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HR / OD
Ref: 000425
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £53,869 - £57,070 per annum (SM3)
Hours: 36.66 per week
Location: Spindles, George Street, Oldham, OL1 1HD
Closing Date: Tuesday 31st December 2024
Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC.
Role Overview:
To manage the recruitment, on-boarding, payroll, pensions and HR systems teams to deliver a customer focused employment contact centre to Council staff, managers, members and customer organisations
Key Responsibilities:
* To lead the development of an HR Employment Contact Centre for staff, managers, members and customer organisations ensuring high performance and customer focused processes for recruitment, on-boarding, payroll, pensions and transactional systems
* Lead responsibility for effective contract management including payroll/HR system and agency contracts
* Lead on developing paid HR employment services to customer organisations, ensuring SLAs are responsive to demand and customer needs, ensuring effective use of resources
* To lead innovative ways of working, technology and transformation that support improved performance and quality of service
* Responsible for accurate accounting and control requirements in line with statutory, audit and management conditions, including management and reconciliation of agreed payroll budgets
Key Requirements:
* Experience of leading and co-ordinating a team of payroll and pension teams in a complex, public sector organisation
* Experience of leading payroll/HR system contract management
* Experience of service improvement in a payroll and pension shared management service
* Evidence of successful resource and financial management, including meeting customer demand and challenging deadlines
* Demonstrable track record of driving significant performance and quality improvement and delivering efficiency and benefits
Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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NB. - Any candidate that meets the criteria of our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme and meets the essential criteria of the role, will be guaranteed the first stage of assessment (whether that is an interview or another assessment, as appropriate).
Our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme supports candidates with disabilities, carers, those who are aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, and those whose last long term substantive employer was the Armed Forces.
Diversity and Inclusion:
At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.
About Us:
Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough. Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.
The Council has a clear set of Behaviours, which outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses. Internally we have translated these into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view these Behaviours, along with staff benefits on our Greater.Jobs pages Working for Oldham
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