Digital Skills & Learning Adviser

Job Details

Closing Date: Sunday 29 March 2026

Contract Type: Temporary until March 2027

Salary: FC8 £41,972.91 - £45,990.00

Working Pattern: 36 hours per week

Location: Fife House, Glenrothes

We are ambitious for Fife, both for our communities and our workforce of around 18,500 employees. We recognise that being a digital Council can help us deliver greater opportunities for all aspects of the services and our aspiration is to have a digitally inclusive Fife.

Our employees are our greatest asset, and if we are to succeed in meeting our vision of a confident, successful, and fairer Fife, we need to develop a digital workforce who are confident to work in new ways and who have the necessary skills.

The purpose of this role is to develop and deliver training, learning, and support that drives digital skills and digital learning priorities across Fife Council. To be responsible for collaborative project work and the provision of consultancy support that drives Corporate and Directorate requirements relating to digital skills, learning, digital optimisation and transformation, and performance improvement through organisational development.

You will lead and contribute to transformational training and the development of programmes and activities across the organisation to improve both individual services and wider organisational effectiveness through digital skills and learning. You will develop and deliver courses, webinars, bitesize/micro learning and other creative learning solutions from initial development and design to delivery as well as evaluation, including redesign as necessary.

Your main duties will include:

• Being part of Fife Councils project to establish and effectively run a Digital Champions network across the workforce
• Creating and delivering learning solutions based around the Councils use of the Microsoft 365 suite of products and our Oracle cloud system (employee & manager HR self-service, Procurement, Recruitment, Learning management system & eLearning platform)
• Design and Create eLearning courses
• Maintaining and further developing our internal employee digital support sites (built using SharePoint)
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of programmes and projects
• Due to this post being short term, temporary, it requires the ability to pick up projects and apply skills and knowledge in areas immediately. You will engage with staff at different locations throughout Fife, as well as regularly visiting our office base of Fife House in Glenrothes, however we have a blended work approach allowing homeworking for the remainder of your working time.

The Person

You must be educated to SCQF level 8, preferably in a technology related subject (this includes HND or SQV level 4). You should have strong digital skills, knowledge, and mindset, with post qualification experience within a learning and development setting and you will also have experience in digital skills training design and delivery.

You will have the ability to organise work, ensuring quality control and delivery to deadlines while working autonomously.

Due to the fast pace of the work, a proactive mindset and the ability to contribute straight away is essential.

You will need to evidence the ability to engage staff at all levels, while also to providing advice to colleagues and an ability to reconcile conflicting viewpoints and demands.

Analytical skills are required to research, interpret and present complex information derived from a range of sources, and identifying options and best practice in digital skills development.