International Delivery and Performance Advisor

Could you turn international activity into meaningful insight that shapes Scotland’s impact on the world?

The International Delivery and Performance Adviser sits at the heart of Scotland’s international agenda, helping ensure that the Scottish Government can clearly demonstrate the impact of its work across a global network of offices, partnerships and programmes. Blending performance, strategy and stakeholder engagement, this role translates complex information into meaningful insight that supports decision-making at the highest levels.

Working across the Directorate for Culture and External Affairs and alongside analysts, policy colleagues and senior leaders, you'll help drive a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring international priorities are effectively tracked, measured and communicated. This is an opportunity to influence how Scotland evidences its international success, strengthens its global reputation and supports informed decisions that deliver real outcomes for people, communities and partners both at home and overseas.

Success Profile

Professional/Technical requirements

• Governance and Project Delivery – Level 2 – Practitioner
• Evaluation – Level 1 – Developing

You can find out more about the skills required, here: Policy Profession Standards Annex (publishing.service.gov.uk

Experience

• Experience of supporting or delivering performance management, monitoring and evaluation activity, with strong analytical skills to interpret data and generate meaningful insights.
• Ability to produce clear, concise briefings and reports for senior audiences
• Ability to work at pace, manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs to tight deadlines

Behaviours

• Working together – Level 2
• Making effective decisions – Level 2
• Communicating and influencing – Level 2
  

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours, here: Success profiles: candidate guide - gov.scot

How to apply

Apply online, providing a CV and supporting statement (of no more than 1000 words) providing evidence of how you meet the behaviours, experience and technical skills listed in the Success Profile above. Both the CV and the supporting statement provided will be assessed against the criteria for the role.

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 artificial intelligence, 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 interview and presentation.

Assessments are scheduled for early December, however this may be subject to change.

Recruitment Principles

As a government organisation, we adhere to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and we investigate any complaints received in relation to recruitment cases.

Skilled Worker Sponsorship not being offered

Skilled Worker sponsorship is not available for this role. As a result, we are unable to appoint candidates who require Skilled Worker sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must have an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK.

About us

The Scottish Government is the devolved government for Scotland. We have responsibility for a wide range of key policy areas including: education, health, the economy, justice, housing and transport. We offer rewarding careers and employ people across Scotland in a wide range of professions and roles.

Our staff are part of the UK Civil Service observing the Civil Service Code and working for Ministers and senior stakeholders to deliver vital public services which improve the lives of the people of Scotland.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more about what we offer.

As part of the UK Civil Service, we uphold the Civil Service Nationality Rules.

Working pattern

Our standard hours are 35 hours per week and we offer a range of flexible working options depending on the needs of the role, including Flexi-leave. Scottish Government staff in hybrid-compatible roles should aim to work in-person 40% of the time, either in an office or other agreed work location. If you have specific questions about the role you are applying for, please contact us.

Security checks

Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).

You can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website, or read about the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide.

Equality statement

We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.

Find out more about our commitment to diversity and how we offer and support recruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them.

Further information

Find out more about our organisation, what we offer staff members and how to apply on our Careers Website.

Read our Candidate Guide for further information on our recruitment and application processes.

Apply before 23:59 - 15/11/26 - This post is open to Internal Scottish Government candidates and Common Citizenship organisations only.