£300 per meeting 20 meetings per year
About the role
Introduction from the Secretary of State
Dear Candidate,
Thank you for your interest in these vacancies to be a Chair or a Member of the Senior Salaries Review Body.
You may already have some idea about the important work of the Senior Salaries Review Body. The following pages will tell you more about Senior Salaries Review Body purpose and the nature of the Board and these Member roles, as well as the application process. Please do also view the Senior Salaries Review Body website to understand their work and the strategic framework review they are currently undertaking: Senior Salaries Review Body
If, after reading the material, you have further questions about any aspect of this post you are welcome to speak to Florence Wyld, Secretary to the SSRB; Florence.Wyld@beis.gov.uk
If you have questions about the appointment process, you can contact: ssrbrecruitment@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
If you believe you have the experience and qualities we are seeking, we very much look forward to hearing from you.
Minister of State
Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG
Role description
The Senior Salaries Review Body is an independent body which provides independent advice to the Prime Minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State for Defence, the Secretary of State for Health and the Home Secretary on the pay of Senior Civil Servants, the judiciary, senior officers of the armed forces, certain senior managers in the NHS, Police and Crime Commissioners and chief police officers.
Since it was established in May 1971, the SSRB has gained a reputation as a highly respected pay review body. The SSRB continues to tackle a number of challenges: defence reforms may impact on senior military officers’ remuneration; the development of a new SCS pay framework; NHS reorganisation is changing the nature of the very senior remit group; and more recently, a major review of the judicial salary structure.
The Senior Salaries Review Body receives written and oral evidence from both the Government and representative organisations covering its remit. Other interested parties may also submit evidence. Pay review bodies weigh the evidence submitted and their own independent research to formulate recommendations on the remuneration of their remit groups. Their recommendations are submitted to the Government and, where appropriate, the devolved administrations. The Government’s response usually attracts extensive media coverage.
Consequently, the SSRB plays a highly visible and sensitive advisory role, for which the very best judgement and expertise is required. We are seeking applicants of proven ability, stature, and achievement who have a thorough understanding or rich experience of top manager reward and performance issues.
The Office of Manpower Economics (OME) – a non-statutory public body provides the secretariat for the review bodies. The OME is independent of Government and staffed by civil servants drawn mainly from the Department for Business and Trade.
Organisation description
Board composition
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of executive level management, with a substantial track record of working with committees and boards of directors or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in building and maintaining effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders, with the ability to provide constructive challenge as necessary.
- The ability to research and make judgements from complex data, and to contribute to workable recommendations on complex and sensitive issues.
- The ability to effectively communicate complex information in both written and verbal formats to different audiences.
- Some experience of serving on a remuneration committee, or a working knowledge of pay and reward systems.
- Proven experience of working in the legal sector, or working with the Judiciary or legal professionals.
- Proven experience of executive level management, with a substantial track record of working with committees and boards of directors or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in building and maintaining effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders, with the ability to provide constructive challenge as necessary
- The ability to research and make judgements from complex data, and to contribute to workable recommendations on complex and sensitive issues;
- The ability to effectively communicate complex information in both written and verbal formats to different audiences
- Some experience of serving on a remuneration committee, or a working knowledge of pay and reward systems.
- Proven experience of working in the legal sector, or working with the Judiciary or legal professionals.
- Proven experience of working in the NHS system, or working with senior NHS managers.
- Proven experience of executive level management, with a substantial track record of working with committees and boards of directors or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in building and maintaining effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders, with the ability to provide constructive challenge as necessary
- The ability to research and make judgements from complex data, and to contribute to workable recommendations on complex and sensitive issues;
- The ability to effectively communicate complex information in both written and verbal formats to different audiences
- Some experience of serving on a remuneration committee, or a working knowledge of pay and reward systems.
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of working in or engaging with the public sector
- Some experience of serving on a remuneration committee, or working knowledge of pay and reward systems.