Total Reward Business Partner – British Council Kenya

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.

We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.

British Council – Pay Band 8

Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Contract Type: Indefinite
Application Deadline: 13th August 2024, 23:59 UK Time
Interviews: Week commencing 26th August or 2nd September

Applicants must have the legal right to work in Kenya. No relocation or sponsorship support is available.

Salary and Benefits

Starting Salary: 753,547 KES per month (gross)

Additional Benefits:

Enjoy 25 days of annual leave, excluding public holidays, and comprehensive medical insurance that covers your spouse and up to four biological or legally adopted children under 18 years. The insurance includes outpatient coverage of KES 250K, inpatient coverage of KES 2M, and dental and optical coverage of KES 40K each. An annual general check-up of KES 30K is also included, with detailed coverage information available upon request. You’ll receive terminal gratuity equivalent to one month’s salary for every year served. Benefit from dedicated learning and development opportunities to achieve your individual development goals.

Flexible working options are available, including home working and flexible hours. The working hours are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm from Monday to Thursday, and 8:00 am to 1:00 pm on Fridays. Additionally, enjoy preferential rates at the British High Commission gym, bar, and pool. All other in-country benefits remain applicable.

Role Purpose:

Join the global Total Reward ‘centre of expertise’ team as one of four regional business partners. Contribute to the development of global reward strategies and lead their local implementation in the Sub-Saharan and Africa, and Middle East and North Africa regions. Support regions/business units in attracting, recruiting, retaining, and motivating talent by operationalizing reward processes like pay reviews, bonus schemes, benefits programs, and job evaluation.

Role Context:

• The global Total Reward team are a ‘centre of expertise’ team within the People function with responsibility for developing and adapting Total Reward Strategy and ‘Principles’ and quickly developing solutions to Total Reward issues as they arise.
• This role will partner with regional leadership teams and the business units that sit within them on reward matters – this will range from large country operations where we have significant commercial operations to smaller countries where we only have a small number of colleagues.
• The role-holder will need to engage with regional leadership teams and will have a strong matrix management line to Heads of People Services and Solutions (geographic hubs) to ensure reward principles and practice are aligned with local needs.
• The role-holder will have responsibility for the tactical implementation of operational reward processes – to do this they will need to work closely with People advisory and operations teams as well as the central reporting team.

Main Accountabilities:

Professional Services Expertise:

• To utilise their knowledge of British Council total reward strategy, principles and processes to be able to tactically implement reward initiatives (including pay and benefits) and processes locally in the regions, that are aligned to the overall reward strategy and principles but adapted to local and business unit strategic contexts.

• Role-holder will be expected to utilise their external total reward knowledge and experience to contribute to developing and adapting global, business unit and regional reward strategies, principles and processes.

Consultancy, Analysis, and Problem Solving:

• Contributing to the development of and utilising reward data dashboards and data analytics (including external market data) to provide insight to business unit/regional leadership teams to help them make evidence-based reward decisions.

Relationship and Stakeholder Management:

• To maintain tactical relationships with regional and business unit leadership teams so as to provide insightful total reward expert advice and also to incorporate their views into global and regional reward strategy and process development.

Role-Specific Skills:

• Data Literacy: Use data to make informed decisions (Developing).
• Business Acumen: Interpret external business trends and organizational factors (Developing).
• Digital Agility: Integrate technology to build efficient HR solutions (Developing).
• People Advocacy: Ensure ethical conduct and compliance (Developing).
• Execution Excellence: Implement adaptive plans to achieve results (Developing).

Role-Specific Knowledge and Experience:

Minimum/essential

• Experience of working in a multinational and multi-cultural organisation and working across multiple lines of business/divisions in a matrix approach
• Experience of working in consultancy level Total Reward roles in a multi-national, corporate or consulting environment
• Experience of contributing to reward design and the implementation of new reward initiatives for commercial organisations
• Experience of utilising HR and reward data and analytics to inform reward strategy and design work and provide insights to business leaders

Professional Qualification and Certification

• Evidence of completing Total Reward specific CIPD (or equivalent e.g. World at Work) formal training (e.g. pay structure design, developing reward strategies, communicating reward practice)

Language Requirements: Proficiency in English (written and verbal).

Interested in applying? for detailed role profile please send an email to AskHR@britishcouncil.org

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Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment.  We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability.  All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

The British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with.

We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989.

Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.

If you have any problems with your application please email askhr@britishcouncil.org