Capabilities & Resources - HR Reward team - Senior Reward Manager Liverpool, England
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The Home Office has a compelling and simple agenda: to keep our borders secure and our citizens safe and there are few organisations with a more compelling mission. Across the three missions – Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Migration & Borders – underpinned by five capabilities – Customer Services, Borders and Enforcement, Legal, Corporate Enablers, Communications – our workforce is over 38,000, and in a variety of roles, from policy making and working with Ministers to those delivering front-line operations.
These are challenging areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in – this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.
Job description
This is an exciting time to join the HR Reward team as we continue to review and transform all aspects of Home Office reward policies and processes, underpinned by the Home Office’s People Strategy. The team covers everything to do with pay and reward for delegated grades and Senior Civil Servants (SCS), including:
- Pay awards
- Grading
- Pensions
- Allowances
- Performance rewards, and
- Staff benefits plus our employee value proposal (EVP)
This is a challenging and varied role reporting to the Deputy Head of Reward, where the successful individual will make a significant contribution to the delivery of the pay and reward service, plus support the development of fair and competitive reward strategies that attract and retain for ‘A Brilliant Civil Service’. You will have lead accountability for several specific projects while also being a real team player supporting policy development and projects across the team. The role offers a significant amount of opportunity, autonomy, and flexibility.
Person specification
Responsibilities include:
- Design pay models, collating and analysing data to develop costed options to support the annual pay award process and projects for both delegated and SCS grades.
- Provide tailored advice to senior managers, the business and HR colleagues on complex pay and reward issues through:
o Collating, researching, analysing and interpreting data and insights from a range of internal and external sources
o Identifying risks and options, and developing evidence based solutions
o Undertaking pay and reward casework
- Maintain policies on all aspects of pay, allowances, pensions, and the Job Evaluation Grading System (JEGS), including:
o Keeping up to date with changes in legislation, case law and wider HR trends
o Service improvement activities to both improve customer experience and utilise resources more effectively
o Developing innovative, creative and specialist reward solutions, all within Departmental, Cabinet Office and HMT requirements
- Use external market data to respond to a variety of benchmarking requests
- Draft briefings for senior officials and responses to PQs, FOIs, complex case work and data requests according to Departmental deadlines and protocols.
- Conduct horizon scanning across the business, for example in collaboration with HRBPs and professions, to identify challenges and opportunities for the pay and reward offer
- Maintain excellent relationships with key stakeholders, including engaging with other Departments and Cabinet Office to ensure the service continues to add value and provides knowledgeable, timely and innovative strategic reward advice.
- Support will be available on a matrix management basis from within the Reward team and may require line management responsibility for 1 or 2 staff.
Essential Criteria
- HR experience including track record of delivery of policy and improvements in reward within a large, complex organisation and/or a variety of business model operations.
- Excel, analytical and numerical skills, including experience of pay modelling, working with HR systems, and conducting data and trend analysis.
- Interpersonal skills to develop and maintain collaborative and productive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including Trades Unions.
- Excellent written communication skills, including experience of reviewing and quality assuring drafts of reports, briefings, or complex queries, challenging for accuracy and sense checking.
- Strategic and creative thinking to develop, and deliver on, engaging, valued and inclusive reward initiatives and projects.
- Experience of working at pace and delivering quality outcomes which meet customer need.
- Organisation skills to prioritise own workload and meet potentially challenging deadlines, while maintaining a strong attention to detail.
Desirable Criteria
- Chartered Member of the CIPD or willing to progress towards this.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and Suitability Statement (Max Word Limit: 500).
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
The Statement of Suitability should concisely explain your motivation for applying to this role, and evidencing how you meet the essential criteria listed above.
The sift will be based on the the Suitability Statement.
The CV is for information purposes only and will not be marked.
Candidates shortlisted will be invited to an interview which will be Behaviour based questions on all listed behaviours.
You will be invited to attend a video interview utilising Skype for Business or Microsoft Teams.
Sift and Interview Dates
Sift will take place from - 10th April 2023
Interviews will take place week commencing - 24th April 2023 (subject to change).
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to time constraints we may not be able to offer alternative interview date(s). It is therefore expected that candidates who are successful at sift stage will make themselves available during the above time frame given.
Further information
For meaningful checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years if the role requires CTC clearance, 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. A lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
A reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.
Every day, Home Office civil servants do brilliant work to develop and deliver policies and services that affect the lives of people across the country and beyond. To do this effectively and fairly, the Home Office is committed to representing modern Britain in all its diversity, and creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best.
We are flexible, skilled, professional and diverse. We work to recruit and retain disabled staff and area Disability Confident Leader. We are proud to be one of the most ethnically diverse departments in the civil service. We are a Social Mobility Foundation top 75 employer.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
For further information please see the attached notes for candidates which must be read before making an application.
Existing Civil Servants should note that some of the Home Office terms and conditions of employment have changed. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the Terms and Conditions they will adopt should they be successful in application and should refer to the notes for candidates for further details.
Transfer Terms: Voluntary.
If you are invited to an interview you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks.
Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.
Any move to the Home Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
- Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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