The Highland and Western Isles Valuation Joint Board

Job vacancies

Electoral Canvassers

Salary - £11.26 per hour with mileage rate of 45p per mile.

Applications are invited for electoral canvassers to assist us with our annual canvass of electors and to assist us with canvassing throughout the year. Canvassers will work alongside staff in our area offices to doorstep canvass properties in the following areas - Inverness and surrounding area, Badenoch and Strathspey, Lochaber and surrounding area, Skye & Lochalsh, Caithness and Ross and Cromarty.

You will be required to visit assigned properties and make attempts to obtain electoral information for all of these properties with the use of a tablet. You must ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times.

Full training will be provided. You will also be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure Check.

An application form must be completed. CVs will not be accepted.

To find out more information on the role or to discuss the detailed job description or person specifications, please contact Kirsty Mackenzie,

The Highland & Western Isles Valuation Joint Board,
Moray House, 16-18 Bank Street,
Inverness, IV1 1QY

Email: Kirsty.Mackenzie1@highland.gov.uk

Application forms should be returned marked private and confidential to our Moray House address.


Valuer

Salary - £35,122.93 - £41,583.36

Applications are invited for this post based at the Board's Headquarters office at Moray House, 16-18 Bank Street, Inverness.

The above post is open to qualified Chartered Surveyors, preferably with experience and knowledge of rating and council tax valuation, law and practice.

Further Information

For this post good interpersonal, communication and computer skills are essential. You will be expected to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within the valuation area to meet the operational needs of the department.

You will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure Check.

To find out more information on the role please contact:

Fiona Rostock, Divisional Valuer and Stephen MacKenzie, Assistant Assessor,

The Highland and Western Isles Valuation Joint Board,
Moray House, 16-18 Bank Street,
Inverness, IV1 1QY

Email: assessor@highland.gov.uk

An application form must be completed. CVs will not be accepted.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is 5pm on Friday 29 March 2024.

Application forms should be returned marked private and confidential to our Moray House address.