Job Evaluation Coordinator

Blackburn with Darwen Council; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackburn with Darwen Council seeks an experienced Job Evaluation Co-ordinator to support fair and consistent pay and grading across the Council and schools. You will advise managers on job descriptions, person specifications and evaluation processes, ensuring alignment with organisational design principles and JE schemes.

You will lead evaluation activity, maintain records, support appeals, and work with HR, OD colleagues and Trade Unions to promote transparency, equality and good governance.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with managers and stakeholders in a governance-led environment.
• Knowledge of job evaluation principles and processes.
• Ability to influence and challenge professionally in policy and design.
• Accreditation as a recognised job evaluation scheme evaluator (Hay and/or NJC).

Responsibilities

• Lead initial conversations with managers to discuss service and role requirements.
• Support managers to produce accurate job descriptions and person specifications.
• Ensure consistent consideration of team structures and accountability differentials.
• Lead and oversee job evaluation activity for new, revised and existing posts.
• Apply relevant job evaluation schemes, including Gauge and Hay.
• Identify and escalate any issues with potential equal pay implications.
• Undertake quality assurance, auditing and benchmarking of job evaluations.
• Maintain records, evaluation rationales and standard documentation.
• Support job evaluation appeals and participate in governance processes.
• Collaborate with managers, HR&OD colleagues and Trade Union representatives.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Inter-personal skills

Analytical skills

Report writing

Education

NJC and Hay evaluation schemes knowledge

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Terms & Conditions: Full time, 12 month Fixed Term, 37 hours per week

Department: Chief Executives

Interview Date(s): 5th/6th November

Should this role become permanent, it may not be readvertised.

We are looking for an experienced and confident Job Evaluation Co Ordinator to play a key role in supporting fair, transparent and consistent pay and grading arrangements across the Council and schools. This is an important opportunity to contribute to robust job evaluation practice, organisational design, equal pay risk management and the continued development of a modern and equitable reward framework.

Working as part of the HR & OD service , you will provide professional advice and guidance to managers and senior leaders, ensuring job descriptions and person specifications are clear, accurate and appropriately capture role requirements in line with the organisations agreed Organisational Design principals and are subsequently robustly evaluated in line with the appropriate JE schemes. You will have strong organisational, communication and inter-personal skills and feel comfortable both challenging and advising managers at all levels to ensure the effective application of agreed workforce principals. You will also support quality assurance, maintain evaluation records and contribute to the Council’s wider approach to consistency, fairness, objectivity, equality and good governance.

Key responsibilities

• Lead initial conversation with managers to discuss service requirements, role requirements and consider organisational design principles that support workforce planning and career pathways.
• Support managers to produce clear, accurate and appropriate job descriptions, person specifications and supporting documentation.
• Ensure managers consider all roles in the team structure for consistency can clear differentials of responsibilities and accountabilities
• Lead and oversee job evaluation activity for new, revised and existing posts across the Council.
• Apply and support the use of relevant job evaluation schemes, including Gauge and Hay, ensuring process requirements are followed consistently.
• Identify and escalation any issues that could have equal pay issues.
• Undertake quality assurance, auditing and benchmarking to maintain a robust and up-to-date rank order of jobs.
• Maintain comprehensive records, evaluation rationales and standardised documentation to support transparency and compliance.
• Support job evaluation appeals processes and contribute to the review of local conventions and procedures.
• Work collaboratively with managers, senior leaders, HR & OD colleagues and Trade Union representatives.

About you

You will have a good understanding of job evaluation and of quality assuring or auditing evaluations to ensure fairness, consistency and compliance. You will be comfortable working with managers and stakeholders on complex issues, using your judgement to influence, challenge and advise professionally.

You will bring strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail and the ability to interpret information relating to pay, equality and workforce structures. You will also be able to produce clear reports, evaluation rationales, briefing papers and procedure documents, while handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion.

• Experience of working collaboratively with managers, Trade Unions and other stakeholders.
• Experience of maintaining accurate records and supporting documentation in a governance-led environment.
• Ability to influence and challenge managers professionally in relation to policy, process, organisational design principles and best practice.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear reports and evaluation documentation.
• Ability to interview managers and extract relevant information to develop coherent job descriptions and person specifications.
• Knowledge and understanding of job evaluation principles and processes.
• Knowledge of organisational change, restructures and job redesign.
• Experience of NJC and Hay evaluation schemes.
• Experience of preparing and presenting reports or recommendations to senior leaders, panels or governance groups.
• Understanding of Council structures, service areas and comparable roles across the organisation.
• Accreditation as a recognised job evaluation scheme evaluator, including Hay and/or NJC.

Our values

Our values guide the way we work: Trust, Respect, Ambition, Collaboration and Kindness. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate these values in their approach to colleagues, managers, stakeholders and the communities we serve.