Environmental Briefing and Correspondence Officer

We are currently seeking applications for the role of Environmental Briefing and Correspondence Officer.

Responsibilities

• Collate information and draft responses to First Minister’s Questions, Parliamentary Questions, FOI/EIR, correspondence, emails and press lines relating to environment and sustainability issues.
• Providing high quality and timely advice, through briefing and submissions to Ministers and senior managers on the environment and sustainability work the unit undertakes. Oversee the collation of all briefing material within the team. Seek and provide relevant contributions from other teams/directorates within TS/SG, and liaise with Private Office as required.
• Monitor and issue responses to queries received via the Low Emission Zones and Blue Badge enquiries inboxes.
• Maintain project management and correspondence records and track actions across the Environment & Sustainability team – includes seeking weekly updates from team members and updating as necessary.
• Support B3’s/team head with various work streams as required. Tasks vary from proof reading, minute taking, attendance at stakeholder meetings, assisting with creation of documents including PowerPoint, consultation development, supporting the delivery of LEZs in Scotland.
• Support the production and delivery of the communications plan around air quality and low emission zones.
• Support the updating and maintenance of the Scottish LEZ website working with our website provider.
• Lead responsibility for designing and maintaining the environment and sustainability (operational and project) elements of the Transport Scotland website. This will require coordination with our Communications team.   

Background

Transport Scotland is the national transport agency for Scotland and is accountable to Parliament and the public through Scottish Ministers, with a budget of around £3.5 billion per year. Transport is a vital feature of the Scottish Government's focus on increasing sustainable economic growth, and transport investments and policies have major impacts on the economy, people, and the environment.