What's involved with this role: Interim Senior Reward Officer – Human Resources Ref: Bournemouth 5258032 Pay Rate: £20.85 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months City: Bournemouth, Dorset Hybrid working Candidates must be able to travel, using public or other forms of transport where they are viable, or by holding a valid UK driving licence with access to own or pool car. Support the Reward Lead in coordinating, coaching and overseeing the project team. Enabling the team to be proactive and provide consistent advice across services. Support the delivery of a complex, large-scale and contentious project. Key Responsibilities: Proactively manage and take decisions in relation to salary supplements in line with the agreed policies and procedures. Work in collaboration with the Senior HR Adviser to supervise Project Officers and Business Support colleagues, to provide a high performing Reward team, providing insight, advice, and solutions around all areas of the project. Support the Reward Lead in coordinating and implementing the development of People and Culture policies within the Reward team. Lead and drive the implementation of a colleague benefits package and recognition platform. Monitor trends in pay and reward across the public and private sector, considering salary benchmarking across the region, monitoring how other councils are approaching ‘hard to fill or retain’ roles, making recommendations to influence decision making. Facilitate colleague information sessions, roadshows, spotlights or other events. Lead and facilitate analysis and reporting, including equalities, diversity and inclusion data to understand and influence business as usual approaches, and decision making across the area of responsibility. Support the design of a package to coach, train and develop managers and enable them to support the implementation of the new reward strategy. Qualifications: Relevant degree or equivalent experience. Advanced relevant professional qualification with clearly evidenced continuous professional development demonstrating an understanding of best practice and a broader commercial awareness. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Experience in supervising and coaching a team. Experience in Local Government and unionised environment. Experience of maintaining positive relations, providing complex advice and support to strategic stakeholders. Strong communication and influencing skills. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please