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Waged Placement Funding

  • Employees are an organisation's greatest resource. Fife has a range of employer focussed pathways to work including waged placement funding that help businesses, including third sector organisations to cover some of the costs of recruiting and developing new staff. These opportunities are available for Fife-based businesses.


    Diversity within Fife’s workforce is a key determinant of economic growth and a means of increasing job prospects for people most disadvantaged in the labour market. Waged placement funding can be used to create paid jobs for emerging and challenged business sectors or harder to fill vacancies; and addresses recruitment deficits by helping the employer reach an untapped labour market by targeting funding for people from diverse backgrounds who experience barriers and disadvantages accessing jobs via traditional recruitment routes.

    Fife Council’s Fife Job Contract (FJC) team are responsible for Fife’s waged placement portal and can be contacted at [email protected]

    The Fife Job Contract team engage with public, private and third sector employers and employability partners to help businesses create waged placements at a minimum of the Living Wage for individuals who reside in Fife and who require support to find and stay in work. Waged placements can help create apprenticeships, traineeships and graduateships. The amount of funding available is dependent on employers’ and the prospective employees’ circumstances. Typically, funding can be for 13 weeks for 36 hours per week. The jobs created must be sustainable beyond the period of funding.

    Contact [email protected] to request more information about waged placements or to ask for a Funding Application form.

This page was last updated on 15 September 2025.
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