Scottish Government's Senior Civil Service (SCS) grades 1 and 2 job posts: FOI release

Information requested

Where the Scottish Government (SG) advertise SCS1 and SCS2 posts, and what proportion of those are advertised across the whole civil service (not just to SG), as well as externally.

You also asked how many appointments the SG has made at each SCS1 and SCS2 in the last 12 months, and whether those were permanent, temporary promotion, or interim/contractor appointments and what the recruitment field was (i.e. externally advertised, internal SG only, and not advertised).

Response

I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested.

SCS1 and SCS2 Roles advertised and appointed into – 2025 (to date of request)

	SCS1	SCS2
No. Roles Advertised	49	8
No. of appointments made*	40	6

*Some recruitment is still on going for those advertised / some roles unfilled

SCS1 and SCS2 appointees – 2025 (to date of request)

	SCS1	SCS2
Internal candidate	33	2
OGD candidate**	1	1
External candidate	2	2
SLA	1	-
Secondee	1	1
NFO-FTA***	2	-

** Other Government Department

***Non Fair and Open Fixed Term Appointment

Where SCS1 and SCS2 roles were advertised – 2025 (to date of request)

	SCS1	SCS2
Internal	11	1
Internal EOI****	25	-
Internal and OGD EOI	2	-
External	9	7
NFO-FTA	2	-

****Expression of Interest

All external vacancies, including SCS1 and SCS2, can be found on our Careers site at Homepage - Scottish Government Jobs.

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