About The Role We're looking for a passionate Community Safety professional who is ambitious to create solutions, tackle community issues and improve the lives of residents, including the coordination of the work of the West Oxfordshire Community Safety Partnership (CSP). This is an exciting opportunity to work in partnership with a wide range of agencies including police, local authorities, voluntary organisations and community groups. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing and implementing strategies, analysing crime data, delivering prevention initiatives and ensuring the Council meets its statutory responsibilities relating to community safety. The role will take a strategic approach and develop strong partnerships so as to improve community safety and reduce the fear of crime in communities. Your contribution will be to develop strong relationships with a wide variety of partners across the Community Safety Partnership to jointly create and oversee an action plan and enable the delivery of key interventions around priorities such as Domestic Abuse and Antisocial behaviour. You will operate strategically and be the subject matter expert for the Council with a focus on finding ways to prevent and reduce crime and increase feelings of safety in West Oxfordshire. Some of your responsibilities: Coordinate the West Oxfordshire Community Safety Partnership, including producing and publishing the CSP Strategy, Action Plan and Annual Report. Maintain operational liaison with local, countywide and regional community safety partners to respond to emerging issues and intelligence. Act as the Council lead for PREVENT, including Single Point of Contact responsibilities for counter-terrorism. Prepare and present reports for Council committees including Executive and Scrutiny. Deliver community safety initiatives and campaigns with partner organisations, including budget monitoring You will need A qualification in your area of expertise equivalent to a degree, in Community Safety or a strongly related area Two years experience of working within a Community Safety or strongly related environment. Good understanding of crime, crime reduction and the issues surrounding community safety and partnership working. Experience in project management, managing meetings and report writing Experience of working with others, working flexibly and building relationships with a variety of stakeholders For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification. Special Conditions Ability to travel BPSS You will be expected to work reasonable additional hours in line with the needs of the service What we can do for you Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role) 27 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays, which increases to 30 days after five years service and 33 days following 10 years continuous service In addition you will have an extra two volunteering days a year for you to support a charity of your choice Renewed again for another year there is a Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care Generous contributory local government pension scheme Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues Cycle to work scheme Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with significant tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements About The Organisation West Oxfordshire District Council is a forward-looking council, putting residents first and working in partnership to support our communities. We are delivering an ambitious Council Plan for the district that is focused on important local priorities including affordable housing, climate and ecological action, helping our economy to grow and building communities. We also provide a range of important local services that make a positive impact to our district on a daily basis including planning, housing, waste and recycling collections, leisure centres, community safety and environmental health. Joining West Oxfordshire District Council you will be helping us achieve our goals for the district and play a part in supporting our communities, our businesses and our environment. Accredited of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. Our organisationis committed to meeting its statutory and moral duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people under 18 years of age and adults at risk who are the recipients of its services and/or activities. Safer recruitment practices are applied to all job vacancies. Successful candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment medical questionnaire; provide references; proof of identity; nationality and immigration status; three years employment or education history (if applicable) and, in some cases, verification of criminal record.