Grazings Officer
Inverness | £32,140/year | core-scottishgovernment.icims.com |
Overview:
The Crofting Commission is a Non-Departmental Public Body of approximately 70 staff. The organisation is responsible for the regulation of crofting and maintains a register of crofts. Crofting is a traditional system of smallholdings unique to certain areas of Scotland, particularly the Highlands and Islands.
Crofting brings a range of benefits such as sustaining rural communities, supporting biodiversity, and low intensity, small scale food production. Crofting is supported by considerable legislation that gives rights to crofters and protects crofting land for the future, in which the Crofting Commission has a pivotal role.
This exciting opportunity sits within the Policy, Grazings, Development and Communications team of 10 staff. The team has a varied remit. You will focus on Common Grazings. Common Grazings are sizable areas of croft land with a shared management structure to graze livestock.
Shareholders in the Common Grazings can form a committee to run the grazings.
As the post holder you will provide advice and guidance for a wide range of situations for shareholders. This involves encouraging shareholders to form grazings committees, answering shareholder queries, processing regulatory applications and helping to run training events.
This involves correspondence via email, telephone and in some instances visiting the grazings and meeting shareholders in person. The records for the grazings can be historical and complex and an element of the role will be to assimilate and analyse this information.
Investigation into the records is done to understand and resolve any issues such as uncertainty over share positions.
Excellent communication is vital to the role. You should be able to develop and maintain good working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including internal Commission staff and external contacts such as crofters, solicitors, landlords and government departments.
The role would suit someone who works well within a team, is calm and professional in working with customers, has good attention to detail and an interest in learning and understanding complex records. You will receive full training on the role.
You will report to the Grazings Manager and also work closely with another Grazings Officer and the Grazings Administrator.
You will work from your computer and will become familiar with using the case work processing system known as CIS which is bespoke system for which you will receive the required training for. You will also regularly use Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Edge and Adobe Acrobat.
Responsibilities:
• Respond to grazings related enquiries
• Support grazings committees and shareholders in a range of situations which will involve providing advice and correspondence
• Processing grazings related regulatory applications
• Perform shareholder investigations to establish correct share positions
• Assist in creating new regulations for common grazings
• Liaise with the regulatory team on cases where grazings expertise is required
Competencies
Self Awareness
Communications and Engagement
Improving Performance
Analysis and use of evidence
Essential Criteria & Qualifications:
No qualifications are required for this role
Essential Criteria
1. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to communicate clearly with a variety of audiences.
2. Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to manage demanding workloads and competing priorities.
3. Ability to research and analyse information to make informed decisions and present information to senior staff.
4. Confident using and learning IT/online programs such as Microsoft products.
Location:
The role is based in Inverness and will be a combination of home based working inline with the Scottish Government hybrid working guidelines and working from the office in Great Glen House, Inverness. There will be a requirement for occasional travel to meet crofters within the crofting counties or for other events.
Minimum Time in Post:
You will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of three years unless successful at gaining promotion to a higher Band or Grade.
In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.
Further Information
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification” which you will find below.
Person_Specification_Band_B Updated Oct23 (V3)
How to apply: To apply for this post, you will need to provide the information requested below via the online application process.
You must fully complete and submit an online application via the website before the closing date using evidence based examples to demonstrate your knowledge/skills (300 words). Remember, your answers should be clear, concise and reflect what actions you undertook.
You may want to use the STAR(R) approach to respond to each criterion.
Additional Information: You must discuss your intention to apply with your current line manager to help ensure early release.
The post is a full-time role, but staff with different working patterns are invited to apply, and we will assess proposed working patterns against the business requirements for this post.
For information regarding this post please contact Finley Beaton at Finlay.beaton@crofting.gov.scot
Scottish Government's ambition is to be a world leading, diverse employer where people can be themselves at work. We want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via scottishgovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot
As part of any recruitment process, Scottish Government and associated public bodies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants and applicants for public appointments.
Personal information you provide in the recruitment process will be made available to Scottish Government and our additional data processors.
The Crofting Commission is a Non-Departmental Public Body of approximately 70 staff. The organisation is responsible for the regulation of crofting and maintains a register of crofts. Crofting is a traditional system of smallholdings unique to certain areas of Scotland, particularly the Highlands and Islands.
Crofting brings a range of benefits such as sustaining rural communities, supporting biodiversity, and low intensity, small scale food production. Crofting is supported by considerable legislation that gives rights to crofters and protects crofting land for the future, in which the Crofting Commission has a pivotal role.
This exciting opportunity sits within the Policy, Grazings, Development and Communications team of 10 staff. The team has a varied remit. You will focus on Common Grazings. Common Grazings are sizable areas of croft land with a shared management structure to graze livestock.
Shareholders in the Common Grazings can form a committee to run the grazings.
As the post holder you will provide advice and guidance for a wide range of situations for shareholders. This involves encouraging shareholders to form grazings committees, answering shareholder queries, processing regulatory applications and helping to run training events.
This involves correspondence via email, telephone and in some instances visiting the grazings and meeting shareholders in person. The records for the grazings can be historical and complex and an element of the role will be to assimilate and analyse this information.
Investigation into the records is done to understand and resolve any issues such as uncertainty over share positions.
Excellent communication is vital to the role. You should be able to develop and maintain good working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including internal Commission staff and external contacts such as crofters, solicitors, landlords and government departments.
The role would suit someone who works well within a team, is calm and professional in working with customers, has good attention to detail and an interest in learning and understanding complex records. You will receive full training on the role.
You will report to the Grazings Manager and also work closely with another Grazings Officer and the Grazings Administrator.
You will work from your computer and will become familiar with using the case work processing system known as CIS which is bespoke system for which you will receive the required training for. You will also regularly use Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Edge and Adobe Acrobat.
Responsibilities:
• Respond to grazings related enquiries
• Support grazings committees and shareholders in a range of situations which will involve providing advice and correspondence
• Processing grazings related regulatory applications
• Perform shareholder investigations to establish correct share positions
• Assist in creating new regulations for common grazings
• Liaise with the regulatory team on cases where grazings expertise is required
Competencies
Self Awareness
Communications and Engagement
Improving Performance
Analysis and use of evidence
Essential Criteria & Qualifications:
No qualifications are required for this role
Essential Criteria
1. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to communicate clearly with a variety of audiences.
2. Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to manage demanding workloads and competing priorities.
3. Ability to research and analyse information to make informed decisions and present information to senior staff.
4. Confident using and learning IT/online programs such as Microsoft products.
Location:
The role is based in Inverness and will be a combination of home based working inline with the Scottish Government hybrid working guidelines and working from the office in Great Glen House, Inverness. There will be a requirement for occasional travel to meet crofters within the crofting counties or for other events.
Minimum Time in Post:
You will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of three years unless successful at gaining promotion to a higher Band or Grade.
In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.
Further Information
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification” which you will find below.
Person_Specification_Band_B Updated Oct23 (V3)
How to apply: To apply for this post, you will need to provide the information requested below via the online application process.
You must fully complete and submit an online application via the website before the closing date using evidence based examples to demonstrate your knowledge/skills (300 words). Remember, your answers should be clear, concise and reflect what actions you undertook.
You may want to use the STAR(R) approach to respond to each criterion.
Additional Information: You must discuss your intention to apply with your current line manager to help ensure early release.
The post is a full-time role, but staff with different working patterns are invited to apply, and we will assess proposed working patterns against the business requirements for this post.
For information regarding this post please contact Finley Beaton at Finlay.beaton@crofting.gov.scot
Scottish Government's ambition is to be a world leading, diverse employer where people can be themselves at work. We want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via scottishgovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot
As part of any recruitment process, Scottish Government and associated public bodies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants and applicants for public appointments.
Personal information you provide in the recruitment process will be made available to Scottish Government and our additional data processors.
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