Applications for this role are restricted to existing officers or staff of a UK police force or UK policing organisation.

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We’re the professional body for the police service in England and Wales. We work with everyone in policing to set standards, to share knowledge and good practice and to support the development of police officers and staff. Our mission is to drive a consistent approach across policing where the public and the service expect it, to boost professionalism and to improve leadership at every level.

Although we're a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers’ network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

We look forward to reading your application for the role of Senior Policy Manager – Operation Soteria.

This post sits within the Engagement and Implementation community at the College of Policing, and will deliver workstreams as set by the Head of Violence Against Women and Girls and Operation Soteria Programme Lead.

Operation Soteria is a national Home Office funded research and change programme. It is a collaborative programme intended to transform the police response to rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO). The work of the programme to date has resulted in many deliverables. One main deliverable has been the production of a National Operating Model (NOM), which is currently hosted on the Knowledge Hub.

We are recruiting for a secondment until March 2025 for a candidate of the rank of Chief Inspector or equivalent to help to define the work needed to evolve the learning from Soteria and assist the College to support policing to deliver transformational change. 

We need an experienced manager, with a track record of delivery. This is a great development opportunity to help influence and guide the work needed to transition the NOM into the College and help work with a wider team to ensure key aspects are captured and their longevity and accessibility for policing is achieved in the medium and longer term.  Your role will be to develop a plan of works, a resource profile, provide consultancy and expertise around the subject matter, and to ensure the sequencing of current and future activities by identifying relationships and dependencies between the College Soteria work and wider work on public protection.

Two informal drop in sessions will be hosted via Teams on 30 April 2024 between 10:30-11:30 and 1, May 2024 14:00-15:00, where you will receive a presentation from the Soteria lead, input from the Policy and Standards Lead for the Engagement and Implementation Community, this will also give you an opportunity to ask questions about the role.  If you would like to attend one of these events please email College Recruitment Recruitment@college.police.uk for details.

We know that it may be a challenge for forces to release an entire FTE to be able to allow you to pursue this exciting opportunity, therefore we will happily consider part time and job share as the worksteams can be split to allow for more than one candidate to fill the role.  In having discussions about force support for your release, please do highlight the invaluable opportunity this role presents to increase your knowledge around the national strategic approach to public protection, which will put you in a position to bring useful knowledge back into you force around a key strategic priority for policing.

Some of your responsibilities will include:
•    Developing and maintaining relationships with senior external stakeholders, ensuring their views and perspectives are considered when representing the College at relevant national groups and practitioner networks including, but not limited to, Forces, NPCC, Home Office, HMICFRS, MoJ, APCC, Staff and Police Associations and other professional bodies such as academia, to engage their support and participation in the development and delivery of smarter practice, continuous improvement and peer support initiatives across policing.   
•    Leading, designing, developing and managing short/medium term projects specially commissioned for evidence-based responses to policing problems that support the implementation of business priorities, influence change and drive efficiency and effectiveness in policing.
•    Providing direct support to senior stakeholders, forces and partners relating to the provision of best practise, including evidence led continuous improvement, business change, cultural and behavioural change, leadership, professional development, and workforce transformation.  

To be successful in this role you’ll need:
•    Proven experience of driving improvement within policing by working with internal and external stakeholders in positions of influence.
•    The ability to support and embed change, demonstrating ability to influence and drive the right culture and behaviours. 
•    Experience of problem solving and taking an evidence-based approach to developing and establishing standards

Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Experience of leading, designing, developing and managing short/ medium term projects.
• Strong ability to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and work collaboratively to achieve objectives.
• What is your previous experience of managing and coordinating high risk projects and workstreams?
• What is your level of knowledge around rape and serious sexual offences, investigations and victim aspects of policing?