Corporate Services Officer

The closing date for applications is Sunday 16th November at 23:59.

Late submissions will not be considered

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 26th November 2025.

Scotland Excel is continuing to experience a growing demand for our capability as a centre of procurement expertise for public sector, from local authorities across Scotland and other organisations in the public domain.

We are recruiting for a permanent Corporate Services Officer to support the HR function on a day-to-day basis. This role is similar to a HR Assistant, HR Advisor and HR Officer.

You will work very closely with the HR and Development Specialist and Corporate Services Manager to provide a very professional and efficient HR service to all our colleagues.

It is an exciting time to join the team as we progress with embedding our updated Colleague Journey and our Values in all aspect of that journey. We are also improving and digitalising a number of HR systems and processes.

We have three Corporate Services Officers within the Business Services team and while you will predominately support the HR function you will also support Finance and Office Services as required.

The right person will support a wide range of HR projects that bring transformational change or continuous improvement to the HR function. Complete daily tasks with efficiency and accuracy, lead on their own personal development. You must be a team player, an excellent communicator and have the ability to observe the need for confidentiality in dealing with work duties and data of a sensitive nature.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily management of the HR Enquiries inbox, responding to or escalating any internal or external enquiries e.g. absences, flexible working, leavers, training requests, retirements, all types of leave e.g. careers leave, and other general enquiries.
• Support the administration of the recruitment process to achieve efficient and cost-effective outcomes and to comply with the necessary recruitment processes as required.
• Support Recruitment Managers with any recruitment campaigns from start to finish i.e. a pre meeting with the recruitment manager to plan the campaign through to issuing a contract of employment.
• Being a key part of the onboarding process for all new colleagues, including conducting HR inductions for all new colleagues.
• Ensuring all data required for payroll purposes is processed accurately and on time.
• Supporting internal communications including the issue of colleague newsletters, updating and maintaining our intranet and you will be heavily involved in developing a new intranet platform.
• Completing daily, weekly, and monthly checklists e.g. annual declaration of interests, HR reporting, sending information to payroll etc.
• Ensuring all HR trackers and HR Hubs are kept up to date e.g. payroll and leave tracker, graduate hub.
• Assisting with any other employee relations; health and safety; equality, diversity and inclusion; as well as learning and development actions as required.

Desired Qualifications and Relevant Experience

• Educated to SVQ 3 or equivalent qualification(s). A degree or professional qualification would be advantageous but not essential.
• Experience of human resources and finance/budgetary practices.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and effective in the use of IT systems and data management.

The following values are at the heart of everything we do at Scotland Excel and the successful candidate will be expected the demonstrate these daily:

• Professional
• Respectful
• Courageous
• Integrity

About Scotland Excel

Scotland Excel is an award-winning Centre of Procurement Expertise providing a wide range of procurement, commissioning, consultancy, and learning and development services for our members.

Since 2008, we have helped to establish procurement as an effective driver for local and national economic growth and wellbeing. Our £2bn portfolio of collaborative contracts supports the delivery of savings, social value, community benefits, fair work practices and environmental policy, and covers a wide range of public services including construction, roads, transport, environment, corporate and education.

Scotland Excel also develops and manages arrangements which support the commissioning of care services for children and adults. Our national care contracts are developed in partnership with care professionals, including care providers, to support person-centred outcomes embedded within national policy.

We also provide procurement and consultancy services to help our members get the most from their procurement resources, ranging from ad-hoc tendering support through to transformation programmes and strategic procurement partnerships.

The Scotland Excel Academy offers applied learning programmes leading to accredited qualifications in procurement, leadership and management, coaching and mentoring, project management and business analysis, as well as short courses and workshops.

Scotland Excel is a non-profit organisation working with members from across the public sector including local authorities, health and social care partnerships, housing associations, and other public and third sector organisations.

As well as a competitive salary, you will have:

• Access to a defined benefits pension with Strathclyde Pension Fund. Current combined contribution of employee and employer varies depending on earnings but can be between 24-32%
• A generous holiday allowance of 33 days including public holidays. This increases on a sliding scale up to an additional ten days subject to length of service
• Flexible working opportunities including hybrid working and a nine-day fortnight
• Access to staff discounts through Vivup employee benefit platform
• Time off during office closure over Christmas and New Year (included in holiday allowance)
• Our commitment to employee engagement including regular corporate and team events as recently recognised by us retaining Gold Investors In People Award
• A wealth of training opportunities including from our own award-winning Academy

How to apply

We welcome applications from all backgrounds, whether it is public or private sector.

We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and guarantee an interview to those candidates who meet the essential requirements for the position. If you have a disability, please make us aware when submitting your application.

To be considered for this post please submit your CV (max 3 pages). Please note we may ask you to complete an additional form as part of the recruitment process.

All applicants will be asked to provide proof of their right to work in the UK, and any offer of employment will be conditional upon verifying documentary evidence before employment commences.