B2 Statistical Support Officer

Description

Do you have strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to respond quickly to new demands and manage competing priorities and tasks to support the delivery of key business priorities?

The Analysis and Insight team delivers analytical support to Social Security Scotland across three professional specialisms – Social Research, Operational Research and Statistics – providing evidence, analysis and insights across devolved benefit delivery. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with team leaders to support the prioritisation and management of work that informs decision making across Social Security Scotland.

The statistics team, on which this post will be based, produces official statistics publications and management information, as well as leading a range of developmental work to meet the data needs of internal and external stakeholders. This post is an exciting opportunity to be part of the team and lead work to improve the business processes that are used to prioritise work and communicate progress to help deliver key business outputs.

• Lead work to update the priorities tracker tool to maintain the list of priorities that Analysis and Insights statistics teams are currently working on, ensuring that captured priorities are accurate and up to date; progress is documented and assigned resource is recorded.
• Provide regular overviews to inform team leaders and senior leaders of current progress against priorities, highlight risks in delivery and document any decisions taken by team leaders to re‑prioritise or re‑allocate resources.
• Provide support to team leaders in project planning.
• Support the maintenance of the unit risk register, ensuring content is routinely reviewed and updated.
• Support the management of the statistics team mailbox, documenting data requests and the assignment of tasks to team members.
• Support the maintenance of documentation such as updating forthcoming publications on our website and the Scottish Government’s website.
• General business support to the statistics teams in Analysis and Insights.

Success Profiles

We use an assessment framework called Success Profiles which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about how we assess the Success Profile elements.

Experience

Experience of collating a variety of data and/or information to support decision making, including the maintenance and improvement of trackers using Excel or any other tool.

• Working Together – Level 3
• Changing and Improving – Level 3
• Communicating and Influencing – Level 3
• Delivering at Pace – Level 3

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here.

Apply online. You must provide a CV and a Supporting Statement (of no more than 1000 words) which provides evidence of how you meet the Success Profiles above.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application, but all statements and examples provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others or generated by AI and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please see our candidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.

If invited for further assessment this will consist of an online interview and presentation.

We aim to provide feedback on request. However, if we receive a large number of applications it may not be possible for us to provide specific feedback on your application. We will provide feedback on request to candidates who attend an interview/assessment.

Sift From 1st December 2025

Interview From 12th December 2025

In the event that there are more successful candidates than posts available, a reserve list will be kept for up to 3 months.

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