Admin Officer

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

- 408242

**Salary**:

- £28,255 - £29,556

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- FLS - Business Services

**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 2

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Kirkton of Durris, Scotland, AB31 6BP : Huntly, Scotland, AB54 4SJ

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
FLS manages nearly 9% of Scotland and East Region is one of five Regions who plan, coordinate and deliver the management of the public forests and land.

East Region extends across 95,000 Ha of public land, from Moray, through Aberdeenshire and Perthshire to the east of Fife. The Regional team is supported by national colleagues, including finance, procurement, people and digital teams, as well as technical experts and professionals in land management.

East Region has a commercial income of £22.5m, largely sourced from timber sales and commercial leases. Operational forestry and land management work is largely carried out through contractors, with a smaller amount of in-house delivery through highly skilled teams.

There is a big focus on improving operational effectiveness and efficiency to achieve delivery of core programmes across FLS at a lower cost and improved margins. Business priorities are harvesting and marketing the sustainable timber volume at an improved margin and lowering civil engineering costs; addressing a backlog of woodland re-establishment through increased planting and management of natural regeneration; supporting the reduction of deer numbers to protect and enhance the forest and biodiversity value; and negotiating leases for renewable energy and interconnector projects. In East Region we also deliver Scottish Government funded programmes of peatland restoration and new woodland creation, in particular the very large project at Glen Prosen, and there are plans to re-establish a significant thinning programme. There is an extensive network of recreation facilities and we work closely with local communities.

**Job description**:
**Person specification**:
Experience**

Essential:

- Experience working in a busy administrative environment and delivering support to internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to plan, organise and manage self, working on your own initiative and as part of a team.
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills.

Technical**

Essential:

- Competent IT user with extensive knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Excel and Word.

Desirable:

- Experience with Oracle based data management systems.

**Things you need to know**:
**Selection process details**:

- Please see our recruitment portal for further details.

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)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code 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.

**Diversity and Inclusion**:

- The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
- 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 : Lyndsey Strachan

**Recruitment team**: