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Hybrid - 2 days in the office £35 per hour (umbrella) Job Family overview Organisational support job family overview: Delivery of services to support the Council and its partners in longer term; corporate compliance, contracting, planning, performance, policy and strategy. Focus on the business and service infrastructure of the Council and its partners to ensure effective management and proper compliance Advice and services rendered will generally be accepted as authoritative and recommended practice Specialist area and/or management knowledge Understanding area concepts and plans Defining implications of external influences and trends Shaping of Council responses including service plans/strategies & policies Definition & management of strategic planning processes Monitoring and reporting of performance Service / function Context The overall responsibilities of the service/function are: The Wiltshire Pension Fund is established under Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations. Its purpose is to meet all future pension liabilities of its scheme members, whilst at the same time seeking to minimise the contributions that need to be paid into the Fund by the employer bodies. The level of employer contributions is assessed every three years through an actuarial valuation of the Fund. The Wiltshire Pension Fund administers pensions on behalf of over 180 different employer organisations, ranging from local authorities, FE colleges, academies, charities and third party service providers. The Pension Team is responsible for the governance and administration of the Wiltshire Pension Fund as well as the Fire Uniform Pension schemes. The LGPS benefits being administered amount to liabilities, valued at the last triennial valuation of £2.7bn and these are funded by assets managed by the Fund of circ. £3bn. The Fund pays out benefits of around £100m each year and receives in contributions from employers of £120m. The Fund must be administered in line with the appropriate statutory scheme and a variety of overarching legislation, including tax regulations. It also has to comply with various statutory guidance, in particular the Pension Regulator's Code of Practice 13, which covers the governance requirements expected of all public sector pension schemes, including the LGPS. Importantly the Fund is required to report any breaches of the law to the Pension Regulator, whether they have occurred within the Fund or any of the scheme's employers. The correct administration is critical to ensure the Fund isn't fined by the Pension Regulator along with the associated reputational risk, but the management of the Fund's assets and liabilities is attributable to its solvency and determines the level of contributions to be paid by employer's organisations, a significant cost for them and for many smaller employers as this has a direct impact on their financial viability. The Wiltshire Pension Fund ensures all pension benefits are paid correctly, on a timely basis and in line with the scheme regulations. It manages the relationships with the Fund's 180+ scheme employers, overseeing the admission and cessation of these organisations. It monitors and reviews the investment strategy of the Fund and brings forward proposals for improvement as appropriate to ensure the assets and costs of the Wiltshire Pension Fund are accounted for and reported correctly and legally. Investment manager services are procured on behalf of the Fund via the Brunel Pension Partnership, in which the Fund participates together with 9 other LGPS Funds. It procures actuarial services and other third party providers which value more than £7m and to ensure the continual development and enhancement of the pension administration service by improving performance and appropriate development of IT. Main Purpose of the Job To plan and implement the new payroll system, supervising and coordinating transition of the Pensioner Payroll out of the Council's system onto a payroll integrated within the pension administration system. Monitoring and reporting on progress of this project to senior management, working with internal colleagues and external software providers. Independently developing new working practices and control processes in collaboration with the pension administration team. To have overall responsibility for the pensioner payroll making more than 16,000 monthly BACS payments worth c£100m p/a. Ensure monthly pension payments and twice weekly immediate payments are made on time and accurately to all beneficiaries. All required regulatory returns and payments are completed and submitted on time. As the leading qualified payroll specialist within the pension fund this role will require the post holder to independently lead this service and to resolve any issues and plan effectively to ensure this critical service is provided throughout the year. Any required support will need to be requested via external agencies or through reference to specialist pensions and tax regulations by the post holder. Design and implement controls and processes to ensure the payroll is accurate, well controlled and administered efficiently. To report monthly on the effectiveness of these controls to senior management and identify any problems, proactively considering risks and problems before they occur. Regularly undertake tasks to ensure the accuracy of payroll records, working with internal colleagues and external agencies to carry out mortality tracing, annual pension increases, pensioner records updates and dealing with any overpayment recovery. To lead and direct the Payroll Officer, encompassing initial training and any changes to existing working practice. To plan workload across the small team to ensure all payroll deadlines are met to ensure on time and accurate payments are maintained. Job duties Run the monthly pensioner payroll, making timely and accurate payments to all pensioners. Ensuring all tasks are planned and conducted on time. This will include processing starters, leavers and any changes. Responding to time pressured requests for new payments and prioritising changes or new pensions to be paid as well as responding to requests from other teams and pensioners, ensuring the fixed monthly payroll deadline is always met. To plan and implement transition of the Pensioner Payroll out of the Council's payroll system onto a payroll integrated within the pension administration system. Working with the system provider and council payroll team to transfer data in a controlled manner. Design and implement new processes to run within the pension team and proactively consider risks and controls required. Complete all statutory returns and make associated payments, such as RTI returns to HMRC and tax payments on time. To be responsible for all member/HMRC tax code queries, ensuring the correct tax deductions are applied to pensions in payment. Maintaining a high level of understanding of relevant pensions and HMRC regulations which affect the payroll, interpreting these and ensuring the fund remains compliant. Undertaking this as the senior and senior leader of the payroll service for the pension fund and where support is required seeking appropriate external advice and guidance on issues. To undertake monthly reconciliations and controls, compiling these to report on their effectiveness. Identify any issues and design new processes to address any problems. Being proactive in considering risks to the payroll to fraud, error or system failure and designing new processes to continually ensure a robust and accurate service is provided. To work alongside the Benefit Managers to ensure all overpaid pensions are recovered on notification of death. To undertake regular processes to ensure the integrity of payroll data, completing mortality tracing, updating payroll records such as address and bank detail changes. Reviews of child pension payments and ensuring changes to monthly pension payments for dependants transferring from short to long term benefits. Providing a high quality service to all scheme members, effectively being the first point of contact for all relevant queries, issuing payslips and P60 reports. To work in collaboration with member services department to resolve any queries from pensioners. To provide outputs from the payroll system for input to the financial ledger. Ensure clear and informative information is provided to members on their pay, through payslips and p60 documents provided electronically. This role forms a key post in the Operations Team, and depending on workload will be required to assist with other tasks across the team in line with the skills and responsibilities of the role, in order to provide team resilience. Person Specification Essential Experience of running a payroll for a large employer. A relevant professional payroll qualification. Evidence of continued professional development. Significant understanding of the principles of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). Experience and working knowledge of the issues surrounding pensions nationally. Significant evidence of negotiation and influencing skills. A proven ability to solve problems and develop innovative, streamlined solutions. Skills in delegating and working with other members of a team. Fully conversant with Microsoft Office. Computer literate with at least "intermediate" spreadsheet skills and competent word-processing skills. . click apply for full job details

We are looking for an energetic and enthusiastic new Jaywinger to join our Client Services Team, supporting the day-to-day delivery of integrated campaigns across the agency. Our Senior Account Managers are at the heart of our client partnerships. In this role, you'll help shape and deliver integrated strategies across creative, digital, and media channels, collaborating closely with our in-house experts across strategy, content, PPC, SEO, Paid Social, and beyond. We're looking for a strategic thinker who can confidently manage relationships, lead on briefs, and bring opportunities and campaigns to life with the support of our talented specialists. You'll need to be organised, proactive, and commercially astute with a natural ability to build trust and foster strong relationships both internally and externally. You'll help clients succeed through a full-funnel approach and contribute to wider account planning and strategic initiatives. Working alongside Client Services, you'll identify growth opportunities, support creative, digital, and media strategy, and ensure excellence across both day-to-day delivery and broader campaign impact. Sound like your kind of challenge? Then you might be the person we're looking for. You'll be part of one of our client teams, and will report directly to a Group Account Director. You'll also have access to brilliant people across our business-including media performance specialists, data scientists, strategists, creatives, and developers-who'll support you every step of the way. Key Accountabilities Essential skills will include (but not be limited to!): 3 - 4 years' experience minimum in Organic and Paid Media. You will have a strong understanding and proven experience managing integrated media and digital accounts, enabling you to have high level strategic conversations with clients and channel specialists alongside understanding of all aspects of media activity briefing and delivery. At least 2 years' experience working directly on creative, digital, and UX projects. You'll have a solid understanding of how ideas come to life across channels and experience supporting integrated projects. This will enable you to contribute to high-level conversations with designers, UX specialists, and strategists, as well as confidently brief, manage, and help deliver creative and digital activity. This is a proactive role, you won't be sitting back waiting for briefs. You'll actively seek out opportunities, tackle challenges head-on, and bring ideas together across teams to drive stronger outcomes for clients. Willingness to get stuck in - supporting all levels within the team, managing day-to-day client relationships, and handling digital projects and retained accounts. A natural organiser - you'll be expected to juggle multiple projects, client demands and deadlines on a daily basis - working with the Account Executives and coordinating the support of a talented team internally, to make sure client's needs are met and expectations exceeded. Previous experience working within an integrated agency (or client-side) - You'll be used to liaising with media experts, analytics, developers and creatives to get the work done effectively on behalf of your clients. You'll be pulling together insights, channel strategies, and creative ideas to shape solutions, then sharing campaign ideas and results with both the client and the agency teams. You'll understand the customer journey and the impacts that can be made by actions at the right time and through the right channel and you have the capability to efficiently create and articulate a comprehensive integrated client strategy across the entire sales funnel. A head for data and an analytical mindset- whether it's evaluating a spike in a client's results or understanding the reasons behind a lack of interactions, your naturally inquisitive nature will be spotting potential opportunities to put our data science experts to work. Strong evidence of building relationships with clients, suppliers, and colleagues. Our Senior Account Managers are critical to the success of our client/agency relationship and look to strike an amazing balance between client and agency to ensure we provide best in class client service. Numerate and financially aware, you'll have an attention for detail and be the person responsible for ensuring your account's commercials are all in place, dotting the I's and crossing the T's. Great people skills - your personality will flex from brainstorming ideas with the internal team, taking briefs from clients and trouble-shooting the natural glitches and conflicts that occur. Teamwork will be key to deliver the best results for our clients. Confident in presenting - be it showcasing a case study to the team or delivering a presentation directly to your client on trends, competitors, or results, you'll have some PowerPoint wizardry and presentation experience under your belt. Ability to handle client feedback, both praise and critique, then effectively manage actions and provide feedback to the internal team whilst managing the client's expectations on deliverables throughout a project's process. An interest in the bigger picture. Working alongside a number of internal stakeholders to understand the client's business and strategically help them shape their full funnel approach. Why work at Jaywing? Jaywing has a friendly and ambitious culture. We believe in thinking big, exploring new technology, using data science to inspire creativity, caring about everything that has our name behind it, and working as one team. We believe that creativity cannot exist without method and vice versa. With clients spanning Pepsi Max, Hallmark, Jamie Oliver, Curry's Group, Walkers, Savills and Goodyear we have a real mix and are super proud of the portfolio of 50+ brilliant brands we've amassed over the years. Where? The role is based in our Leeds office, with flexibility around when you come in - we typically aim for three days a week together. Send a covering letter, CV and anything else you think showcases your talent to Jaywing is an equal opportunities employer.

BIND UK is a specialist team offering expert advice and guidance to organisations that are determined to deliver practical, positive and permanent impact to the UK s Food Waste Challenge. We believe change is created not by a handful of people doing sustainability perfectly, but by everyone doing a little something. Find out more about our values and purpose here. About Eat Smart Eat Smart is a successful primary school educational programme born in the NE of England designed to inspire children and schools to reduce food waste and build sustainable food systems. We deliver engaging resources and learning experiences that empower schools and pupils to have more ownership of their kitchens/dinner halls, improve student wellbeing, and have increased environmental awareness. Since 2018 Eat Smart has enabled 70 schools in North East England to rescue their food waste by over 25%, equivalent to saving 6,000 meals worth £13,000 per school, per year, and our expansion to other areas of the UK has already begun. With an ever-growing data set and credibility for school food waste prevention, we have increasing potential to affect school food policy and deliver food waste prevention interventions on a national level. As we expand our delivery across the UK, we are seeking a dynamic and strategic Development Manager to lead the expansion via a franchise model, build partnerships, and oversee the operational excellence of our growing network. This is a pivotal leadership role focused on scaling the Eat Smart model nationally. The postholder will drive growth by developing regional and national partnerships, securing funding streams, recruiting and onboarding delivery partners, and ensuring quality and impact across all Eat Smart schools and organisations. You will combine strong operational management with strategic business development ensuring Eat Smart continues to grow sustainably, aligning with Bind s aims and values. Key Responsibilities Strategic Growth & Project Development Co-develop and deliver a UK-wide expansion strategy for Eat Smart Develop and manage the franchise/licensing model for national delivery partners Lead on the recruitment, onboarding, and support of partner organisations to deliver the Eat Smart programme effectively Funding & Partnership Development Identify, establish and nurture partnerships with national and local government agencies, policy makers, school bodies and funders Build strategic relationships with relevant education, environment and community organisations Research relevant funding opportunities for delivery partners and Bind Support delivery partners with the submission of funding applications UK Network Management & Evaluation Co-design/develop the Eat Smart monitoring and evaluation system to monitor KPIs and the environmental and social impact of Eat Smart across the UK Lead on the management of the monitoring and evaluation system, supporting delivery partners where necessary Create local and national impact reports for Eat Smart and use insights to inform improvement and growth Manage the support network of UK delivery partners, ensuring they are able to deliver the programme effectively Assist delivery partners with meetings with Local Authorities and catering organisations Marketing & Communications Co-design and lead on delivery of annual Eat Smart conferences Represent Eat Smart at events, conferences, and networking opportunities across the UK Manage Eat Smart UK social media channels Develop digital and print materials to support programme promotion and recruitment Person Specification Essential: Align with Bind s values. If you are this, we can teach you the rest! Understanding of third sector grant funding landscape and experience in successful bid writing Strong project management and organisational skills Experience in partnership and stakeholder recruitment and management Ability to lead, inspire, and develop teams of partners remotely Experience with monitoring, evaluation, and reporting frameworks Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for improving environmental and education outcomes. Excellent written and verbal communicator and proficient in IT systems (shared documents, spreadsheets, Zoom/Teams/Meet, social media, website editing and emails) Desirable: Interest in, and awareness of, food waste on a local and global level Experience in business development, franchise management, or operational leadership Experience working in education, environment or social impact sectors Knowledge of primary school systems Experience of community engagement in the UK Full driving license and access to own vehicle A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure Check will be required for the post, but a clean DBS certificate is not essential for the role - we will review employees with a criminal record on a case-by-case basis. What We Offer Opportunity to shape and lead the national growth of an amazing educational programme A collaborative, mission-driven environment with real social and environmental impact Flexible working arrangements and supportive leadership. Many of our Eat Smart staff choose to work term-time only Remote working, with an office in Newcastle's Ouseburn Valley Being part of a small and passionate team, who believe in a positive disruptive mission to change the food waste landscape across the UK. Key Information Deadline for all applications is Mon 12th January 2026 at 9am applications received after this date will not be considered. In-person interviews will take place on 21st January 2026 in Newcastle. Based in Newcastle s Ouseburn Valley but this role can be worked remotely/hybrid (some UK-wide travel required incl. a trip to Newcastle minimum monthly) Contract: 30-32 hours per week (with the option of increased hours during term-time and reduced hours in school holidays). The start date will be end of February 2026, but start dates will be discussed at interview. We will contact all applicants as soon as possible to inform them of the status of their application.