Reward & Policy Advisor

Reward and Policy Advisor

12-month Fixed Term Contract

Full Time 35 Hours

Monday to Friday flexible

Salary
- £ 32,367-£36,072

Based
- Liverpool, United Kingdom

Want to make a real difference to the lives of people? For over 90 years, The Riverside Group has been providing affordable housing across the UK to people as well as care for the elderly and support for those who face homelessness.

**The difference you’ll make**

We have an opportunity for a policy and reward specialist to join our Reward and Policy team on a 12-month contract. The role provides support across our team.
- Policy reviews from initial research to implementation
- Drafting communications, guidance and FAQs across a range of stakeholders

**So, who are you?**

**You will be part of a team of 4, with specialist people skills in employment matters, policy, reward, benefits and equality. All team members work collaboratively across projects, with colleagues in other areas of People Services and with managers across the organisation, liaising with external organisations when needed **.
**At the end of this paragraph, we put this below statement only for C&S roles.**

**You will be required to work flexible hours to meet customer and business needs, which may not include normal office hours and may include Lone Working**

**Enjoy the rewards
Working with us, you’ll enjoy competitive pay, 28 days holidays excluding 8 bank holidays, a wide range of benefits, flexible working and the chance to learn valuable new skills. We empower our people to do great work by investing in learning, personal development and technology.

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If you’re the kind of person that wants to do a really great job and make a difference to our customers, we think you’ll love it here. Sound like a challenge you’d like to take on? Then get in touch and let’s talk about how you can help us transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.
- We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. _

Job Purpose.
- **Contributing as a project team member to the wider People Services priorities and projects, the role will oversee the day to day running of relevant project streams, taking responsibility for coordinating project outputs and undertaking key actions within the project.**:

- Policy review from initial research to implementation
- Drafting communications, guidance, and FAQs across a range of stakeholders
- Day to day reward advice and support including role pricing and benchmarking.

**Role requires you to**:

- Support the planning and delivery of People Services projects and change programmers, leading specific workstreams or key tasks as determined by the Team
- Monitor each project against the agreed delivery plans, ensuring that all required progress reports are produced in a timely manner and are appropriate for the required audience and produce required documents to support the project such as business cases, project plans, communication plan, risk logs, decision logs, using departmental project management templates
- Undertake project tasks as required within each of the projects including but not limited to managing large, complex information sets, preparing guidance and FAQs to support project launch and managing the project inbox to ensure queries are dealt with or escalated in a timely manner
- Develop and support project and policy communication activities ensuring that all those involved in the project have access to up-to-date information
- Undertake external research, collecting, evaluating, and interpreting and providing summary reports and advice

**Policy Development**:

- Research and draft updates to People Services Policies, manager/colleague guidance and employee handbooks to ensure they reflect Our Riverside Way values, meet legislative requirements, and consider best practice approaches
- Work in partnership with trade unions and staff groups for consultation as required

**Reward and Benefits Advice and Support**:

- Responsible for ad hoc job pricing and benchmarking roles (training can be provided)
- To assist with the day-to-day management of other Reward activities within People Services, for example supporting our cyclical activities such as pay review, Real Living Wage review and implementation, 3 rd party benefit renewals
- Research and consider our wider approach to benefits, researching best practice and putting together proposal
- Work with the wider People Services team to put robust systems in place to manage specific initiatives, such as grey fleet license checking, setting up salary sacrifice schemes

**Other Information**
- Ensuring our internal intranet is regularly reviewed and updated with latest changes in policy, rewards, and benefits
- Supporting the delivery of the team’s cyclical events calendar
- Assisting the team with drafting communications for the Riverside weekly colleague newsletter

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