[Hiring] Reward and Recognition Manager @Mission Aviation Fellowship International

Role Description

Help shape the reward, benefits and recognition framework for a newly integrated global organisation, and lead its implementation.

As Reward and Recognition Manager you lead a department of two sub-functions — pay structures and framework, and benefits, allowances and recognition — serving around 850 staff across roughly 20 pay and legal jurisdictions, including some 120 internationally mobile staff. This is a build role, not a caretaker role: you’ll bring reward expertise to our global reward framework project, alongside an external specialist partner and colleagues across the organisation, and then own its implementation, monitoring and governance.

Designing reward across many countries and currencies — competitive enough to attract talent, equitable enough that colleagues trust the system, and financially sustainable — is a genuinely complex problem. You would shape the answer alongside colleagues around the world.

Responsibilities

• Embed the approved reward and recognition framework across our geographies — balancing market competitiveness, internal equity and affordability.
• Act as reward specialist in the global reward framework project, then own the approved framework’s implementation, monitoring and governance across MAF International.
• Develop and maintain the methodology behind international pay: north/south pay frameworks, cost-of-living methodology and hardship scales.
• Set global minimum standards for benefits while keeping their design and delivery close to each local employment market.
• Design recognition approaches with L&OD and People Care that reinforce agreed behaviours and contribution.
• Contribute to a People and Culture and Finance project on how payroll will be organised across the countries we operate in.
• Advise leadership up to Board level on reward philosophy and lead a small expert team.

Qualifications

• A successful track record in a senior global reward role, ideally in an international or not-for-profit organisation.
• Experience designing international pay frameworks — north/south structures, COLA methodology and expatriate compensation.
• Deep technical craft: job evaluation, market benchmarking, pay structures and recognition practice.
• Strong analytical and modelling skills; a compensation certification is welcome.
• The ability to make reward clear and credible — so people at every level understand and trust how they’re paid.
• High integrity, courageous judgement, and the ability to make reward decisions that hold organisational, financial and values considerations together.
• You share our vision, mission and values.

Closing Date

Applications close on the 27th November. We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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If you are an experienced reward professional who wants to use your expertise for something bigger than remuneration alone, we would love to hear from you. Please click on the 'Enquire Now' link and register your interest.