Total Rewards Advisor at Plan International

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE

• The role will be a roving advisor and project manager to local countries, assisting Country Office Human Resources/People & Culture departments in evaluations and salary and benefits design and management.
• The role holder will be expected to lead small teams in country or to work alone on implementing the Total Reward project in countries. Assistance and support is provided by Country Office HR/P&C and by the Global Reward Team.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Project Management

• Work with the Country Directors, Global Reward and HR Teams to agree on country specific timelines
• Design country project plans for job mapping and job evaluation, design of salary scales and benefits design
• Design implementation plans and communications with local HR teams
• Provide regular updates of the assignment to the team through reports.

Job Evaluation and Salaries (Phase 1)

• To facilitate and support the local People & Culture teams in WACA, MEESA and APAC to develop local capacity in Hay methodology
• Decide how decisions about the evaluation will be made
• Scope the evaluation and manage development of the evaluation work plan including logistics
• Contribute to evaluation guidelines to supplement Hay methodology, to take account of complexity, size of operation in country and align jobs to enable quality evaluations accordingly;
• Draft and update role descriptions in line with Plan standards and templates;
• Evaluate roles in all countries according to Hay methodology and additional guidelines;
• Construction of salary scales in all countries, using salary data from Birches and local salary survey providers;
• Contribute current Plan salary data to Birches and to other salary survey providers;
• Analysis of current salaries vs market data and new salary scales;
• Recommendations for salary adjustments to bring local salaries into line with salary scales and within budget guidelines;
• Communication of progress to staff, senior managers and regional leadership teams;
• Provide quality control/validation of the job evaluations undertaken to ensure consistency of evaluations across and within regions.
• Benefits and Wellbeing (Phase 2)
• Assist with implementation of global benefits standards;
• Assist Global Reward Team with implementation of worldwide Employee Assistance Programme(s);
• Design new, and modify existing, employee benefit plans to meet Plan International global standards;
• Implement appropriate employee benefit plans in country;
• Negotiate fair terms with external benefit providers;
• Communicate with and educate staff on benefits.
• Contract and Employment Conditions (Phase 3)
• Assist the Global Reward Team with design and standardisation of appropriate contracts for national staff, international staff, short term and long term secondees and other employment types.

General

• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility.
• This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Internal

• Regional HRBPs and Country Directors, Finance
• Global Reward Team
• Country HR Teams
• Business Unit Managers and Directors

External

• Salary survey providers
• Korn Ferry Ltd (Hay methodology)
• Benefit providers and consultants
• Government departments, eg Tax authorities

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• In-depth demonstrable experience in job evaluation using the Hay methodology;
• Extensive experience in benchmarking products and services across Talent & Rewards;
• Knowledge and appreciation of reward practices ideally across multiple georgraphies
• Experience in the design, implementation and communication of salary structures, employee benefits and related issues;
• Excellent negotiation, representation skills and the ability to work comfortably with diverse staff in challenging contexts
• Fluency in English, written and spoken;
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel.

Desirable

• Experience in implementing job evaluation outcomes in non-profits;
• Knowledge of legal practices and application of tax rules related to reward structuring;
• Knowledge of French language, written and spoken.