How you'll make a difference:
As a Job Analyst, you will be the council's specialist lead for job evaluation and organisational design, playing a key role in shaping how we structure our workforce. Working closely with HR colleagues and Trade Union representatives, you will provide expert advice on job evaluation, career families and role profiles, helping to ensure a fair, consistent approach that aligns with our
Pay Policy Statement and organisational design principles. You'll also support workforce change initiatives, helping teams adapt and thrive as the organisation evolves.
What you will be doing:
- Delivering specialist job evaluation and organisational design support, you will help shape roles and organisational structures across the council, ensuring they are designed, evaluated and graded fairly and consistently.
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Using your specialist knowledge, you will provide advice, guidance and training to managers and HR colleagues on career families, role profiles and the council's validation process, promoting a consistent and fair approach which complies with our Pay Policy Statement.
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You will play a key role in organisational change and transformation programmes, advising on job design and departmental structures to help deliver effective services.
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It will be your responsibility to coordinate and share the chairing of fortnightly validation panels for new or changed roles across the council. You will ensure documentation is accurate, evaluations are evidence-based and grading decisions are fair and consistent, this includes supporting appeal panels and benchmarking roles against appropriate comparators.
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Working across the organisation, you will contribute to pay determination processes and support the sharing of pay and conditions information through external forums.
What we need from you:
- It is essential that you have considerable, in-depth experience of Korn Ferry Hay Group job evaluation, job analysis and organisational design in an HR function within a large, complex, multi-site and unionised environment.
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You must have previous experience of working within HR and managing a job evaluation scheme, with a strong understanding of the organisational impact of job evaluation decisions.
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We are looking for someone with experience of chairing and guiding job evaluation meetings, seeking consensus from its members.
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You will have the ability to influence and persuade managers and staff on grading matters, role profiles, career families and structures within a restructure.
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Given the nature of this work, you will have excellent interviewing, presentation, training and communication skills to be able to mentor and develop colleagues in job evaluation and the chairing of validation panels.
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You will have strong organisational, planning and scheduling skills, combined with a high level of attention to detail.
What you need to know:
- Your salary is pro-rata to hours worked.
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This is a limited term contract, due to end 31st July 2027.
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This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and from home.
Interviews will be held on 22nd September 2026.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
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We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
- What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.
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We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Job Analyst - Job Description
