Policy Officer

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Job Details

We are seeking to recruit a Policy Officer to support strategic planning, self-evaluation and improvement for the Education Directorate within Fife Council and the wider Fife Children’s Services Partnership. The postholder will support and facilitate an ongoing programme of work to strengthen core processes, helping leaders to develop and evaluate their key strategies and improvement actions.

Your role as Policy Officer for Fife Children’s Services / Education Directorate will include:

Developing, delivering and facilitating a programme of quality planning and improvement activity, to provide support and challenge for strategy and policy across the Children’s Services Partnership and Education Directorate.

Managing and communicating information relating to strategy and policy effectively so that Directorate leaders and key stakeholders are kept up to date with developments and emerging issues.

Collecting, analysing and interpreting research, performance, management, risk and other information.

Identifying and managing a range of projects and activities relating to strategy and policy within areas of Children’s Services and Education delivery in line with agreed standards and deadlines.

The post will be line managed by the QIO (Strategic Planning & Performance) within the Education Directorate, Fife Council.

Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements

• Educated to SCQF level 9 which includes a Degree or equivalent
• Relevant experience of policy or of organisational improvement/change management
• Significant experience of working in a policy or organisational improvement/change management capacity to support the improvement of service delivery
• Experience of structured approaches to improvement such as process mapping, service planning and performance reporting, strategy/policy development and evaluation
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Ability to balance effective work programming, meeting deadlines and monitoring with flexibility in reacting to urgent work and changing priorities
• Time management skills
• Prioritisation skills
• Ability to operate effectively while under pressure and cope with uncertainty

For further information, please contact: Stuart Booker at Stuart.Booker@fife.gov.uk