INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY VAWG Team Manager

***Internal Applicants Only***

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: PO6 54267 - 57402

Contract Type: Full-time Permanent

Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline: 17/11/2025

Reference:1924

About Us:

Bursting with culture energy and opportunity the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused insight-led digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of Londons Good Work Standardemployers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions workplace well-being skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

About the role:

The Waltham Forest VAWG Model is an externally evaluated ground-breaking and innovative project in VAWG prevention supporting survivors and addressing perpetration of Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) primarily through a community mobilisation/ownership approach. The postholder will strategically lead and manage the delivery of the WF VAWG Model ensuring the service meets all Council professional and legislative requirements including safeguarding responses.

We seek a self-motivated leader with experience in developing and delivering VAWG training and programmes who can drive the team and project to achieve all required goals and outcomes.

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Key Responsibilities:

They will oversee the VAWG Teams day-to-day operations covering survivor support perpetrator engagement community mobilisation and training delivery. They will be responsible for project management including developing bespoke VAWG focused engagement plans for each community setting. Building and maintaining strong relationships with each community partner is an essential element vital to the success of this project.

The postholder will develop and oversee a training programme for internal and external partners ensuring VAWG training is available to all council departments and strategic partner agencies including social care health settings housing and schools.

Qualifications and Requirements:

A good understanding of VAWG
An understanding of how violence and abuse disproportionally affect women and girls and how VAWG is both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality and a manifestation of Misogyny
Understanding of risk and best practice in engagement with perpetrators of VAWG

Experience managing and supervising teams
Experience of developing and delivering VAWG training and programmes
Experience of embedding and evaluating VAWG interventions
Experience carrying out community work
Experience in partnership working with voluntary and community settings
Experience producing monitoring reports and data
Strong organisation skills and an ability to develop a consistent systematic approach to how the whole team works with community and statutory settings
Ability to build robust and effective relationships with community settings
Effective communication skills including the confidence to communicate verbally in new settings and at various meetings and forums on a regular basis
Ability to be flexible and to conduct regular travel within the borough

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the Apply button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair appropriate accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2 internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.

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