[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.

Location: Flexible, with a preference for the successful candidate to be based at one of our MAF International entities.

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.

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.

Benefits

• A rare chance to build, not just run — you join as the function takes shape, with genuine influence on its design.
• Work from anywhere: this role is globally remote, because talent matters more than time zone.
• A small, expert team with real influence, in an organisation whose work has measurable impact.

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.