The Scottish Information Commissioner enforces and promotes freedom of information (FOI) law.

The Business Support Team plays a vital role in enabling the Scottish Information Commissioner to fulfil their duties by ensuring the organisation operates effectively and efficiently. The team is responsible for the full range of corporate functions, including governance, finance, information management, risk, health and safety, human resources, procurement, contracts, and IT.

The Business Support Team consists of five members and is led by the Head of Business Support who has overall responsibility. The team includes two Business Support Managers, who provide operational oversight and guidance, and two Business Support Administrative Officers, who deliver day to day operational and administrative support

The role is primarily responsible for ensuring efficient operational support for the finance and procurement function, including payroll, contracts, purchase to pay processes, workforce planning, records management, audit and reporting. The role will involve maintaining accurate records, contributing to the preparation of reports, and ensuring compliance with financial policies and procedures. Working proactively and using initiative, the post holder will contribute to proactive forecasting and strategic planning in collaboration with the Business Support Manager. This role will also contribute to the smooth running of the day-to-day activities of the wider Business Support Team, providing cover across other areas when required and supporting organisational projects aimed at improving systems, processes, and efficiency.

You’ll bring:

• Experience in providing administrative support in a finance, procurement, payroll, or contracts environment.
• Demonstrable experience in processing purchase to pay transactions such as managing supplier payments.
• Experience in supporting payroll processes, including collating and checking information for accuracy.
• Strong numerical skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in using finance or procurement systems and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.

We offer

• Interesting, challenging and varied work.
• Inclusive and supportive team culture.
• Strong leadership and management support.
• Comprehensive onboarding and induction programme.
• Competitive salary £31,514 (gross p.a.) FTE, on a scale rising to £34,066 (gross p.a.) FTE
• Work location in St Andrews, Fife.
• Flexible working arrangements (applications on a job share basis are welcome).

We’re on a journey to create fairer communities by facilitating 10 million social entrepreneurs globally by 2030. Do you want to help make this a reality?

We are looking for a customer-focused, well-organised Administrator with strong interpersonal and communication skills to support us in delivering adult learning programmes throughout Scotland.

In this role you will support the provision of administrative, clerical and logistical support for the roll out of programmes across the UK.

You’ll work closely with a small team of Programme Co-ordinators to provide administrative support for a range of tasks relating to delivery online and in the room including diary management, material collation, travel bookings and other logistics whilst maintaining a learner and client database.

Working with the wider Adult Learning team, the role will contribute to the continuous innovation and improvement of internal process and procedures improving the impact of the adult learning offer, building the organisation’s reputation for learning excellence and long-term sector influence.

Having the right mindset, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not have all the listed criteria yet so if you think your experience, skills and attitude will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mindset, we would welcome an application from you.

For a full set of criteria and information on how to apply please download the recruitment pack from our website.

Organisation profile:

At the Social Enterprise Academy, we believe social entrepreneurs play an essential role in changing the world.

We strengthen their role in local communities through transformational learning programmes that will increase their community impact.

Our programmes are accredited, responsive to learner needs, and are delivered by experienced Facilitators who are social change leaders themselves.

Since 2004, we have delivered over 1,900 learning programmes to 28,000+ learners in over 30 countries. We have also engaged over 55,000 young people around the world, using social enterprise as a tool to help them reach their full potential and create positive change in their communities.

Forgewood Housing Cooperative is a community focused registered social landlord operating in the Motherwell locality. As a landlord we not only strive to provide top quality, affordable housing but also contribute significantly to the redevelopment of the area we work within.

Forgewood Housing Co-operative has a long-standing staff sharing agreement with Garrion People’s Housing Co-operative (based in Gowkthrapple, Wishaw). Both co-ops own and operate modern community facilities in the heart of the communities we work within to assist us in the regeneration of the areas.

The post will operate as part of our staff sharing agreement between the two co-ops and will work across both Forgewood and Gowkthrapple ensuring that administrative tasks are carried out to support the maintenance team and carry out reception duties and general administrative duties.

We are looking to recruit a temporary Administrative Assistant – Maintenance (Covering Maternity Leave) to provide a reactive repairs service to tenants over the phone and email including logging calls, assessing and recording repair requirement, arranging for access to carry out repairs, keeping tenants updated on progress of repairs.

If you share our commitment and would enjoy working within the diverse communities of Forgewood and Gowkthrapple and we would like to hear from you.

Organisation profile:

Argyll and Bute Women’s Aid (ABWA) provides information, emotional/practical support, and refuge accommodation and accommodation advice to all women, their children and young people who are experiencing or fleeing domestic abuse from their current or ex- partner.

Purpose of the Post

ABWA is seeking to recruit an experienced Administration Worker. Reporting to the Service Manager, your role will involve providing dedicated admin support to ABWA as an organisation and to the management team. The post holder will be working with other ABWA staff to provide the best possible service to its service users and to maintain and run an effective office system.

You will also be an active member of ABWA’s team.

Hearts & Minds is a Scottish charity bringing joy and emotional support to children in hospital, children with additional support needs, and adults living with dementia through our Clowndoctors and Elderflowers programmes.

We’re seeking a skilled Finance & Administration Officer to help manage our day-to-day finance and office systems. You’ll handle bookkeeping in Xero, support the CEO and accountant with reporting, and maintain systems across Microsoft 365, Teams and Beacon.

This is a varied, hands-on role for someone highly organised, practical and detail-focused.

PVG check required.

Are you an experienced in Payroll and on the lookout for the next step in your career or a fresh new challenge? We could have just the role you are looking for!

This role can be based in either our Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen office, or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen.

This role can be based in either our Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen office, or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen. There will be occasions that we'll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations for meetings and training (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).

The Role

Reporting to our Depute Payroll Lead and working alongside your fellow Payroll Officers, you’ll be involved in the day-to-day activities of our payroll department, ensuring that payments to our colleagues are compliant, accurate and made in a timely manner.

As a main point of contact for our colleague queries, you will use your Payroll expertise to ensure that we deliver a supportive, exceptional service to around 1,800 colleagues across our organisation.

You'll assist in the running of the monthly payroll process to ensure that colleagues are paid on the specified pay date of each month, ensuring that all salary payments are made in line with employment legislation and that deductions are made in line with employment legislation and are recorded and submitted to statutory bodies within timescale.

About You

What we'll need you to bring: -

• A minimum of 2 years' experience of delivering a comprehensive and compliant payroll and pension service (including pension auto-enrolement and RTI)
• Degree or CIPP/IPPM equivalent qualification or extensive experience in a comparable role
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great communication skills (written and verbal)
• The ability to independantly problem solve to a successful conclusion
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and organise your workload to meet tight deadlines
• A proven track record of using Microsoft Office packages, including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• The ability to manage data, create reports and present information clearly and effectively

About Us

With 45 years' experience delivering great care and support, Cornerstone provides tailored, individual packages of care which focus on enabling people with a variety of needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism and complex care needs, to live the best possible life.

We are always flexible and responsive in meeting the ever changing needs of the people we support and work closely with individuals and families to agree what sort of support will work best for them.

What makes Cornerstone a great place to work

• You'll join a friendly, warm and supportive team
• Your job actually contributes to changing and improving lives - you'll make a difference in your local communities
• We have a culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork
• No uniform - we wear our own clothes
• We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons
• We operate a flexi-time model for business support colleagues
• Access to funded qualifications through our SQA approved, award winning Training Academy
• Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities
• Recommend a colleague bonus scheme
• Long service awards
• Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline
• 26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays
• Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave
• Access to lots of discounts, including the cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping to name a few

If you’re up for the challenge and think you have what it takes, then apply, we'd love to hear from you.