Description

Community Safety Engagement Manager

PO7: £53,490 pa inc LW rising in annual increments to £56,640 pa

Secondment/Fixed Term: 2 Years

The Community Safety engagement manager will play a vital role in Lambeth’s vision for a safer borough. The successful role holder will act as our lead officer in engaging our local communities to work in partnership with local residents and community groups to design solutions and respond to local community safety concerns with a range of partners and services.

The role will be responsible for responsible for building, leading and developing community engagement programme, Lambeth Made Communities to ensure it delivers its aim to build community resilience, improve community safety, and reduce violence.

The ideal candidate will have a real passion and will be someone with appropriate experience in engaging and working with diverse communities to deliver shared outcomes. This is a senior role with the postholder having the confidence and credibility to work with multiple stakeholders to meet the needs and expectations of a diverse borough.

Lambeth Council is a vibrant workplace in an iconic borough. With a new Chief Executive this is a particularly exciting time to develop our engagement of residents to shape our responses crime and violence in the borough. This is the opportunity to develop an inclusive approach, understanding what matters to our communities and recognising that not all areas in our borough will have similar concerns when it comes to community safety.

We want to have honest and open conversations with our communities about how we can work together to improve the safety of Lambeth and help support long term, community-led change. We believe residents and community groups need to be at the centre of everything we do.

Successful candidates will be asked to apply for an Enhanced check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Further information about the DBS can be found at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs

For more information about the role, please contact Anthony Lewis, Assistant Director for Community Safety at [email protected]

Can you help us deliver our vision?

To apply, please upload your CV and a supporting statement explicitly evidencing how you meet the shortlisting criteria marked with an “A” on the job description (max two sides of A4).

Job Description and Specification

Closing Date: Sunday 10th July 2022 at midnight

Interviews: week commencing 18th July 2022

Lambeth aims for quality services and equal opportunities for all and is committed to safer recruitment.

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Name:LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

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