Making Scotland the best place in the world to learn, educate, research and innovate.
Opening up opportunities for over half a million learners a year in Scotland's 25 colleges and 19 universities.

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Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is dedicated to making Scotland the best place in the world to learn, educate, research, and innovate. They invest around £2 billion every year to enable colleges and universities to provide life-changing opportunities to over half a million individuals. The SFC focuses on funding, supporting, and challenging educational institutions to deliver quality tertiary education and research that contributes to students, communities, and the economy, as well as addressing global challenges like climate change.

Making Scotland the best place in the world to learn, educate, research and innovate. Opening up opportunities for over half a million learners a year in Scotland's 25 colleges and 19 universities.

• Reporting to the Deputy Director, lead the design, implementation and ongoing delivery of a modern HR business partnering and advisory model aligned to SFC’s corporate strategy, values and objectives.
• Lead the business partnering team to provide a service of trusted support to Directors, senior leaders and managers.
• Lead the business partnering team to provide professional advice as required on employee relations matters.
• Partner with Directors and their leadership teams to drive and support systemic organisational change initiatives.
• Build effective working relationships across the organisation.
• Role-model an adaptable approach to prioritisation to enable delivery, support individuals and teams to find solutions.

Temporary Head of HR Business Partnering – Grade M1

Lead HR business partnering and advisory model at the Scottish Funding Council. Drive organizational change, collaboration, and talent management aligned to their corporate strategy.

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• Working with the Senior Governance Officer and colleagues across SFC to establish the new Apprenticeship Committee (and its sub-Committees).
• Once established, provide high quality administrative and secretariat support to the Apprenticeship Committee (and its sub-committees), including planning meeting dates in alignment with other Committees and the Board, preparation and distribution of agendas and papers, effective minute-taking, booking of venues and catering.
• Monitor the drafting and formatting of Committee papers and ensure their timely dispatch to members.
• Maintain systems to support good governance and accountability, including the register of interests, gifts and hospitality, expenses, terms of office and freedom of information requests relating to relevant papers.
• Assist with the induction of new Committee members.
• Provision of detailed briefings for Committee Chairs and senior colleagues as appropriate.
• Development and maintenance of relevant corporate governance procedural documents in relation to the Committee.
• Provide support to the Deputy Director, Governance & Planning (Secretary to the Board) on relevant matters.

Temporary Corporate Governance Officer – Grade E2

Corporate Governance Officer delivering secretariat support to the Apprenticeship Committee at SFC. Collaborating with senior governance staff to ensure compliance and effective governance processes.

recruitment

• Provide support to selection panels including advertising roles, setting up scorecards, invitations to interview, handling candidate queries and any other necessary assistance.
• Co-ordinate the onboarding process and administration for all new starters ensuring a positive candidate journey.
• Proactively manage the flow of information in and out of the recruitment and Applicant Tracking System (ATS) mailboxes, liaising with team members to ensure all incoming mail is acknowledged and dealt with within an agreed timeframe.
• Provide support to stakeholders across SFC to enable them to make best use of the ATS.
• Ensuring the team’s records and files are organised appropriately and in line with SFC’s internal policies for information management and GDPR requirements.
• Organise internal and external recruitment meetings and take minutes as required.
• Provide any other support to the smooth running of the team or the organisation that may reasonably be required.

Temporary Recruitment Administrator – Grade E1

Support recruitment administration and onboarding within SFC's Human Resources team. Assist candidates and stakeholders in the recruitment process.

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• This fixed term role provides maternity cover within the Finance Directorate.
• Working closely with the Deputy Director of Finance and the wider Finance Leadership Team.
• Support project activity required to maintain effective financial operations.
• Ensure continuity of critical functions, including project coordination, data assurance, stakeholder engagement.
• Contribute flexibly across the directorate, helping sustain collaborative finance services throughout the maternity leave period.

Finance Policy Officer, Grade E2 – Maternity Cover

Finance Policy Officer providing maternity cover within the Finance Directorate at SFC. Supporting financial operations and project coordination during a transition period.

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• Deliver high quality, bespoke briefings for senior colleagues, including briefings for parliamentary committees.
• Provide well-evidenced advice across all areas of stakeholder engagement, with a particular focus on government and parliamentary relations.
• Lead the government and parliamentary relations function, ensuring that government and parliamentary key engagements are reflected in the organisation’s operational plans.
• Oversee an effective and responsive parliamentary monitoring process (e.g. tracking Parliamentary Questions, committees, debates etc.) to identify where interest lies in SFC-related issues and ensure appropriate follow-up.
• Ensure SFC makes appropriate input into parliamentary inquiries and co-ordinate written and oral evidence ensuring that those giving evidence are appropriately briefed.
• Take a leading role, with support from External Affairs and Policy colleagues, in the development and delivery of SFC advice and messages for government and parliamentary audiences.
• Deputise for the Head of External Affairs (Deputy Director) as required.

Assistant Director, Public Affairs – Maternity Cover

Lead SFC’s Public Affairs function providing strategic government relations and enhancing SFC’s reputation. Advise senior colleagues and oversee organizational engagement with government and parliament.

data-engineer

• Provide technical guidance and advice to help in the design and development of data solutions for data modelling and warehousing, data integration, and analytics.
• Implement and optimise data pipelines to connect operational systems and data for analytics, data science and business processes.
• Design and develop scalable data ingestion frameworks to transform a wide variety of datasets.
• Research, analyse and help implement technical approaches for solving complex development and integration problems, supporting the build out of a strategy and roadmap.
• Working with other areas of SFC and our partners, identify and build data products that will aid with robust data integrations, analysis, goal setting and tracking with insights.
• Support the development of product roadmaps.
• Provide appropriate advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders.


Data Engineer – Grade E2

Data Engineer at Scottish Funding Council managing data solutions and driving innovation for post-16 education in Scotland. Collaborating with teams to enhance learning outcomes and decision-making through data-driven insights.

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