Salary and benefits
Salary: Up to £130,000 depending on experience
The appointee may also be considered for end of year and in year non-consolidated performance bonuses subject to individual performance.
Please note: Standard Civil Service pay rules apply for existing civil servants.
Locations: East Kilbride / Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham.
The postholder should be able to attend meetings in the central London headquarters at least one day per week.
Please note: All SCS2 and above are expected to come into the office more than 60% of the working week.
Benefits: We take your career and development seriously and want to enable you to build a successful career with the department and wider Civil Service.
It is crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead, and you’ll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure this development is ongoing.
As a Civil Service employee, you’ll be entitled to a large range of benefits.
This includes:
- 25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to your public holidays.
- This will be complemented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King’s Birthday.
- Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle.
- Flexible working patterns and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day provided you work your total hours.
- A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join and where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension.
- Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.
- Use of onsite facilities (where applicable).
- Occupational sick pay.
Civil Service Pension
As a Senior Civil Servant, your pension is the most valuable benefit after your salary that you have working with us in the Civil Service. Providing you with financial security when you retire and also providing cover for your family and loved ones should the worst happen.
Simon Claydon – Director of Civil Service Pay, Policy & Pensions
Great member pension
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
- Provides a secure pension payable for life with no investment uncertainty
- Choice of a tax-free lump sum
- Generous build rate of 2.32% of your earnings as a pension each year.
- Choice of entering a Defined Contribution scheme
What pension could you get?
- For example, if you earned £70,000 pa
- After 10 years you could have a pension of £16,610pa or a pension of £10,678pa and a tax-free lump sum of £71,187
- After 20 years this could be £34,070pa, or a pension of £21,902pa and a tax-free lump sum of £146,014
Generous employer contribution
Employer contribution towards your pension is extremely generous – on average 27% of your pay.
These contributions pay for:
- A pension for you
- Pension for your loved ones
- Death benefits
- Ill health benefits
Death benefits
- Able to nominate anyone (including charities) for a tax-free lump sum in the event of your death
- Lump Sum of up to two times your pay
- Pension for your spouse/partner of around 37.5% of your pension
- Pension for eligible children
For more information on the Civil Service Pension Scheme please visit www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk