Appointment of up to two Members of Community Justice Scotland

Edinburgh - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

ROLE SUMMARY

Community Justice Scotland (CJS) is the national body for promoting monitoring and supporting improvement in the delivery of community justice services across and local partners provide community justice services to ensure that while people who have broken the law are held to account they are also supported to address underlying causes of offending behaviour and rehabilitate to reconnect with and contribute to their community.

Launched on 1st April 2017 by theCommunity Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 CJS aims to create a more robust and effective community justice system based on local planning and local delivery by a range of statutory partners. CJS provides national leadership and oversight to support and guide these partners to deliver theNational Strategy for Community Justice.

CJS Members are appointed by Scottish Ministers. The Membership plays a key role in setting the strategy direction plans and policies of CJS so that it fulfils the aims policies and priorities of the Scottish of the two roles advertised is an excellent opportunity to make a difference to individuals and communities across Scotland by helping us work with our wide range of partners to reduce offending and victimisation.

Further information about what we do is available on theCJS website.

Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

Public Appointees are responsible for:

ensuring that the public body delivers its functions in accordance with Scottish Ministers policies and priorities
providing strategic leadership
ensuring financial stewardship
holding the Chief Executive and senior management team to account

Further information about the role and the board can be found in the applicant information pack.

Qualifications

ROLE CRITERIA

The successful applicants must be able to demonstrate evidence of at least one of the following priority criteria:

Priority criteria

Role 1 - Lived Experience of the Scottish Criminal Justice System (User Perspective)

Role 2 - IT / Digital / Data & Change Management

They will also need to demonstrate evidence of all of the essential criteria:

Essential criteria

Role 1

Working co-operatively and collaboratively
Seeing the bigger picture
Constructive and supportive challenge
Communication and influencing

Role 2

Working co-operatively and collaboratively
Seeing the bigger picture
Constructive and supportive challenge
Communication and influencing
Analysis and Decision making

Please follow these instructions to apply for theMemberroles.

Download the applicant information pack. This will explain more about the role the board and the application process.
You will be asked to supply some personal information and then complete the questions relating to political activity and any conflicts of interest.
You will be asked to evidence the priority and essential criteria questions and upload your CV. You must complete these questions in order to apply for this role.

Late applications cannot be considered by the panel.

Full details on how to apply and the evidence that should be submitted at the application stage are set out at pages 7 - 15 of the applicant information pack.

Completed applications must be submitted by 1pm on Tuesday 21 April 2026.

ABOUT US

Public appointments are made by Scottish Ministers. The appointments process is regulated by the Ethical Standards Commissioner you can find out more about the Commissioner here:Public appointments Ethical Standards Commissioner

REMUNERATION AND TIME COMMITMENT

In 2026-27 the CJS Membership willreceive a daily fee of 271 for every day of not less than 7.5hours (excluding meal breaks) devoted to performing your functions on a pro rata basis up to a maximum total fee of 5420 per financial year. The time commitment is up to 20 days per year as and when required.

The appointments are non-pensionable.

EQUALITY STATEMENT

Scottish Ministers value highly the benefits of diverse Public Body Boards. People from all walks of life are encouraged to apply for public appointments.

Find out more about our commitment todiversityand how we offer and supportrecruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them.

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the appointments process or if require further support with your application please contact the Public Appointments Team at.

Find out more about public appointments here:Public appointments - ()

FAQs about the application process is here:Public Appointments - Frequently Asked Questions.

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 theUK Government website and read about the Government Vetting Charter or about all of the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide.
Internal candidates may need to gain higher security clearance than they currently hold if successful in their application.

Additional Security Information

CTC

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting atCounter TerroristSecurity Check (CTC)clearance level for this vacancy You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken which forCTC is3years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC)clearance level for this will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken which for SCis 5 yearsUK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service all candidates must also obtain National Security VettingatDeveloped Vetting level.

You will normally need to meet theminimumUK residency period asdeterminedby the level of vetting being undertaken which forDVis10years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

Reserved Posts

Only UK nationals may be employed in reserved posts in the Civil Service. Reserved posts aregenerally thosewhich due to the sensitive nature of the work require special allegiance to the Crown such that they can only be held by a UK national. Irish nationals and Commonwealth citizens are also eligible for employment in reserved posts if they were in the Civil Serviceat31 May 1996 orbefore orwere appointed from a recruitment scheme with a closing date for receipt of applications before 1 June 1996.

Under no circumstances may any other nationals be employed in reserved posts.

You can find further details on the posts that fall underReserved Postsstatus.

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