Director –Violence Against Women & Girls – (VAWG)
Home Office
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Job summary
The Public Safety Group is responsible for a set of outcomes which are fundamental to national life. Our role is to keep the public safe by cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, protecting the vulnerable and ensuring that our police, fire and rescue services are as efficient and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services. To deliver this, we develop and implement policy, provide funding deliver legislation. We make the most of innovation, data and partnerships to prevent crime, protect the vulnerable, and tackle the highest harm crimes. We work with our partners in law enforcement, across government, the voluntary and community sector, local authorities, and more widely.
The Safer Streets Mission is the vehicle to drive delivery across government to halve violence against women and girls, halve knife crime, and restore confidence in the policing and justice system to record levels. It is an opportunity to deliver transformative change to society, addressing both harm and confidence in parallel by taking a whole-system approach. These are ambitious aims that will require a dedicated coalition of Government, public services, the private sector, charities, and the public themselves, to be successful in achieving them.
Job description
This role will focus on delivering the Government’s commitments to halving Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) by 2034 and will be responsible for brigading the Home Office’s response to crimes that are frequently hidden, unreported and often disproportionately impact our most vulnerable members of society - working closely with Other Government Departments to achieve this.
The Director will lead units focused on tackling these crimes such as violence against women and girls, domestic abuse, child sexual abuse, public protection, and be the Senior Responsible Officer for the Multi-Agency Public Protection System (MAPPS).
MAPPS is a £56m Home Office-led project to replace the ViSOR database, which is the main IT tool for the management of serious offenders used by the police, probation and prison services across the UK since 2005 - informally, the "Sex Offenders Register". MAPPS will allow more than 60 agencies across the UK to access data securely and assist in the management of sex offenders, terrorist offenders and serious organised crime.
The postholder will report into the PSG Director General and be part of a senior leadership team consisting of nine SCS PB2s. At appointment they will lead around 130 staff organised into the following business units: Interpersonal Abuse Unit; Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Unit, Public Protection Unit; and the SRO for MAPPS.
Senior Sponsor for the Security Industry Authority (SIA) and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), and high-profile independent office holders such as the Independent Monitor for the Disclosure and Barring Service (IM) and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner (DAC).
Key responsibilities include:
This is a highly challenging and key role in protecting some of the most vulnerable members of our society. The policy portfolio is fascinating and high profile with a diverse and vibrant stakeholder community across government, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, charity and civil society organisations, international partners and industry.
There is significant ministerial interest in the policy and operational outcomes across this portfolio.
- The Director will be responsible for one of the Safer Streets Mission deliverables which is to decrease VAWG crimes by 50% by 2034.
- Deliver manifesto commitments on VAWG and wider ministerial priorities on time and to budget.
- Support and challenge the police to transform how they prevent and respond to VAWG.
- Ensure that VAWG is represented in, and complimentary with, wider work on policing reform and crime reduction.
- Ensure the successful development at pace of high-quality legislation relating to VAWG, including but not limited to existing commitments on measures relating to sex offender management or spiking.
- Oversee the policy work to tackle child sexual abuse including delivery against recommendations from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, driving an effective criminal justice approach and influencing tech companies to promote the protection of children online.
- Successful delivery and implementation of the Mutli-Agency Public Protection System on time and within existing budget, working in partnership with DDAT and more than 60 public safety organisations across the entirety of the UK.
- As Senior Sponsor, ensure the successful alignment of Arm's Length Bodies to wider Home Office priorities, and overall successful sponsorship of those bodies and office holders.
- Develop and lead relationships with third-sector VAWG organisations, including delivery and scrutiny of grants in line with Ministerial priorities.
- Lead very well a team of c130 people working in the Interpersonal Abuse Unit, Public Protection Unit, Child Sexual Exploitation Unit, and those working on the Mutli-Agency Public Protection System.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:
- First rate analytical and strategic leadership skills with exceptional judgement and integrity.
- A significant track record of visible, inclusive and results-focused leadership, even in tough contexts, which inspires, develops and motivates staff to deliver and thrive.
- Experience of delivering at pace and getting things done under pressure, including driving a performance culture and improvement.
- Excellent personal impact, resilience and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build sustainable relationships with a diverse range of partners and influence without authority.
- Strong awareness of financial management and delivering value for money, with a demonstrable ability to engage effectively with both finance professionals and senior leaders.
- Experience of working on Violence Against Women and Girls.
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
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Selection process details
1.A CV - setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years;
2.A Statement of Suitability – (limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.
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Job contact :
- Name : Jaee Samant
- Email : publicsafetydg@homeoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : HORCSCSRecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk
