Job Description

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 30 June 2025

Closing Date: Wednesday 25 June 2025

Contract Type: Temporary until 31 March 2026

Salary: FC8 40,358.57 to 44,225.49

Working Pattern: 36 hours per week

Location: Fife House, Glenrothes

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a

Supporting Statement

which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site.

Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked 'upload resume'. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV.

More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement

Job Details

You will lead and co-ordinate efforts to reduce child poverty by improving connections between employability services and other supports. Working across the Opportunities Fife Partnership and in collaboration with council teams and third sector partners, you will ensure that service delivery is aligned, effective, and targeted at helping families overcome barriers to work.


You will facilitate delivery through the establishment of a Delivery Leads Group, coordinate partnership activity, manage budgets, oversee monitoring and reporting processes, and support the creation of promotional materials and best practice case studies. You will also provide support to Delivery Partners in using the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, and will extract data from the system to support monitoring, reporting, and review activities.


You will also contribute to funding applications and policy development, helping to drive systemic change in how child poverty is tackled locally

The Person

You should be educated to SCQF Level 9 (e.g., Degree or equivalent), with experience in employability or skills services. A solid understanding of national and local policy relating to employability and child poverty is essential. You must have strong partnership-working skills, experience in project and budget management, and excellent written and verbal communication.


Familiarity with CRM systems, preparing reports for senior audiences, and making successful funding applications will be advantageous. You should be proactive, organised, and confident in managing relationships across services and sectors

Further Information

Role Profile -

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How We Work Matters -

Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information.

Employee Benefits -

Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services

Directorate Information -

Council Department information

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Alternative Formats

- Job information can be made available in alternative formats, to make a request please email: transactions.recruitment@fife.gov.uk

We are currently shaping our future workstyles however, in light of current advice, we are introducing blended home/office working that will include office access days each week with homeworking for the remainder of your working time

For more information, please contact: Vicky Brown, Vicky.brown@fife.gov.uk