Pensions Team Manager

What will you be doing?

We’re excited to announce a fantastic opportunity to join Kent Pension Fund as a Pensions Team Manager. This role has become available due to the growth in demand for our services.

About the Role

As a Pensions Team Manager, you’ll take a key leadership role within our Pensions Team, helping to deliver a high‑quality administration service for the many employers and scheme members of Kent Pension Fund.

You will:

- Line manage and support a team of colleagues

- Coordinate workloads and ensure tasks are completed to a high standard

- Use your detailed knowledge of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) — or your expertise in other public sector schemes with a willingness to learn LGPS

- Apply your understanding of our pensions administration platform, Altair, to deliver excellent customer care

- Work closely with and report to the Pensions Performance and Operations Lead Manager

This is a role where your leadership, technical ability and people‑skills all come together to make a real difference.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working Arrangements

Your main base will be Maidstone, with a hybrid working pattern that blends home and office, dependent upon business needs. Whilst this advert is for a full time position that is available, we also welcome applications from candidates willing to work at least 30 hours a week.

How To Apply

To help us understand your fit for the role, please clearly outline your Local Government pensions administration experience in the "how you meet the requirements" section of your application. This is a customer-facing role. Under the Immigration Act (2016), applicants must have a level of spoken English/Welsh that ensures effective communication with colleagues and customers. Full details are in the Job Description and Person Specification.

About you

For further details about the role please contact Jenny Steggles (Jennifer.steggles@kent.gov.uk)

About us

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.