Violence Reduction Coordinator

3 months contract with A Local Authority

Job Summary:

Provide coordination across both the MOPAC funded and Newham Partnership investment to deliver stabilise and reduce violence across the borough by identifying and ensuring that interventions are delivered effectively whilst coordinating action to address the major causes of violence across Newham.

Support the Community Safety Manager to deliver the Newham Community Safety Partnership priorities to reduce violence relating specifically to gang related violence and knife crime as well as violence against women and girls (VAWG) and other relevant priorities for the partnership that may emerge.

Working in partnership across a range of statutory and nonstatutory agencies responsible for coordinating the strategic and operational delivery of the Newham Community Safety Partnership violence reduction action plans.

Coordinate the tasking and delivery of interventions tackling violence alongside the work of partner agencies and the local community feeding into strategic delivery boards and ensuring the interventions and risk management plans in place are having an impact on the reduction of violence within the borough.

Attend and provide input into relevant case management and strategic panels in place to tackle and manage violence and vulnerability issues.

Key Duties/Accountabilities:

Liaising with criminal justice partners (Police Courts and prisons) to ensure that robust and holistic action is taken to reduce offending relating to violence and vulnerability related crimes including gang crime and VAWG and increase conviction rates for offenders.

Coordinating implementing and monitoring violence and vulnerability strategies and action plans.

Ensuring an annual review of the strategic assessment of the borough violence and vulnerability issues to help inform appropriate support and interventions; helping to address service and intervention gaps through effective commissioning.

The post holder will be responsible for managing a budget managing all allocated resources commissioned by the CSP and ensure all financial and performance claims are completed and sent to the partnership and funding bodies such as MOPAC.

Providing specific expertise and knowledge to the team and wider partnership on the V&V issues inclusive of gang related agendas reducing violence and vulnerability issues and VAWG and domestic abuse to aid an increase in community safety.

Essential Experience Required:

Experience of working on VAWG (specifically domestic abuse) agenda and roles and responsibilities of various agencies involved in responding to it.

Experience of working on gang and knife crime agendas and the roles and responsibilities of various agencies involved in responding to it.

Experience of commissioning and performance monitoring for effective contract management.

Experience of managing budgets including grant allocations

Experience of leading and governing partnership programme delivery.

Essential Qualifications Required:

Educated to degree level or appropriate relevant experience.

Additional information to note:

DBS Check.

The closing date for this position is 24/05/24.