Pay & Policy Compliance Lead
Permanent
Grade 6 - £50,788 - £62,801
Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
Working 36.5 hours per week
About us
We are at the heart of Birmingham City Council’s most essential asset – it’s People.
Playing a vital role in shaping the future of the city and ensuring that key services reach those who need them most. With a focus on aligning workforce needs with organisational goals, our team supports, engages, and motivates the workforce to deliver exceptional services to Birmingham's citizens.
Whether it’s managing accurate payroll, ensuring safe recruitment, fostering positive employee relations, or driving inclusive policies, every decision we make has a direct impact on both employees and the community.
We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, guided by our core principles of being helpful, open-minded, and delivering positive outcomes.
By working collaboratively across service areas, we provide expert guidance and support to colleagues, empowering them to focus on delivering vital front-line services. If you're passionate about making a difference, this role gives you the opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking, diverse, and vibrant city, creating lasting impact for both our employees and citizens.
About You
As Pay Compliance Lead, you will drive the Council’s approach to compliant, fair, and transparent pay and reward practices. This is a critical role ensuring all remuneration policies align with legal, regulatory, and strategic frameworks while embedding governance across pay structures, payroll operations, and reward systems. You’ll play a vital role in enabling informed, evidence-based decisions and shaping the Council’s approach to pay compliance in a complex and evolving environment.
Working closely with senior leaders, you will lead policy development, oversee audits, and mitigate risk across all aspects of pay and reward. You’ll provide expert guidance to stakeholders and ensure the Council’s strategies reflect equality, inclusion, and accountability. This is an exciting opportunity for a confident, analytical, and people-focused professional with deep HR, payroll, or reward experience to make a measurable impact on workforce fairness, compliance, and organisational integrity.
Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.
Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, andwe arecommitted to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.
We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.
Job Description and PersonSpecification
We strive to advertise all roles for a minimum of two weeks. However, due to high application volumes vacancies may close earlier than the stated deadline. We encourage you to submit your application without delay to ensure consideration.
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