Community Safety Partnership Coordinator

One of our local authority clients are currently recruiting for a Community Safety Partnership Coordinator. This is a temporary contract for 3 months with possible further extension based on budget and performance.

Main Purpose of Post/Job Summary

This role sits within the Council’s neighbourhood-based Community Safety Service. The aim of the role is to lead the development and delivery of a broad range of strategies, policy initiatives and actions plans developed to align with the priorities set via the Community Safety Partnership and the Youth Safety Taskforce. The post-holder will play an important role in working with the Community Safety Management team to deliver a range of initiatives which focus on strategic priorities such as women’s safety, violence reduction, hate crime, community cohesion and drug and alcohol related misuse and offending behaviour. The post holder will be innovative in their approach, able to drive change in a positive way, and have a clear understanding of the challenges faced by Camden’s communities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead on the delivery of work steams in relation to improving women’s safety and security in public spaces. This includes development, implementation and analysis of the Women’s Safety Action Plan and the formation of relationships with key internal services such as Camden Safety Net and Camden Women’s Forum.


• Lead on the development and effective implementation of strategic plans to achieve key milestones in relation to Community Cohesion and Hate Crime, with a particular emphasis on increasing hate crime reporting and providing support for victims and communities.


• Provide professional policy advice and guidance to councillors, senior leaders, managers and colleagues relating to community cohesion, women’s safety in the public realm and hate crime, ensuring that national and local insights analysis are used to inform local strategy and interventions.


• Engage directly with key stakeholders, senior leaders and cabinet members and report to key strategic forums as directed by the Head of Community Safety and Public Protection in order to shape policy and provide the required portfolio reports, briefings and policy statements.


• Work in partnership with the Prevent Coordinator to project manage specific Home Office funded Prevent projects that mitigate local threats. This includes leading the commissioning and delivery of the Prevent community initiatives, monitoring milestones and completing financial and performance returns to central government.


• Play a key role in shaping the Community Safety partnership with the Borough Command Unit on a range of ‘Trust and Transparency’ related activities, including implementation of ‘Trust and Transparency’ action plan, as well as broadening of the plan to include cohesion related issues and community engagement.


• Engage with a range of local faith and community groups in order to build community involvement and confidence in the Prevent Delivery Plan, including partnership building with internal and external stakeholders.


• Work in partnership with the Prevent Coordinator to support facilitate of the ‘Protect and Prepare’ steering group protocols, arrangements and interventions; liaise with HR and OD to design initiatives to raise awareness of ‘Protect and Prepare’ across internal council services.


• Development of innovative and effective policies and strategies to achieve key corporate priorities and outcomes in relation to Cohesion, Women’s Safety in Public Realm, Hate Crime and Counter-Terrorism.


• Work in partnership with Communications Team to support development of successful messaging, narrative and campaigns relevant to the role.


• Attend relevant strategic steering groups, meetings and partnership forums as and when required.

The above is a brief overview of the role, details and specification will be provided should you be successful. If interested in this position, please send your CV to Jahker Miah at Coyle Personnel Ltd.