VAWG Service Manager - Internal Applicants Only

JOB DESCRIPTION

***Internal Applicants Only***

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: PO10 £66,651 - £70,152

Contract Type: Full-time Permanent

Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline:07/05/2025

Proposed Interview Date(s): TBC

Reference:1725

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 London's Good Work Standard employers. 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.

The Council's preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.

About the role:

This role leads the strategic direction and delivery of the borough's Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) services, ensuring effective implementation across the Community Safety Partnership. The postholder will oversee staff responsible for service delivery, commission key support services such as refuge accommodation and therapeutic care, and drive innovative community-based initiatives, including bystander training and youth engagement. They will also promote reporting and support through tools like the Safe Streets App. In addition to VAWG responsibilities, the role manages wider community safety projects and business transformation initiatives to improve outcomes for residents, while supporting senior leadership in achieving the Council's overarching goals.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership and day to day management of the VAWG service, ensuring that delivery is driven forward, risks are managed and programme integrity maintained
• Providing policy advice and support to Chief Officers and Elected Members in relation to VAWG
• Developing and providing policy advice and support to Community Safety Partnership (CSP) programme board Chairs on VAWG related matters
• Creating and developing a clear and plausible strategy and approach to delivering VAWG and other associated outcomes
• Leading the planning and designing of the VAWG service and other associated Community Safety programmes
• Managing the VAWG service budget, practising good financial management over all resources provided through various internal and external funding arrangements
• Oversee the delivery of the service which will include supervisory and line management responsibilities (3 staff)
• Leading the commissioning of VAWG projects in partnership with colleagues from Strategic Commissioning, ensuring effective procurement and contract management
• Managing the borough's relationship with MOPAC, the MPS and specialist VAWG providers. Building and developing relationships with partners to deliver effective co-operation and productive working relationships with the Borough's named contact within these organisations

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Educated to degree level
• Expert knowledge of and delivery within the VAWG agenda - local, national and international experience.
• Expert understanding of legislation, risk level, emerging threats and how international/cultural pressures impact upon the localised agenda
• Expert knowledge of the most at risk groups within the VAWG agenda with knowledge and understanding on how to engage with these groups
• Skill and experience in translating national policy and legislation to local context
• Experience and skills in presenting information to partners in an easy and understandable manner
• Experience and skill in drafting briefing notes and other communications for a variety of audiences
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Ability and experience of staff supervision
• Ability to manage a range of budgets from external providers
• Skills and experience in preparing and being granted funding from external providers
• Excellent leadership and management skills for both line managed staff and external providers
• Good ICT skills including the use of all MS based software
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with experience of escalating and resolving complex issues and needs
• Ability to manage sensitive information confidently and confidentially
• Knowledge and awareness of the sensitivities of this work

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;

Satisfactory declaration of interest;

This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;

Satisfactory DBS check;

This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.

As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.

How to Apply:

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 individual's 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.

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Ana Figueira, Acting Assistant Director Community Safety & Programmes at ana.figueira@walthamforest.gov.uk 07970769073.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.

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