About the job

Job summary

We are looking for someone who loves working with Excel and wants to play a key role in the design and delivery of the pay and reward strategy at the House of Lords. This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in our pay negotiations, as well as having oversight of our range of benefits!

You’ll be joining our Employee Experience and Reward team as the Reward and Benefits Manager in our HR office. In this exciting role you will Lead the Reward and Benefits function to ensure the successful implementation of the reward strategy.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves getting stuck into a spreadsheet and wants to drive the benchmarking of our reward and recognition framework, feeding into Our People Strategy aim to Attract and Retain the best people. If you have a positive, proactive, and collaborative approach, we would love to hear from you. This opportunity is hybrid with a mixture of working from home and on the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Parliamentary Estate.

Job description

You’ll be responsible for:

• Leading the Reward and Benefits function to ensure the successful implementation of the reward strategy.
• Preparing papers and recommendations for changes to reward and benefits.
• Driving the benchmarking of the reward and recognition framework.
• Providing expert advice to inform individual pay decisions.
• Working collaboratively with our Trade Union Side to ensure we maintain a constructive and collaborative partnership, playing a key role in pay negotiations.
• Providing analysis and narrative for statutory reports, such as gender and ethnicity pay gaps.
• An expert guidance and support service on the range of benefits offerings, including the Civil Service Pensions Schemes.
• The allowances framework, ensuring that this meets business needs and drives positive behaviours.
• Collaboration with colleagues in the House of Commons, Joint Departments and bicameral teams to support effective cross-parliamentary working and deliver on joint projects, e.g., specialist pay.

Person specification

What we’re looking for:

1. Pay and Reward – Knowledge of public sector pay systems, with demonstrable experience of developing costed pay proposals, including benchmarking exercises, contributing to union negotiations and providing expert advice.
2. HR Benefits – Demonstrable understanding of non-financial benefits and proven experience supporting benefits packages, ideally including a proven track record of researching and designing new benefits.
3. Interpersonal skills - Demonstrable self-awareness and experience of influencing a range of managers, senior leaders and colleagues and establishing credibility as a trusted expert.
4. Management Skills – Demonstrable ability to motivate and develop others, work effectively in a team, promote a values-led, diverse and inclusive working environment. Previous line management experience is not essential.
5. Planning and Organising – Proven experience of managing multiple priorities successfully, setting and meeting deadlines for yourself and others and adjusting plans to respond to changing circumstances.
6. Change Management – Proven experience of implementing change effectively, identifying and communicating key messages to diverse audiences, building stakeholder understanding and buy-in, and measuring success.

Benefits

Details of our employee benefits can be found at https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/lords/lordshro/employee-benefits/

What you’ll get in return:

• 30 days annual leave (increasing to 35 after one year’s service)
• Generous civil service pension schemes
• Parliamentary health and wellbeing service
• Discounts from well-known brands and retailers
• The opportunity to witness history in the making!

Things you need to know

Selection process details

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process, please contact HLRecruitment@parliament.uk.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.