Quality Assurance & Technical Specialist

The Money and Pensions Service

Apply before 11:55 pm on Thursday 21st November 2024

 

Details

Reference number

377908

Salary

£44,935 - £44,935
Circa

Job grade

Other

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MAPS - Operations

Type of role

Analytical
Finance

Working pattern

Flexible working

Number of jobs available

3

Contents

This is a fully remote role

Job summary

Quality Assurance & Technical Specialist

(Focus on Pension Wise service) 

c.£44,935 per annum

Homeworking

Permanent

 

This role offers 100% remote working so you can be based anywhere in the UK.

Both part time and full-time available (a minimum of 3 days a week)

 

As a Quality Assurance & Technical Specialist, your primary responsibility is to ensure that all pension guidance delivered meets established quality standards and is technically accurate. You’ll work closely with the Pensions Operations team, focusing on calls, webchat, and written enquiries to maintain high-quality service delivery. Additionally, you’ll collaborate with the Pensions Quality Assurance & Technical Manager and the Quality Assurance & Technical team.

Job description

As a Quality Assurance & Technical Specialist, you will be responsible:

Ensuring that all pension guidance delivered is technically accurate and that the customer experience standards are met.

The following are the main duties of the Quality Assurance & Technical Specialist role:

  • Ensuring that services are technically accurate and meet an agreed set of customer service standards.
  • Answer technical queries from our Pensions Guidance specialists about all and any aspects of pensions.
  • Anticipating upcoming topics by picking up on new developments across the pensions industry.
  • Update the technical accuracy of pensions guidance content and information products.
  • Attend meetings and workshops etc., within the scope of the role.
  • Contribute to the technical learning and development strategy and help to deliver the quality assurance plan, both of which deliver continuous improvement to the organisation.

 

Person specification

You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.

 

  • A deep and wide knowledge of pensions’ law and practice across a broad range of pension arrangements, occupational, personal, and state pension
  • An understanding and appreciation of wider retirement issues and non-pension assets, including state benefits.
  • Must be good at dealing with members of the public, translating complex ideas and topics clearly.
  • A commitment to on-going personal and professional development; we may require you to undertake training within the scope of the role.
  • A successful track record of producing clear, technical communications.
  • FPMI, APMI or CII qualifications or equivalent in related areas (Desirable).

At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves to our values: -

 

  • Caring
    We care about our colleagues and people whose lives we are here to transform.
  • Connecting
    We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
  • Transforming
    We are committed to transforming lives and make a positive societal impact.

 

About MaPS

At MaPS, we help people – particularly those most in need – to improve their financial wellbeing and build a better, more confident future. Working collaboratively across the UK, we make sure customers can access high-quality money and pensions guidance and debt advice throughout their lives, however and whenever they need it.

 

About our people 

We aim to attract and retain the absolute best talent, so we can achieve our objectives and continue to make a difference to millions of people’s lives.  We are keen to encourage applications from individuals across the whole community with the skills, knowledge, and behaviours for the job, and who show a strong commitment to MaPS’ objectives, values, and vision.  It is important to us that we continue our ambition to be a genuinely diverse and inclusive organisation, so that we reflect the people we are here to help.

Our inclusive working environment

By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds.

We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity and belonging.  We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”

By way of brief example, we have an enviable ethnic diversity mix, inter faith network, equal gender balance with a zero mean gender pay gap and thriving colleague and ally networks, including LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men's health, ethnicity, and diversity.

 

What Money and Pensions Service can offer you?

  • Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
  • Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
  • Subsidised eye test & flu jabs
  • Life assurance scheme
  • Give as you earn scheme.
  • Employee assistance programme (EAP)
  • PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
  • Enhanced family and sick pay
  • Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
  • Recognition Scheme
  • Discounts portal to numerous retailers

Selection process details

You will be joining our team of pension specialists providing the above services to the public between the times of
8.00am to 8.00pm Monday to Friday although the requirement on the Quality Assurance & Technical team is to work between 9.00am to 5.00pm.

As a flexible employer we are open to discuss what work patterns are mutually beneficial to meet our needs.

If you’re already a MaPS employee, and as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress, and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing recruitment@maps.org.uk

 

Job Reference:    MaPS00716

Close Date: 21st November 2024



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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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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.

Diversity and Inclusion

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Sabreena
  • Email : sabreena.chowdhury@reed.com

Recruitment team

  • Email : sabreena.chowdhury@reed.com

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