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Administrative Assistant

Reference:0487 

Salary:Starting salary is £23,970 (£11,985 pro rated) 

Working pattern:Part time, Fixed Term 

Location:Edinburgh or remote 

Closing date:10 November 2024 at midnight 

Are you an organised, detail-oriented individual with strong communication skills? Currently studying for a Diploma in Professional Legal Practice? We invite you to apply for the role of Administrative Assistant with the Scottish Legal Aid Board.

This position offers a dynamic and supportive environment, where you'll be responsible for maintaining electronic files, preparing correspondence, and managing team workflows. You'll be a key player in ensuring tasks are processed efficiently, liaising daily with the Assistant Manager, Compliance Officers and Compliance Administrators. Additionally, you'll handle incoming calls, support diary management, and assist with data input and reporting using Excel.

About us
SLAB was set up in 1987 to manage legal aid in Scotland. We are a non-departmental public body responsible to the Scottish Government. Our main purpose is to manage and continuously improve publicly funded legal assistance and to advise Scottish Ministers on its strategic development for the benefit of society.

If you wish to learn more about us and our direct services, please visit www.slab.org.uk.


Why work for us
We are an ethical organisation, carrying out rewarding work that can have a considerable impact on clients’ lives.
We seek high calibre people and in return, we set out to provide good training and development with rewarding working conditions. We aim to be an ‘employer of choice’. Should you come to work with us, you’ll discover that no matter what your job or level of responsibilities, you are treated as an individual, with fairness, dignity, and respect.

Our stable and secure reward package includes:

• a competitive salary with potential for pay progression
• flexible working arrangements and a great holiday entitlement of 34 days per year (inclusive of public and privilege holidays) increasing after five years of continuous service
• a defined benefit pension scheme with a 6% employee contribution
• job security in a stable environment for long term career progression
• support from colleagues within a rewarding, positive work culture
• opportunities for learning and development while making a difference with challenging tasks for ultimate job satisfaction.

To find out more about working with SLAB and our benefits, visit www.slab.org.uk/working-for-us.

About the role
The main purpose of the role is to provide an efficient administrative service to the Applicant Investigations Unit. Reporting to the Assistant Manager, you will undertake office administrative duties and provide an efficient support service within department. Applicant Investigations is a small team within SLAB. You will liaise closely on a daily basis with the Assistant Manager, three Compliance Officers and four Compliance Administrators for assistance and guidance and regarding workloads and schedules. Due to the nature of the work within the team, you will also have occasional contact with members of the other departments within the Operations Directorate.

This post is a fixed term contract until the end of September 2025 (10 months) on a part time (17.5 hours) basis.

Further details are supplied in our ‘General Information for Applicants’ document.

We are an equal opportunities employer, dedicated to being fair, inclusive and a place where all belong.

We welcome and encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ people.

We will ensure that disclosure of disability status will not negatively impact anyone’s application. We are committed to guaranteeing an interview to every applicant who indicates they have a disability, in terms of the Equality Act 2010, that meets the minimum criteria for the role.


For more details about this role and a full list of essential criteria and required competencies, please see the ‘Additional Information’ section on the vacancy page of our recruitment portal.

Completed applications should be returned by midnight on Sunday, 10 November 2024. Interviews will likely be organised after 18 November 2024.

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