Description review

Deputy Private Secretary

Scottish Government · Edinburgh, United Kingdom · back to the listing

HR standards

33/100

poor

Title ↔ description

66/100

needs work

Reads as

Executive Assistant

99% confident

What this role officially is

executive assistant — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Executive assistants are advanced administrative professionals who work with top-level executives or in international facilities in various industries. They organise meetings, organise and maintain files, arrange travel, train staff members, communicate in other languages, and manage the day-to-day operations of the office.

Also known as: foreign language assistant, foreign language correspondent executive assistant, executive secretary, personal executive assistant, senior administrative secretary, assistant manager

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

This is an Expression of Interest (EOI) opportunity, available on a lateral move basis only. Applications are open to Core Scottish Government employees only.

Job Title – Deputy Private Secretary

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 49 before penalties). Reviewed 25 Sep 2026.