation
• Provide advice to the First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance on key fiscal events
• Shape the future Scottish Government’s strategic priorities and provide evidence-based advice to Ministers
• Act as a Champion of the diversity and inclusion agenda

Director General – Exchequer, Strategy and Performance

Civil Engineer

• Supporting a team of existing chartered technical professionals engaged on delivering Transport Scotland’s business plan on behalf of Scottish Government.
• The work will be varied and challenging and will require an understanding of engineering principles and an awareness of current political issues.
• Work with the minimum of supervision and have an appreciation of personal strengths and development needs.
• Placed in one of Transport Scotland’s Directorates that best fits particular skills and career expectations.

Civil Engineering Summer Placement

• Support operational colleagues with a variety of administrative tasks.
• Collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders to make decisions on a variety of tasks, including issuing penalties, debt recovery, and processing repayments.
• Answering telephone queries from taxpayers, providing guidance to fulfill their tax obligations.

Tax Operations Administrator – Modern Apprenticeship

Actuary

• Develop and maintain advanced spreadsheet-based pension calculators, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and auditability.
• Apply knowledge of UK/Scottish pensions legislation and Remedy regulations to ensure calculators are correct and compliant.
• Document calculation methodologies and tool structures to support knowledge transfer and long-term sustainability.
• Work collaboratively with actuaries, policy colleagues, administrators, and external advisers (e.g., GAD).
• Support validation, testing, and assurance of calculations to minimise error and reduce audit/legal risks.
• Provide technical advice and guidance to colleagues, acting as an internal expert resource.
• Contribute to programme MI and reporting through accurate calculation outputs and analysis.
• Ensure calculators are adaptable to future scheme or legislative changes.

Pensions Modelling Actuary

Security Analyst

• Apply your technical expertise to implement and maintain security controls.
• Support operational procedures and respond effectively to security incidents.
• Manage risks and perform vulnerability assessments.
• Ensure compliance and investigate security breaches.
• Carry out forensic analysis when needed and recommend actions to strengthen security posture.

Cyber Security Analyst

DevOps Engineer

• Support the delivery of secure digital services by understanding information security principles
• Assist with the investigation and resolution of service faults
• Work openly and collaboratively with colleagues across teams

Associate DevOps Engineer

Compliance

• Dealing with telephone, written and face to face enquiries from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicate with applicants regarding progress of their applications.
• Using various IT systems, making assessments of information submitted on applications, including data capture of information submitted and maintaining spreadsheet information.
• Create cases on Crofting Information System following receipt of regulatory applications, notifications & registrations.
• Process regulatory and croft registration applications, assessing validity and escalating casework to senior colleagues.
• Proactive diary and inbox management including regulatory enquiries, prioritising tasks and coordinating activities.
• Ensure that the Register of Crofts and any other Commission records are accurately updated.
• Attend, engage and complete the Regulatory Training Programme, associated internal training and comply with Scottish Government mandatory training.

Regulatory Caseworker

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Provide challenge of financial forecasts to budget holders through delivery of financial reports and analysis on a regular basis
• Lead, support and line manage finance colleagues to ensure delivery of team priorities
• Develop and continually improve financial capabilities across the organisation
• Contribute to the Annual Report and Accounts process and liaise with external audit
• Completion of key financial reconciliations to support the Annual Accounts process
• Provide support and guidance to Oracle Finance and Purchase to Pay system users

Finance Manager

• Shape and lead a bold Transformation Agenda across Forestry and Land Scotland
• Drive excellence and innovation across Finance, People, Communications and Corporate Governance and Relations
• Provide strategic leadership to the corporate services team and Heads of Profession in Finance, People, Communications and Corporate functions
• Deliver business excellence in Finance, People, Communications and Governance services to FLS
• Oversee and streamline governance across FLS to enable agile decision making

Director of Corporate Services and Transformation – Forestry

Risk

• Ensuring PIRC delivers its functions in accordance with Scottish Ministers’ policies and priorities.
• Providing strategic direction and providing constructive advice where necessary on governance processes deployed by PIRC.
• Ensuring financial stewardship by providing robust scrutiny, challenge, and advice where necessary as well as supporting the PIRC Accountable Officer for audit purposes.
• Together with the Chair provide oversight and challenge of the PIRC Key Performance Indicators and Strategic Objectives.

Board Member – Governance and Risk Advisory

Designer

• Responsible for service management across platforms, multiple channels and services
• Lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements
• Be responsible for overall governance of the management of IT Service Design
• Promote, implement and manage ITIL best practices
• Use data analytics skills to enhance business performance
• Build long-term strategic relationships

Senior IT Service Manager – IT Service Design

• Lead on the early operational design of Scotland’s Census 2031
• Develop the high-level design for the operational aspects of Scotland’s census in collaboration with Office of National Statistics (ONS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)
• Determine the requirements for the building blocks needed to stand up operational capabilities
• Recruit the operational team to support design work
• Work alongside statistical and IT design teams to develop the design and delivery plans
• Produce high level operational requirements to ensure NRS is an intelligent partner and in the best position to collaborate with ONS and NISRA on key contracts
• Responsibility for field operations during the 2027 Census Test, 2029 Census Rehearsal and 2031 Census itself

Head of Census Operational Design

Learning and Development

• As chairperson, you will be responsible for developing productive strategic, and responsive, relationships with Scottish Ministers, members, and stakeholders.
• Ensuring that CLD Standards Council delivers, to a high standard, its portfolio of activities.
• Promoting positive organisational behaviours which reflect the changing world of work (fair work, diversity, equality) across CLD partners and within the CLD Standards Council.
• Promoting the highest standards of governance, propriety and conduct in CLD Standards Council business.
• Maintaining a strong collective sense of delivery, accountability and challenge in the investment of public funds.
• Leading the CLD Standards Council in making decisions, developing its capacity to do so.
• Directing corporate vision, purposing strategic outcomes and goals, and communicating these in representing CLD Standards Council to Scottish Government and stakeholders more widely.

Chair, Community Learning and Development Standards Council Scotland

Legal Assistant

• Conducting legal research to support the delivery of high-quality legal services
• Maintaining and enhancing KM resources through regular reviews
• Supporting solicitors in staying up to date with legal developments
• Contributing to the KM Group within SGLD
• Maintaining appropriate contact with the other PSLAs and solicitors