Participation and Engagement Officer - Waverley Court

Job Description

Corporate Services

Participation and Engagement Officer - Fixed term until 31/7/2025
Waverley Court

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717
Hours: 36 per week

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Strategic Change and Delivery team working to support delivery of high priority programme. A programme that supports the implementation of the Council’s Business Plan and Medium Term Financial Plan.

We are looking for an Engagement and Participation Officer with a passion for change and the ability to enable colleagues and our key stakeholders to engage and participate in the transformation of our social work services that support children and young people. You will have experience of working in an engagement role in either a business / project support environment and will want to be part of change and transformation in the public sector, improving services for the people of Edinburgh.

You will be outcome focused and will maintain excellent relationships with stakeholders as well as being able to prioritise workload in a fast paced environment We are looking for candidates with experience of:

• Microsoft office ie being comfortable using teams, excel, powerpoint and word
• building and managing relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• planning and organisation workload and be able to get the job done
• communicating well at all levels in writing and in person and being able to analyse and distil information
• Designing and delivering engagement and participation activities, tools and strategies

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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