Compensation and Benefits Specialist

If you’re driven by fairness, transparency and making a meaningful impact, this Compensation and Benefits Specialist role offers you the chance to shape how one of the UK’s most influential organisations approaches pay and reward.

Fólk Recruitment is supporting UNISON, the UK’s leading public services trade union, to appoint someone who will play a central role in ensuring UNISON’s pay and reward framework is fair, sustainable and aligned with organisational values, while remaining realistic within financial constraints.

What’s in it for you:

• Starting salary of circa £58,000 pa dependent on experience
• Hybrid working and a 35 hour working week – Office location in Euston
• 12 month fixed term contract
• The opportunity to lead a high impact, organisation wide pay and reward project
• Working in a values led environment where fairness, equality and transparency genuinely matter
• The chance to influence long term reward strategy and lasting organisational change
• Exposure to senior stakeholders, governance bodies and trade union representatives

As the Compensation and Benefits Specialist, you’ll be:

• Leading a comprehensive review of salary structures, grading and the wider reward framework
• Delivering robust salary benchmarking and analysing complex pay and benefits data
• Reviewing equal pay audit outcomes and supporting follow up actions
• Assessing job evaluation schemes and recommending future improvements
• Producing clear, evidence based recommendations to support short and long term decision making

We’re looking for a Compensation and Benefits Specialist with:

• Strong experience in salary benchmarking, human resource, job evaluation or reward strategy, ideally from a trade union, public sector or not for profit context
• A solid understanding of equal pay legislation, pay gap reporting and employment law
• Confidence analysing complex financial data and translating it into clear insights
• Strong communication and report writing skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• A values led, adaptable approach with the confidence to work independently and collaboratively

You’ll be comfortable engaging with HR colleagues, leadership teams and trade union representatives, building trust and balancing multiple perspectives to deliver meaningful outcomes.

If you’re ready to take on a purposeful role where your work will genuinely make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to find out more about this Compensation and Benefits Specialist opportunity with UNISON, supported by Fólk Recruitment.

UNISON have over 1.3 million members working in the public sector, private, voluntary and community sectors and in the energy services. They employ approximately 1,200 staff, with around 370 at the national centre in Euston in central London and the remainder in 12 regions across the UK, including Northern Ireland. UNISON is a dynamic, progressive union, committed to equality. We encourage men and women of all ages, black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to work with us.