The Role

The Staff Officer is a frontline supervisory position in Fingal County Council with responsibility for managing the performance of a section or function within a Department.

The Staff Officer will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the Council, assisting with the implementation of work programmes to achieve goals, targets, and standards set out in Department and Team development plans.

The Staff Officer will generally work under the direction and management of a Senior Staff Officer and may from time to time, be required to deputise for a more senior grade. The successful candidate will therefore require excellent administrative, communications and people management skills as the role entails assuming supervisory and budgetary responsibility for a particular division of the local authority.
 

Qualifications and requirements of the post

Character
Candidates shall be of good character.

Health
Candidates shall be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.

Education, training, experience, etc.

On the latest date for receipt of completed application forms, candidates shall:

i.(a) have obtained at least Grade D (or a pass), in Higher or Ordinary Level, in five subjects (or four subjects if Irish is included) from the approved list of subjects in the Department of Education Established Leaving Certificate Examination or Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme including Irish and/or English and one of the following: Mathematics, Accounting, Business Organisation or Economics and

(b) have obtained at least Grade C (or Honours) in higher level (or Honours) papers in three subjects in that examination (or two subjects if Irish and/or one of the following is included: Mathematics, Accounting, Business Organisation or Economics) or

ii. have obtained a comparable standard in an equivalent examination, or

iii. hold a third level qualification of at least degree standard

Or

iv. be a serving employee in a local authority, or a regional assembly and have not less than two years’ satisfactory experience in a post of Clerical Officer or analogous post

Further information is available in the Candidate Information Booklet available on our website