Head of Reward & Recognition

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About Us

The Human Resources directorate is proud to work with the King's community to provide academic and professional excellence and an outstanding educational experience for our students.

We offer support and advice to all our colleagues at all stages of their employment with King's - beginning with your recruitment and arrival at the university and continuing throughout your time with us. We seek to treat colleagues fairly where everyone has the opportunity to flourish at King's. Our Organisational Development team offers a wide range of courses and activities to support your personal and professional development.

HR is also responsible for a framework of policies and procedures, ensuring King's complies with the law and other regulations governing its operations.

About the Role

The Head of Reward and Recognition is a new senior role as King's increases investment in ensuring we are offering highly competitive employment terms and developing our Thriving Staff Community. Reward is part of HR and we seek to offer an excellent and expert colleague experience within HR and across King's.

Reward, including management of benefits and recognition, is handled by a small team (Director, Head of Service, and Analyst) so this is a role with real opportunity to make a difference - it's strategic, tactical and operational simultaneously.

The primary focus of this role is to ensure subject matter advice and expertise is available and provided to colleagues in HR as well as faculties and directorates. You will work closely with the Director of Reward and People Technology and other colleagues to ensure we develop and maintain competitive and equitable reward strategies aligned with organizational goals and sector benchmarks.

The role includes key reward reporting, analysis and processes through the annual cycle and identifying opportunities to improve the breadth and the depth of the reward offering and support and leadership provided. King's is over 12,000 people who are based mainly in the UK.

This is an indefinite full time role (35 Hours per week) although we would welcome applications from individuals seeking part time at 0.75 or more FTE.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Excellent ability to communicate specialist and technical Reward issues to HR colleagues and line managers.
2. Deep technical understanding of Reward at a principle and practical level.
3. Direct and extensive experience of managing Reward in a diverse organisation with multiple employee groups.
4. Excel skills and ability to manipulate data and prepare analysis.
5. Experience and detailed knowledge of role grading, ideally using HERA and/or Hay principles.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of culture in an education, public sector or third sector environment.
2. Direct experience of UK pay gap reporting and analysis.
3. Knowledge of UK taxation and the impact on value.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our 'How we Recruit' pages.

Interviews are due to be held weeks commencing 15th July

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.