People Service Senior Adviser - Pay and Reward

About the Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission is the UK’s independent body overseeing elections and regulating political finance. Everything we do is about ensuring trust, participation, and integrity in the democratic process.

As we continue to deliver our five-year Corporate Plan, the Commission is building on a period of growth and change, expanding our workforce and modernising how we deliver our services to better support the needs of a changing democracy. As our organisation develops and adapts to meet future challenges, this post will play a vital part in supporting that progress and helping ensure we remain responsive to the democratic needs of voters, campaigners, parties and electoral administrators across the UK.

We believe people do their best work when they have the flexibility, support and recognition they need to thrive. That's why we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements that help colleagues balance work and personal commitments, supported by a flexi-time scheme that gives greater autonomy over the working day. With generous leave allowances, a highly competitive Civil Service pension and performance-related pay, our benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing, reward your contribution and provide security for the future.

About the role

This is an opportunity to build your career in pay and reward in a role where your analysis, judgement and advice will directly influence the experience of colleagues across the Electoral Commission.

Working across People Services, you will deliver a varied portfolio covering pay reviews, promotions, retention cases, payroll assurance, statutory and contractual pay, job evaluation, benchmarking and reward. Alongside this, you will provide advice and support on contractual changes and more complex employee queries, including pensions and retirement.

You will work with colleagues and senior stakeholders to turn complex pay information into clear, practical advice and support fair, consistent and evidence-based decisions.

No two periods of the year will look exactly the same. You could be analysing pay data and identifying an issue, reviewing payroll outputs, advising on a complex pay case or contributing evidence to future reward and benefits decisions.

you will:

• deliver annual and ad hoc pay activity, providing professional advice and constructive challenge to support fair and consistent decisions
• review and validate payroll outputs, investigating discrepancies and coordinating their resolution
• calculate and advise on statutory and contractual pay entitlements, including family-related and sickness pay
• analyse pay and reward data, undertake benchmarking, job evaluation and reporting, and translate findings into clear recommendations
• contribute to the development of our reward and benefits approach by analysing uptake, cost, value and market information
• provide technical guidance and coaching to colleagues, sharing your knowledge and helping build capability across People Services
• identify practical improvements to our processes, guidance and controls, helping make our services simpler, more accurate and effective.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. To help reduce unconscious bias and ensure all applicants are assessed solely on their skills, knowledge and experience, we use an anonymous recruitment process.

When applying, please provide an anonymised CVwhich omits your protected characteristics and any personally identifiable information:

Do not include:

• Your name, address, phone number, email or other contact details
• Your date of birth or age
• Gender, ethnicity, nationality or other personal identifiers
• A photo of yourself
• Remove educational dates as these are a clear indication of your age
• There is no requirement to include your primary education details.

Do include:

• Your employment history including employers and dates of employment
• Explanation for gaps in your history
• Your duties, responsibilities and achievements

If your CV contains personal details (such as your name or contact information), we will be unable to consider your application. Please double-check your documents before submitting, including the file name you use to save and upload your CV.

Supporting disabled applicants

The Electoral Commission is proud to be a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. As part of this commitment, we aim to prioritise interviews for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description.

There may, however, be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. For example, during periods of exceptionally high application volumes or seasonal recruitment activity, the Commission may need to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.

If you have a disability and would like to be considered under this commitment, please indicate this when you apply. We also welcome requests for reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process or within the workplace.

Key dates

• Application deadline: 19thOctober 2026 (23:59)
• Interviews: Week commencing 26thOctober 2026 (TBC)
• Anticipated start date: 7thDecember 2026

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.