Vacancy Job Title: Payroll and Pensions Officer

Pay Scale: NJC Band C, Spinal Points 20 – 26

FTE Annual Value: £30,296 – £34,834

Full Time/Part Time: Full-time / Part-time (0.8 FTE)

Contract type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37 hours / 30 hours

Start Date: ASAP

The Role                                

This is an exciting role providing a high quality, efficient and compliant payroll and pensions administration service to the schools that we support and the central teams.  As part of our HR, Payroll and Pension team you will help us deliver an excellent support service, enabling our schools to focus on providing the best possible educational experience for the children in them.

We ideally would like to recruit a full-time payroll and pensions administrator however, we may be able to be flexible and accommodate a 30-hour working week, delivered over a minimum of four days per week.

In the role you will be an essential member of our wider HR, Payroll and Pensions and Administration team, working closely with and reporting to the HR Director.

You will have the chance to build strong relationships across our Education Services Company, our Multi-Academy Trusts and collaborate closely with others within our family of schools and the wider Diocese of Norwich family, all of which will contribute to supporting the best outcomes for the children in our schools.

We would love to hear from you if you have experience of payroll and pensions administration and are looking for a role that not only provides great customer experience to our schools, but also supports the wider community.  It is essential that you have payroll experience in order to undertake this role, working within the education sector would be desirable. You should be proficient in Microsoft Office products and be adept at learning how to use new systems.

In return we offer a competitive salary, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme and a collaborative and supportive workplace.  We also facilitate a hybrid working approach once our team members once the 6-month probation period has successfully been completed, with most of our team working remotely 1 or 2 days per week and coming together as a team on other days to both support each other, but also to develop warm working relationships which we believe delivers even better services.

About us

Immeasurably more than we can imagine!

Our passion and ambition is to see children in all our schools and academies achieve excellent educational outcomes alongside developing and growing into their potential as individuals. Our culture is one of high aspiration rooted in our Christian values. We have a desire to see Norfolk, and our schools in Northeast Suffolk, and its education system recognised as a place of aspiration, achievement and hope whether living in a rural area, coastal community, market town or the city of Norwich.

Established in September 2019, we provide support to the schools in our Trusts, including Finance, Estates, HR and Governance, allowing our schools to focus on what they do best – providing the best possible education standards to all pupils. The company’s objective is to provide high quality, value for money services for all the Diocesan academies and any VC or VA schools who wish to procure their services from it.