Scottish Government organisational chart and workforce information: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for an organisational chart covering the departments of the Scottish Government and the titles of all job posts and staff numbers by teams.

Response

I enclose a copy of of the information you requested in an excel spreadsheet.

Table 1 provides a “snapshot” of all directly employed staff as at 31 March 2024. The data includes job title, grade, organisational area and FTE - providing the information requested of employees job title and organisational hierarchical structure. The data has been shared in this format because of the nature of job title information. This is a user entry field and often relates to a specific role. Of the 9,222 directly employed staff in the Scottish government there are over 5,000 unique job titles. The data has been extracted from Scottish governments HR systems and is in line with the latest published official workforce statistics available here Scottish Government workforce information - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). The HR system is an administrative database. As such, it is continually updated when workers join and leave the Scottish Government and personal details change. As with any large scale administration system, it may be subject to errors with data entry and processing, and short delays in processing changes to the data. Therefore there is a possibility that there may be out of date data or errors presented, as the “snapshot” may be taken at a point before records are updated or corrected. We are currently in the process of mapping roles to professions and replacing our HR administrative systems. This process of replacing our systems has limited the number of organisational changes made in the HR system which may also have an impact on the quality of data presented.

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FOI 202400420599 - Information Released - Attachment

File type

Excel document

File size

450.5 kB