Grazings Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 351967**Salary**:

- £32,140 - £34,861**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- B1**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- InvernessAbout the job

**Job summary**:
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.

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.

**Job description**:

- Respond to grazings related enquiries
- Support grazings committees and shareholders in a range of situations which will involve providing advice and correspondence
- 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

**Person specification**:

- 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.**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- Interview and assessment dates are to be confirmed
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:

- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- Finley Beaton
Recruitment team