Job Description

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 01 June 2026

Closing Date: Wednesday 27 May 2026

Contract Type: Temporary until 31 March 2027

Salary: FC6 £31,761.26 - £34,914.86 Pro Rata

Working Pattern: 36 hours per week

Location: Skills Development Conference Centre, Kirkcaldy

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. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Note of Interest which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. Your Note of Interest must cover the following topics:

Compliance: Please outline the experience you have in relation to ensuring compliance for reporting on employability programmes (Response Max 150 words).

Benefits: What benefits do you think a compliance officer brings to a team? (Response max 150 words).

Support: Please identify how you would assist the Project Manager(s) to control and monitor project budgets and costs to agreed tolerances. (Response 150 words).

Teamwork: Provide examples of how you develop and maintain relationships to strengthen partnership, team and project working within the project team (Response 150 words).

Without a Note of Interest your, application will not be progressed. Please upload your Note of Interest at the section marked “upload resume”. Your Note of Interest must not be a CV.

To provide project support to ‘Employability Services’ partnership with specific emphasis on performance management for a range of innovative of employability projects which support our priority clients into sustainable employment with support from Scottish Government and Area Committee funding.

Apply specialist knowledge and competence with the organisation’s chosen software support tool (currently FORT CRMS), and other project management software support tools such as those for Risk Assessment and Management.

Assist the project manager(s) to control and monitor project budgets and costs to agreed tolerances.

Assist with the compiling of performance reports for Scottish Government, Fife Partnership, Opportunities Fife Partnership and local projects.

Directly support the production and presentation of reports, guidance and other documentation relating to Fife Employability Pathway programme.

The Person

Essential skills, knowledge, Qualifications or Experience required:

Qualified to SCQF Level 7 which includes HNC or Advanced Highers or equivalent.

Project management skills.

Experience of using management information systems such as FORT.

Experience within a similar role.

Further Information

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For Further Information Please Contact: Ann.Salt@fife.gov.uk