# Head of Pensions Administration Consulting

**Company**: Government Actuary's Department
**Location**: London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 104,694 - 118,290 per year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

You will lead GAD’s Pensions Administration Consulting team, setting the strategic direction for one of the department’s fastest growing areas of client work, with a current team of around 20 staff.

You will ensure the team plays a central role in supporting government across a range of pensions administration challenges, including procurement and transition to new providers, data quality, quality assurance, governance and response to emerging policy changes.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of public service pensions administration, with your leadership helping ensure workers and pensioners receive the accurate, timely service they deserve.

**Job description**

As Head of Pensions Administration Consulting, you will be accountable for ensuring GAD provides clear, robust and practical advice that commands confidence with senior clients and supports effective outcomes.

You will bring professional judgement, strategic insight and operational leadership to help shape the future of GAD’s offer and ensure effective management of the delivery across the team.

You will act as the senior ambassador, commercial leader and public face of GAD’s administration consulting work, representing the department with clients, stakeholders and the wider pensions community.

Leading through senior specialist consultants, you will maintain a collaborative, inclusive and professionally excellent team that works across GAD to deliver high-quality outcomes for clients.

**Person specification**

You will provide strategic, operational and commercial leadership for the consulting team, setting priorities and ensuring that advice is technically sound, clearly communicated and relevant to the needs of government clients.

Particular responsibilities include:

- Strategy and Planning

- Strategic Growth and Operational Effectiveness

- People and Professional Leadership

- Client and Stakeholder Collaboration

**Behaviours**

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture

- Changing and Improving

- Leadership

- Communicating and Influencing

- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Substantial experience of communicating about pensions administration challenges, including the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to senior non-specialist audiences.

**Benefits**

Alongside your salary of £104,694, Government Actuary's Department contributes £30,329 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

As well as competitive salaries, we offer a substantial package of benefits:

- Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day-to-day work.

- 25 days annual leave per year, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service.

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

- 5 days of paid volunteering leave.

- Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave.

- Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year.

- Occupational sick pay.

- Family-friendly policies such as help with caring responsibilities, special leave, generous paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

- Access to employee assistance programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice.

- The opportunity to join a trade union.

- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity.

- Salary advances for travel costs, including annual season tickets and cycle-to-work schemes.

- Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice.

- Complimentary BUPA health check.

## Skills

### Required
- pensions administration
- strategic leadership
- operational leadership
- communication

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