Strategic Business Partner

• Location: Workplace offer: Hybrid working, Barnardo's hub/office or home address
• Salary: £53,311 - £62,995 per annum

At Barnardo's, we're committed to creating a place where everyone can grow, thrive and belong.

We're looking for an experienced Strategic People Business Partner (Pay and Reward) to help shape and deliver our pay and reward approach, ensuring it reflects our values, supports our people ambitions and enables colleagues to be their best.

This is an exciting opportunity for a reward specialist who enjoys combining strategy, insight and practical delivery to create fair, progressive and evidence-based reward solutions across a large and diverse workforce.

What you'll be doing

Working closely with the Head of People - Pay & Reward, you will:

• Support the development and delivery of Barnardo's pay philosophy and reward strategy.
• Review and improve job families, pay structures, to improve transparency and consistency and align with workforce and organisational design developments.
• Conduct benchmarking and labour market analysis, translating data into practical recommendations.
• Develop recommendations for a more transparent job family framework that supports talent growth and future career opportunities
• Explore how skills development, career progression and reward can work together to support colleague growth to better recognise contribution, capability growth and values-led behaviours by develop proposals for recognition and contribution-based reward approaches.
• Review and enhance our total reward offer, including benefits and recognition programmes, improving colleague understanding and engagement with reward, helping to strengthen attraction, retention and belonging.
• Provide expert advice on complex reward issues, pay decisions and governance matters
• Deliver high-quality reward reporting, pay equity analysis and market insight to support strategic decision-making, alongside expert advice on complex reward issues, pay decisions and governance matters

Why this role matters

Reward plays a key role in creating a culture where colleagues feel valued, recognised and able to be their best, enabling them to deliver the greatest possible impact for children and young people.

You'll help ensure our reward approach:

• Supports career development and progression
• Recognises contribution, capability and values-led behaviours
• Strengthens fairness, inclusion and belonging
• Creates meaningful reward experiences
• Enables data-informed decisions about our workforce and future talent and early career pathways

About you

We're looking for someone who brings:

• Significant experience in pay and reward, job evaluation and benchmarking
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn data into insights and recommendations
• Experience designing or improving pay frameworks and reward approaches
• Knowledge of pay governance, pay equity and reward best practice
• Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and presenting recommendations
• A collaborative style and a passion for creating fair and inclusive workplaces

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

Pay & Reward Framework

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to 24/7 employee assistance program for advice and support