City of Culture - Lead for Community Engagement, Partnerships Development, Problem Solving and Evaluation- Fixed Term/Secondment until end of 2021
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Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Essential
Desirable
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to develop and sustain a range of partnership relationships. This includes the ability to plan and deliver presentations to a range of audiences.
- Clear knowledge and understanding of the diversity and inclusion strategy for West Midlands Police and how this links to building engagement in our communities
- Skilled in engaging a diverse range of stakeholders and enabling effective collaboration which draws upon a diverse range of skill sets.
- Able to use a range of communication and influencing techniques and methods to successfully negotiate, collaborate and / or effect change.
- Able to lead, develop and motivate a diverse team; creating strong engagement with the function’s performance objectives and with Force values and behaviours.
- Able to engage a variety of audiences through a range of media to inform and / or persuade.
- Understand the concept of problem solving in communities, working alongside partners and communities in order to be able to support deliver short, medium and longer term positive change.
- Experience of developing volunteer opportunities to increase the number of volunteers and active citizens
- Knowledgeable and competent in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Powerpoint.
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise tasks.
- Able to hold themselves and the wider team to account for performance and behaviours.
Desirable
- Ability to complete objective setting to medium and long-term cycles, co-ordinating a complex range of activities and balancing competing needs.
- Knowledge and understanding of working in a formal project setting.
- Able to drive cultural and operational change across a diverse team, creating a culture of innovation and creativity.
Additional Information:
- Successful applicants will be subject to appropriate vetting
- Successful applicants will be expected to be committed to remain in the post until the delivery of the City of Culture in 2021 and for post event reporting unless under exceptional circumstances.
West Midlands Police are currently undertaking a long term review of staff pay and conditions. The grade, pay and other terms of employment are therefore subject to review and may change in the future.
West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.
Diversity and Inclusion Vision: Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities.
