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Business Administration Modern Apprentice at Museums Galleries Scotland

Museums Galleries Scotland • Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom • £24.25k - £35.40k / year • 2w ago

- Salary: £24,379 per annum pro rata (£19,503)
- Closing date: 7 April, 2025
- MGS Role

Business Administration Modern Apprentice at Museums Galleries Scotland

Working Hours: Part Time (28 hours per week)
Contract: Fixed term for 12 months
Salary: £24,379 per annum pro rata (£19,503)
Location: Edinburgh/Hybrid
Closing date: Monday 7th April 2025 @ midnight

About the Role

Museums Galleries Scotland is the National Development Body for the Scottish museums sector. We’re here to support more than 440 museums and galleries, whether through strategic investment, advice, advocacy, skills development or other means.

This is an opportunity to contribute to the work of a busy team, learn valuable vocational skills and gain a qualification in Business Administration at SCQF level 6.

Modern Apprenticeships provide an alternative route into the world of work. The Business Administration Modern Apprentice is a varied role working with a range of colleagues and contacts to support the day to day running of an organisation. It offers the chance to develop new skills in all aspects of office administration including facilities, supporting compliance activities in our Scottish Qualifications Authority (‘SQA’) Assessment Centre, supporting meetings and events and being involved in project administration.

With a strong collaborative approach, the Business Administration Modern Apprentice brings a positive, can-do attitude, great organisational skills and an interest in supporting and improving business processes. This role gives the opportunity to be involved in a variety of projects and programmes and to be a point of connection across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will manifest our core values: collaboration, integrity, passion for museums, and courageousness.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

Demonstrable administrative skills
Strong organisational skills and managing a varied workload
Attention to detail
Ability to use initiative
Working with data (written and numerical) and documents
Understanding of business processes
Strong customer focus and ability to communicate positively with a range of people
Pro-active attitude to learning and development
Confident using (or learning to use) a range of digital platforms

Preferred

Organising or supporting events, hospitality or travel
Use of Microsoft Teams or similar software
Nat 4 qualification or equivalent or equivalent experience

Preference will be given to applicants who:

have not completed (or are due to complete) a university degree;
do not have significant paid work experience in the museums sector;
have experienced barriers to employment.

We work with staff to help everyone reach their potential in the workplace and welcome conversations with individuals about their needs, circumstances and aspirations.

HOW YOU WORK

MGS has a behavioural competency framework which describes how we expect people to go about their work day-to-day. Staff must demonstrate the following skills areas at an appropriate level:

Works collaboratively
Communicating with impact
Respect, inclusion and integrity
Effective decision-making
Sector focus
Drive for results
Innovation, agility and building capability

In particular this role requires someone who collaborates well and promotes this approach across teams, can make effective decisions following appropriate criteria, organises and plans work effectively, readily contributes ideas and willingly adapts working practices to support changes.

All staff are expected to champion and help deliver MGS’s commitments to anti-racism and climate action.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Although this is a hybrid role, regular office attendance in Edinburgh will be required. This will be agreed with the line manager.

Please download the job information pack for the full details of this role.

How to Apply

Please visit the Apprenticeships.scot website to apply

Closing date: Monday 7th April 2025 @ midnight

Please note that interviews for this post are planned to take place online on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 April 2025.

If you have any queries please contact hr@museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk, including the name of the post in the subject box, or call 01315504150 or 01315504197.

Job Information Pack

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