Pensions Team Leader

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO4 (£49,056 – £ 52,194)
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent 
Closing date: Sunday, 31st August 2025
Interviews: w/c 8th September 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

We are seeking a proactive and experienced Pensions Team Leader to support the Pensions Administration Manager in delivering a high-quality Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) service. This pivotal role involves leading a dedicated team within the administration function, overseeing case management, quality-checking work, and contributing to the interpretation and implementation of regulatory changes affecting the fund.

As Team Leader, you will ensure that service delivery meets agreed standards by identifying and driving process improvements, maintaining operational excellence, and fostering a culture of continuous development. You will play a key role in upholding the integrity of the scheme and ensuring a responsive, member-focused approach for all LGPS stakeholders.

In addition, you will be expected to deputise for the Pensions Administration Manager when required, offering leadership and guidance across the wider team and supporting strategic initiatives.

About the Team

The Haringey Pensions team is an award-winning administration team, recently winning the Pensions Administration Award at the 2024 LAPF Investment awards.  A team of 12 with a firm focus on providing an excellent service to our 27,000 members, we constantly strive for improvement within our function and being at the forefront of best practice.
 

About You

You’ll have solid experience in Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) administration, ideally at a supervisory level, with the ability to interpret complex pensions legislation and manage challenging cases. Familiarity with pension administration systems and a track record of identifying process improvements will be key to your success.

You’re a confident communicator and a collaborative team player, able to work independently and respond effectively to shifting priorities and unexpected demands. Strong analytical and organisational skills are essential, especially when handling data, performance reporting, and managing workloads to tight deadlines.

Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications—particularly Outlook, Word, Excel, and SharePoint—is required. While industry qualifications such as PMI, CIPP or equivalent are desirable, we’re happy to support your professional development if you’re working toward them.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and well-being support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk