Secretary to the Review Body on Senior Salaries (two posts)
| Posting date: | 04 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £53,560 to £63,481 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London salary: £57,026 - £63,481 National salary: £53,560 - £60,118 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 September 2024 |
| Location: | Cardiff |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 367993/4 |
Summary
The Review Body on Senior Salaries (SSRB) advises on the remuneration of senior civil servants, senior armed forces officers, the judiciary, senior health service managers and chief police officers. Its recommendations must be based on an authoritative assessment of a range of issues and evidence bearing on the challenges of recruiting and retaining these senior leaders.
You will lead the work of the SSRB’s secretariat team, managing the process of evidence-gathering and considering issues, advising the SSRB and drafting much of its annual report and ensuring the SSRB has the evidence and analysis it needs to produce its recommendations. You will gain and develop the confidence of the SSRB chair and members as a source of well-judged advice to them on the policy issues and on their work programme.
The SSRB is about to undertake the next Major Review of the Judicial Salary Structure for the Lord Chancellor. This fundamental review of the pay structure of the judiciary, the first since 2017-18, is likely to take 18 months or more and report in the spring/summer of 2026.
The Review will be led by the SSRB’s lead member for the judiciary on behalf of the whole SSRB and will require its own secretariat, which you will lead. It will be a stimulating and rewarding task: the judiciary faces significant recruitment shortfalls and there are considerable backlogs in the courts – it is important that the review can develop proposals for future remuneration that respond to these challenges while giving the taxpayer value for money. You will also lead on the SSRB’s advice in its next annual report on a 2025 pay uplift for the judiciary.
As SSRB secretary (Post 1) you will be the go-to person for all things SSRB, from shaping its programme of work to appointments of members. As Major Review secretary (Post 2) you will, similarly, be the go-to person for the Review. In both these posts the task is to:
- Establish effective relationships with the chair and members.
- Lead a programme of work that engages all the relevant external interests and allows SSRB to make recommendations based in strong evidence and analysis.
- Develop a strong knowledge of the different remit groups/the Judiciary.
- Prepare papers summarising evidence, and developing and presenting options, including project-managing development of the reports, taking overall editorial control and leading personally on the writing of significant sections.
- Coordinate the work of your secretariat team and line-manage an HEO, and work collaboratively with the OME’s analysts and across OME more generally.
- Support SSRB members on visits across the UK to meet the groups and individuals in their workplaces, including attending some visits in person. (Visits are scheduled well in advance.)
- Help colleagues elsewhere in OME to deliver their objectives as part of a culture of helping each other across the work of the eight pay review bodies.
Although the Major Review will finish in 2026 Post 2 is available on a permanent basis since OPRB will have similar roles supporting Pay Review Bodies.