Salary: £38,216 - £45,219 Pension: 28.97% - Alongside your salary, Student Loans Company contributes £11,071 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Location: Glasgow/Darlington/Llandudno Closing Date: 05/01/2024 Is it time you unlocked your potential? Student Loans Company is a non-profit making Government-owned organisation to provide loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK. Since 1989, we have enabled our customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services. We now have an exciting opportunity for a Reward Specialist to join our People Directorate. The Reward Specialist is responsible for supporting the delivery of SLC’s total reward strategy. This includes job evaluation, statutory reporting, project management, and continuous improvement. Reporting to the Senior Reward Consultant, the role supports our people strategy by ensuring fair, consistent, and transparent reward practices that align with organisational goals. The Reward Specialist is an experienced HR professional, with a broad range of HR knowledge and experience. The successful candidate will have a strong reward specialism, well developed stakeholder management experience and excellent analytical skills SLC offer a blended working model which will typically be 2 days in the office and 3 days from home. What you bring: Knowledge of current legislation and regulations impacting on reward practices and the ability to provide advice and guidance on best practice. Ability to lead, manage and deliver on multiple tasks and deadlines utilising a range of direct and indirect resources Ability to manage complex issues and quickly evaluate a situation, including risk assessment and propose a course of action Extensive experience in a progressive People / HR Department in similar role, including providing advice to managers/employees on a wide range of people issues to a complex level. CIPD Qualified or relevant comparable experience Experience of working across and managing multiple projects alongside BAU activities. Experience of working with and handling highly sensitive and personal data, in particular in adherence to GDPR. Experience of delivering and reviewing a total rewards package. Experience of job evaluation and benchmarking. You can expect more from a career with SLC. We support colleagues to unlock their potential through our Career Pathways development programme and offer an excellent benefit and rewards package that includes : 28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays Option to buy/sell annual leave Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme SLC are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments for those who consider themselves to have a disability or long-term condition in line with the Equality Act 2010. Our application process provides candidates with the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments but if you would like to discuss this in more detail, please email ask_recruitmentslc.co.uk.