Location
Shipley, West Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Could you be Incommunities new Rewards Specialist? This is an exciting time to join Incommunities and play a key role in the delivery and implementation of a new organisation wide pay, grading / job evaluation framework. We are looking for someone with experience of delivering frameworks in a similar size / complex organisations and we are open to discussing this vacancy on either a permanent or long term contract basis.
About us
We are social housing landlord and think our vision of Improving Lives Incommunities says it all!
Working to provide great homes in great neighbourhoods, we manage more than 22,600 homes across Yorkshire and are proud to collaborate with our customers, communities, local and national stakeholders to achieve this.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our plans and actions. This year will see us continue to focus on our 2 -year plan, to 2024. Our plan puts customers at the heart of what we do, providing great places to live and work, with homes that they are proud to live in.
Responsibilities
- Support the People Team to deliver and implement a new organisation-wide pay, grading/job evaluation framework that provides auditable, transparent, and equitable pay decisions
- Ensure any new and anticipated employment legislation, government policy changes and other significant developments affecting pay and reward (eg pay gap legislation, changes to national living wage) are identified and acted upon in relation to the activities being delivered
- Play a lead role in pay review cycles with benchmarking and salary data and necessary engagement and communications with relevant stakeholders, including recognised trade unions
- Support the implementation of the terms and conditions review particularly with reference to pay and reward
- Play a role in planning and contributing to the external and internal research, review and development of new and existing reward-related policies
- Develop, manage and maintain the organisations total reward package and policies including expert advice to all stakeholders
- Support the development of role profiles, to align with the new grading framework and terms and conditions review
- Assist with the processing of any equal pay or grading complaints/appeals
- Organise and provide communications and briefing/training sessions to People Team colleagues, managers and employees on the new system and pay policies and reward-based communications
- Support the maintenance of good governance by maintaining any pay related and/or terms and data/registers such as benchmarking, market supplement, honoraria
- Provide governance, processes and audits of our pay, gradings, processes and policies to ensuring fairness and equity across the organisation
Requirements
- CIPD qualification or equivalent demonstratable recent and relevant understanding of HR and reward
- Excellent knowledge of job evaluation approaches and implementing new pay and reward strategies
- Knowledge of Human Resources/Organisational Development functions in relation to carrying out research and working on projects supporting HR and OD service delivery
- Project management experience
- Ability to scrutinise and analyse data and write thorough reports to a high standard
- Experience of managing complex change projects
- Experience of communicating changes to all levels of colleagues with
- High level of motivation and drive to successfully deliver key projects
- Strong knowledge of reward best practice and understanding
- General understanding of analytical job evaluation schemes and their underpinning, and application to pay and grading systems
Benefits
- Salary up to £45,296 per year (Figure as of April 2024)
- West Yorkshire Pension Fund membership - Current employer contribution is 15.9%
- 28 days annual leave that increases with service plus bank holidays
- Option to buy and sell annual leave
- Training, development, and qualification opportunities
- Our Hub: our wellbeing and benefits site, with exclusive access to discounts and savings (at over 800 retailers)
- Corporate health scheme membership
- Agile and hybrid working
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Local gym membership discounts.
- A team of trained Mental Health First Aiders who are available for colleagues to contact for support
We are an equal opportunity employer but beyond characteristics protected by law, we welcome and value applicants from diverse backgrounds, abilities and perspectives. Incommunities is also recognised as ‘Committed’ to being Menopause Friendly. The Menopause Friendly Accreditation recognises inclusive employers that build awareness and understanding of how menopause can have an effect at work and shows we take the wellbeing of our colleagues seriously.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
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Salary
£45.3k per annum
