HR Pay and Reward Advisor

What will you be doing?

You will influence the development of the Council’s approach to pay and reward, working in collaboration with colleagues to make recommendations to improve and innovate our pay and reward offer. This will include developing ways to link our pay and reward strategy more closely with organisation design, creating clear pathways for progression and development within the organisation. Reporting to the Workforce Policy and Reward Manager, you will be responsible for the oversight and delivery of outcomes critical to the annual pay cycle, including pay awards and the payment of incremental pay rises to ensure that these processes are delivered accurately and to time. 

You will identify ways for continuous improvement and ensure our pay and reward initiatives are transparent, inclusive and fair, while delivering on our organisational needs and outcomes.  

About you

You will be an experienced HR professional, with understanding and experience of pay and reward approaches, HR policies and systems, and sound knowledge of employment legislation, with the ability to understand and interpret its implications for us, as a large employer.   

You will have demonstrable project management experience and be confident to take the lead on projects, collaborating with others and building strong working relationships, to deliver required outcomes to agreed timescales. 

This role involves working with large data sets and therefore you will have the digital skills to present, analyse and manipulate data and information for different target audiences.  

You will value diversity, treat others with respect, and take responsibility for your own actions.  

In return, you will be offered a supportive and flexible work environment, where you will develop and thrive at work.  

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers