Role: Community Engagement Coordinator

Department: Corporate Development Branch (CDB)

Scale: SC6

Salary: £30,783 - £32,772

Location: Pearson Park, Hull

Hours:  37 Per week (Full-Time) The role will require you to travel around the force area

Contract: Permanent

The Community Engagement Co-ordinator within the Community Safety Unit is a pivotal role within Humberside Police which involves developing existing events initiatives and working with partner agencies to come up with new opportunities.  Your main responsibility will be the Lifestyle Project and Safer Schools Partnership. 

Lifestyle is our flagship Youth Engagement Project which we are proud to have run for over 30 years.  Young people aged between 10 to 18 years are challenged to form a team and decide on a community project to help others in the community.  Promoted in over 400 schools by Neighbourhood Policing Teams, it successfully attracts thousands of young people every year.  It is expected that you will be able to coordinate large scale projects including the sourcing of sponsorship from corporate companies.  You will need experience of building relationships and be an excellent communicator to be able to deal with corporate companies and young people from seldom heard communities and challenging backgrounds.

The Safer Schools Partnership involves working with schools, colleges, and other partners within our region with the overall purpose of ensuring young people, staff, parents, and visitors to the school have a safe environment in which to study, work, and visit. The partnership provides a fantastic opportunity to build more positive relationships between young people, police and partners and encourages them to develop respect for themselves and their community.  This involves ensuring contracts are signed in every school each year and working with the Office of the Police Crime Commissioner, schools, and other partner agencies to develop and build products that are delivered in schools.

The successful candidate will report to the Community Safety Sergeant and will be able to draw upon support from the wider Community Safety Team during the busiest periods of the projects.  It is expected that you would be able to work as part of a team supporting others Community Engagement Co-ordinators with their projects during their busiest periods.

An understanding of engagement with seldom heard communities and young people is essential to the role, the ability to manage change, as is the ability to manage budgets and plan to ensure projects are successful and engage with our most deprived areas of the communities.  It is also desirable that you have experience of working in an education setting or youth work.

Key Responsibilities:

• The day to day running of and attendance at community engagement events, proactively engaging with hard-to-reach individuals and groups, promoting awareness of the Police Service
• The implementation, monitoring and evaluation of efficient processes and procedures within the Community Safety Unit.
• Designs, produces, implements, and monitors attraction strategies as appropriate for the Unit.
• Attends community engagement events, proactively engaging with hard-to-reach individuals and groups to promote awareness and foster partnerships with local authorities, business, voluntary sector and communities.
• Monitors finances throughout the year, producing management information and income/expenditure breakdowns for sponsors and potential sponsors.

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position please refer to the attached role requirement.

What the role requires:

• Experience of working in a customer orientated field
• Experience of working in a clerical field, incorporating record keeping, telephone work etc
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to work with minimum supervision when required.
• Carries out tasks in an accurate and methodical manner with an eye for detail.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to prioritise workload.

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position please refer to the attached role requirement.

Perks of working for Humberside Police:

From great perks, agile working and professional development, we want you to have the best possible journey throughout your Humberside Police Career.

Our Police Staff work extremely hard, which is why we are proud to offer a host of reward and recognition schemes. Whether it’s Cycle to Work scheme, Gym and health schemes, we have the perks ready for you to benefit from.

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Further Perks:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Training and development opportunities
• Coaching & Mentoring Scheme
• Access to a range of occupational health facilities (Discounted Healthcare, 1st year free and 2nd year subsidised)
• Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
• Flexible/Hybrid working where applicable.
• Generous pension scheme
• Blue Light Discount
• Access to the forces onsite gyms
• Free on-site car parking

Pre – Employment Checks and Eligibility:

• Internal applicants MUST have completed a successful 6 month probationary period and tenure (if applicable) before applying for another role within the force.
• Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria of at least 3 years continuous residency in the UK to apply for roles with Humberside Police.
• Successful candidates will undergo a vetting procedure pre-requisite of employment.
• Tattoo’s will be reviewed as a part of the recruitment process to ensure we maintain a level of professional standards and to make sure the images do not cause offence or are unacceptable.

Contact point for applicants:

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact us at recruiting@humberside.pnn.police.uk

How to apply for the role:

To apply for the role, please click the ‘Apply’ button below.

Please note, you must wait 3 months before submitting another application if you have applied for THIS role within the last 3 months.

For Information & Advice on completing an online application, please follow the link below.

 https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/triagetool?triage-select=Understanding+the+recruitment+process

Closing Date: Monday 22nd April 2024 at 23:55

Interview date: TBC

It is not likely that closing dates will be extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and would need to be with the permission of the Recruitment Manager and Line Manager of the role.

The Recruitment Manager can authorise to close any vacancy before the closing date stated on the advert.

Attachments:

• Role Requirement
• Guidance for completing your application.
• Recruitment Brochure
• Preferred candidate roadmap

Humberside Police welcome applications from underrepresented communities.  For further information on positive action within Humberside Police, please visit the positive action page:

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