Leicester City Council
Pay and Grading Advisor
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Reference: REQ7820
Description: Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Join us to play a key role in providing advice and guidance on pay and grading across a diverse range of services both centrally and in schools.
About The Role
Our small yet friendly team of Pay and Grading Advisors evaluate roles, benchmark salaries, and design fair pay structures to ensure internal equity, legal compliance and talent retention. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high-quality, professional pay and grading advice to support our managers across the organisation.
- You’ll undertake job evaluations for new posts, amended roles and in support of organisational change processes.
- Furthermore, you’ll advise on market pay, honoraria and pay related queries.
- You’ll be pivotal in the development, review and implementation of pay related policies and procedures which, with Local Government Reorganisation on the horizon will be an exciting and dynamic challenge!
Liaising with managers at all levels including Directors, you’ll provide comprehensive advice on aspects of pay, grading, and job evaluation including Chief Officer, Teacher, Soulbury, Further Education and Youth and Community roles. You’ll be a part of and work closely with a substantial team of HR professionals from different disciplines including HR Operations, Organisational Development, Health & Safety, Resourcing and Management Information.
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The team works on a hybrid basis with the expectation that you work from any Council office for two days per week. This is a career graded post LG Band 7 – LG Band 8. Appointment to a level will depend on the outcome of the selection process and experience of the successful candidate. Dependent on availability of work/vacancy at a higher level, progress will be by satisfactory performance, agreed at annual Appraisals and through on-going supervision.
About You
With a sound understanding of the principles of job evaluation, you’ll have experience of evaluating posts, reviewing HR or pay related policies and of advising on pay and grading matters. You’ll have a keen eye for detail, to ensure evaluations are completed with accuracy and consistency. Using strong communication and interview skills, you’ll be able to effectively elicit information, appropriately challenge managers and present training sessions to a wide range of audiences. Confident, with a tenacity to provide excellent customer service, you’ll be enthusiastic and passionate about working with a scheme which is fit for purpose, flexible and compliant with legal standards.
Although we use the Greater London Provincial Council job evaluation scheme, we are happy to consider applications from candidates with experience of working with other schemes.
What We Can Offer You
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
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We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Nicola Graham on 0116 4544334
Assessment/interviews will take place on Friday 4th September 2026
Region: Central
Location: City Hall
Salary: GBP35,412 - GBP41,771 per year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement) GBP56,957
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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