Senior Reward Manager (SEO)
Ministry of Defence
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 20th November 2024
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Job summary
This role plays a crucial role in developing pay strategies and implementing initiatives that will support Defence to meet its strategic objectives through attracting, motivating and retaining talented individuals. You will be joining us at a critical time as we modernise, simplify and automate the reward landscape.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
In this role, you will:
- Provide an overview and implementation of the annual delegated pay review by undertaking TU negotiations and managing other stakeholders who are crucial to the delivery of the award.
- Provision of expert advice on the overall pay framework in Defence and annual pay reviews, using a broad evidence-based to design and implement changes to Defence pay arrangements.
- Working alongside the Reward Team on varied of projects which will simplify the reward environment and resolve some of the longer-term projects, including understanding the evidence base and translating it into policy development.
- Work with a range of stakeholders not limited to senior stakeholders up to Director General, senior business stakeholders, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, the Armed Forces Remuneration Team, and Defence’s Arm’s Length Bodies.
This is an exciting opportunity to join as we are embarking on improvements to our wider offer, and to how we work. There are opportunities to bring innovative ideas to shape the future of Civilian pay and reward in Defence. The successful applicant will have a significant degree of autonomy to deliver.
Person specification
We are looking for an experienced senior HR professional who holds CIPD level 7 or committed to working towards this.
Applicants must have a strong working knowledge of pay and reward practices, and ideally an understanding of how pay works in the Civil Service. Applicants need to be able to develop, model and implement pay and reward strategies, and therefore a strong ability to use data insights to find solutions to complex problems is essential.
This role will work with some of the more senior leaders in the organisation on complex issues, so applicants will need strong communication and influencing skills, and an ability to explain complex issues succinctly both verbally and in written advice.
The Reward Team is friendly and we work together to achieve our aims. The successful candidate needs to be a team player, and be willing to be flexible to support the highest priorities for the team at any time.
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
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 28.97%
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD 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/.
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Selection process details
You will be required to provide a CV and personal statement, which should address the behaviours and person specification. If you are successful at the sift stage, you will be invited to an interview to demonstrate your experience and how your experience relates to the behaviours for this role.
When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.
At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours/Experience:
- CV (to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience)
- Personal Statement (1250 words)
At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Richard Maddock, Assistant Head of Reward
- Email : richard.maddock105@mod.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : DBSCivPers-ResourcingTeam3@mod.gov.uk
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