Reward Manager

Job Title: Reward Manager

Location: Chelmsford

Salary: £44,263 - £54,395 per year.

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent.

Closing Date: Sunday 12th May 2024.

About ARU:

ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

ARU's research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK's Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK's leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.

The Role:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced HR Reward Manager to join our dynamic team. This is a newly formed key role in HR Services to deliver on our new transformative approach to talent acquisition and retention. This is an exciting time to join, as our friendly, collaborative, and focused HR Team move into the new era of our 'One HR' approach. Taking a lead role in identifying, advising, and planning all aspects of our total reward package offering. As an expert in reward and recognition you will demonstrate a knowledgeable and pragmatic approach to guiding and advising managers. Working closely with colleagues, you will play an active role in the HR Team. You will be responsible for (but not limited to) the following:

Monitoring salary structure and benefits
Development of competitive reward and recognition initiatives, ensuring all benefit packages are legally compliant
Operationally manage ARU's annual recognition and reward process, including the annual Academic Promotion round
Conduct external benchmarking to ensure ARU remain competitive, attracting the best available candidates within a competitive recruitment market
Working closely with the ED&I team, contributing to action planning for ARU's gender pay gap exercises
Undertaking reviews and proposing changes where appropriate, ensuring the process is fair and inclusive following ARU's strategic prioritiesRecruitment is key to our growth as a university. You will be market aware of new reward and recognition schemes, staying current, relevant, and up to date with new approaches. Creating guidelines and available content to inform managers when making decisions, and building trusted and respected relationships with colleagues, using effective communication, you will ensure managers and their wider teams understand the benefits of working at ARU and relevance of these.

Benefits:

We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff to share this commitment.

We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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