Serious Violence Project Coordinator - Partnerships and Prevention

Are you interested in a varied and challenging role at the heart of work across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to tackle serious violence?  Are you passionate about prevention and early intervention to ensure young people stay on the right track away from involvement in crime, be that as perpetrators or victims?  Are you able to understand the bigger picture and work with a wide range of partners to ensure an effective response to prevent violence in our communities?  If so, then we need you to support work to tackle violence and keep our communities safe.

A vacancy has arisen for a new system-wide co-ordination post based in Cambridgeshire Constabulary.  The post will support the implementation of the new Serious Violence Duty in Cambridgeshire.  This duty is designed to ensure a multi-agency approach to understand the causes and consequences of serious violence, focusing on prevention and early intervention.

The role will be varied.  You will be taking the lead on supporting and providing project management for serious violence activity across the partnership.  You will work strategically and tactically with a range of agencies and community organisations to build capacity and support local project development.

You will need to be comfortable balancing competing priorities, against a backdrop of complex partnership working and change.  You will need to be able to translate detailed information against big picture context and local issues. You also need to work professionally and effectively with local stakeholders to maximise a co-ordinated multiagency approach.

You will be part of a supportive Partnerships and Prevention Team who are splitting their time between working from home and from different police offices across the county.  You must be able to travel to the office, and around the county and elsewhere for meetings to meet business need.

The role is full time (37 hours), but flexible working arrangements will be considered.

The role is fixed term, with national funding in place until March 2025.  There may a possibility of extension depending on funding availability at that time.

If this sounds like a job for you and you would like a quick chat, please contact Superintendent Laura Hunt by email in the first instance – Laura.Hunt@cambs.police.uk.

The deadline for applications is 13th February 2023.  Interviews will take place at Police Headquarters in Huntingdon on 24th February 2023.

Please note, as below, the statement of no more than 500 words should be against the minimum entry requirements as stipulated in the role profile not the competency and values framework. 

For the purposes of the application, you will be expected to provide your CV as well as evidence against the minimum entry requirements (MERs).  There is a word count limit of 500 words for the MERs. 

If you are shortlisted for interview, you will be expected to evidence against all CVF competencies and the minimum entry requirements as stipulated in the role profile. 

Additional Information 

All internal applicants must have successfully completed their probationary period to apply for this role. 

Internal applicants within Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary or Hertfordshire Constabulary (BCH), should upload either a CV or provide relevant skills, experiences and qualifications on Word/PDF document. 

This vacancy is live to those at risk of redundancy and will remain open to redeployees until the conditional offer stage throughout the recruitment process. Please see attached role profile for guidance. Redeployees will take priority over other applicants at any point during the recruitment process up until conditional offer. 

As a Disability Confident leader, we take personal responsibility to help create an inclusive workplace, where police officers and staff respect one another, feel valued for their differences and can be themselves. We are committed to providing workplace adjustments, wherever needed so everyone feels welcome and can flourish. If you have a disability and you meet the minimum criteria for the position you are applying for, you will be entitled to an interview under the ‘Offer an Interview Scheme’. 

It is recommended that you download and store a copy of the role profile as this will no longer be available once the advert has closed.