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This is an excellent opportunity for a disabled person (including D/deaf) to learn core policy skills such as undertaking responses to Parliamentary Questions and managing correspondence while supporting key policies and projects in relation to COVID-19.  Payment:              Grade B1, approximately £26,155 per annum Accountable to:   Katherine May, Policy Manager Contract:              37 hours per… Continue Reading Policy and Communications Officer Internship of the Scottish Government (Closing date: 10:00 am Wednesday 2 December 2020)

This is an excellent opportunity for a disabled person (including D/deaf) who has an interest in social research and the work of Social Security in Scotland. The successful candidate will be able to develop skills in engagement and communications as well as gaining office experience in an analytical team. Payment:          Grade B1, approximately £26,155… Continue Reading Engagement Internship with the Social Security Research Team of the Scottish Government (Closing date: 10:00 am Monday 30 November 2020)

This is an excellent opportunity for a disabled person (including D/deaf) who has an interest in social research and the work of Social Security in Scotland. The successful candidate will be able to develop skills in business administration and data management as well as gaining office experience in an analytical team. Payment:          Grade B1,… Continue Reading Business and Data Management Internship with the Social Security Research Team of the Scottish Government (Closing date: 10:00 am Monday 30 November 2020)

Callum Hendry is completing his internship with Angus MacDonald MSP. He has written a blog about what it has been like to work at the Scottish Parliament, included the highlights and detailed the flexibility that’s made it a great place to work! Before starting the internship, I had been unemployed for 2 years. Since graduating… Continue Reading My Internship experience, the first step on a new journey.

Eleanor Macleod is completing her internship with The Scottish Government in the Communities Analysis Division. She has written a blog about what it has been like to work at the Scottish Government, included the highlights and detailed the adjustments that’s made it a great place to work! Panic, Fear & Dread. These were the three… Continue Reading My Experience as a Social Security Intern

Lily Pattison interned with the Scottish Prison Service for 4 months in the Equality and Diversity Team. Lily details below about what it was like to work at the Scottish Prison Service, what her internship included and the adjustments that made it a great place to work! Working at the Scottish Prison Service over the… Continue Reading This internship will shine on my CV for many years to come!

Rebecca Farren interned with Neil Findlay MSP for 4 months with an Parliamentary Internship. These internships give disabled people a chance to get experience of parliamentary research and processes in the Scottish Parliament. Here she tells us about working at parliament, settling in to Edinburgh, managing PAs and adjustments in work, and where she is… Continue Reading I found my new normal and it was fantastic!

Laura Chapman, aka ‘Mole’ was an intern with Christina McKelvie MSP for the SNP from January to April 2018. She did parliamentary research on Universal Credit, speech writing and worked on a parliamentary bill about domestic abuse. Below, Mole tells us about what the internship has meant to her. Hope you enjoy the read, we… Continue Reading Mole’s internship blog “Thank you for joy!”