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Are you HR professional with experience in reward and pay?
Can you lead with enthusiasm, setting direction for you and your team to deliver key objectives?
Would you like to be part of a high profile area of HR and make a difference using your specialist expertise?
If so, then we would love for you to apply!
As one of the Department’s reward leads you will bring together the Department for Transport’s core teams, agencies and Arms Length Bodies (ALBs) to develop and deliver our reward strategy, policies, and other interventions to ensure that we can attract and retain the skills and capabilities needed to deliver organisational priorities.
You will also take the lead for senior pay in the Department. Coordinating the delivery of annual pay review and in year reward cycles, and providing expert advice on senior pay matters, guided by the published guidance for approval on senior pay (e.g. pay exception cases, pivotal role allowances).
Reward is high profile and exciting part of the HR function where you can play a critical role that affects all your colleagues, as well as impacting the public by enabling the Department. You will have plenty of autonomy to use your specialist expertise and you will be empowered to make a difference.
This role will have a particular focus on senior pay, as well as working with our agencies and ALBs on all reward matters across a variety of projects.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
Responsibilities
Include, but not limited to:
* Lead on the development, modelling, negotiation and implementation of annual pay award(s), providing support as needed to other pay interventions.
* Build and maintain partnering relationships with internal DfT colleagues (including the DfT shareholding and sponsorship teams, Senior Civil Servant employee experience and Finance), agency reward teams, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury stakeholders, and with ALBs.
* Support design and maintenance and renumeration elements of the Departments governance framework with our ALBs.
* Regularly provide expert reward advice and assurance to senior leaders and Minister(s), drawing on complex data and considering sensitive people matters.
* Advise and influence the adaptation and development of reward policies, ensure they reflect best practice and are compliant with the latest employment law developments.
* Develop and draw upon expert knowledge on reward data and insights.
* Lead bespoke projects on reward related matters within DfTc and across the group.
* Network across the Civil Service and public sector, ensuring that DfT remains close to x-government thinking and people strategy.
* Collaborate closely with key stakeholders at all levels across the DfT group to understand their needs and ensure these are reflected in reward solutions.
* Lead and build capability in the reward team, with line management responsibility for colleagues who deliver various reward policies, processes and projects.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.
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