Employability & Skills Advisor (Temporary) - (Readvertisement)

Job Description

Jobs & Business Glasgow are Glasgow’s biggest provider of employment and training, and our principal objective is to reduce the gap between Glasgow’s and Scotland’s employment rate by increasing the percentage of Glasgow’s jobs going to Glasgow’s residents.

We are currently looking an Employability & Skills Advisor to join our team, on a fixed-term basis up to 31 March 2026.

 

Position Details

Our Employability & Skills Advisors provide sustained and meaningful support to customers across the city from the initial point of contact to them entering employment. You’ll guide and empower them with skills development, training opportunities, and the perfect job search strategy to help support unemployed customers into work and tackle in-work poverty for those in low-skilled and low wage jobs.

Further details regarding what this role entails are noted within the Job Description for the post, whilst the Person Specification section confirms the key competencies you are required to demonstrate in your application (we recommend using the STAR technique – situation, task, action, result – in application and interview to demonstrate the key competencies).

The annual salary for the post starts at £30,239.35 per annum, progressing to £34,328.37 on an incremental scale. This is based on a 35-hour working week, working Monday – Thursday, 9am – 5pm; and Friday, 9am – 4pm. Though we welcome discussions on flexible working as part of the recruitment process, and you will have the opportunity to opt into a local agreement to extend working hours across Monday – Thursday to facilitate a 1pm finish on a Friday.

Jobs & Business Glasgow employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package. If successful in your application, you’ll have access to these benefits which include:

• 26 days (182 hours) paid annual leave, rising to 29 days (203) hours after 5 years’ service.
• 5 days (87.5 hours) paid public holidays each year.
• Workplace pension scheme, with employee contributions matched to 6%.

Partial hybrid working is available in this role. If you’re shortlisted for the post, we look forward to telling you more about our approach to ensuring needs of the business are met along with flexibility to maintain your work-life balance.

Please note this is a re advertisement and previous applicants should not re-apply.

Application Packs

Alternative Application Packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille, Audio and other languages. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 0141 287 1054. Packs will be posted out to you within 3 working days of receiving your telephone request. Please note the closing date of the job advert to ensure that you give yourself plenty of time to complete your application form and return it to us.

Further Information

 

For further information about working for us please refer to our website GCC HR Policies