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About the Role

The Community Cohesion and Resilience Manager will provide strategic leadership for Waltham Forest’s Community Cohesion and Resilience service, ensuring the effective delivery of community safety, cohesion, hate crime, and Prevent priorities. The role will lead the development and implementation of a new Community Cohesion model that embeds the Hate Crime agenda and fulfils the Council’s statutory Prevent Duty responsibilities. A key focus will be building community confidence, increasing hate crime reporting, enhancing community resilience, and supporting residents to feel safe, connected, and empowered.

Responsibilities

Lead the strategic delivery and development of the Council’s Prevent, Community Cohesion, and Resilience agenda, ensuring compliance with statutory duties and national guidance.
Translate national policy, legislation, and emerging government priorities relating to Prevent, counter-extremism, community cohesion, and hate crime into effective local strategies, policies, and operational practices.
Provide expert advice, guidance, and consultation to internal services and external partners on Prevent-related matters, including safeguarding thresholds and pathways.
Represent the Council at Channel Panels, multi-agency meetings, and strategic partnership forums, ensuring coordinated interventions and effective risk management.
Lead on the development and implementation of initiatives that increase community resilience to radicalisation, extremism, and hate crime, promoting strong and cohesive communities.
Develop and maintain effective partnerships with statutory agencies, community organisations, faith groups, schools, and other stakeholders to support community safety objectives.
Oversee work to improve awareness, reporting, and responses to hate crime, ensuring victims are appropriately supported and preventative approaches are embedded across services.
Prepare and deliver high-quality briefing papers, reports, presentations, and communications for elected members, senior leaders, partners, and community audiences.
Manage, motivate, and supervise staff, ensuring high performance, professional development, and the delivery of quality services.
Lead the planning, monitoring, and management of service budgets, ensuring resources are used effectively and deliver value for money.
Contribute to and support the delivery of wider Community Safety and Violence Reduction priorities, working collaboratively across partnership structures.
Utilise experience of working within a Violence Reduction Partnership to inform preventative approaches, early intervention activity, and evidence-based service development.

Requirements

Educated to degree standard or equivalent
Relevant professional qualification
Expert knowledge of the PREVENT agenda and associated topics
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks
Satisfactory declaration of interest
This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/or vulnerable adults
Satisfactory DBS check
Must be able to speak fluent English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role.
Must already hold a form of UK work authorization that does not require sponsorship.

Skills

Community safety
Cohesion
Hate crime
Prevent priorities
Community Cohesion model development
Hate Crime agenda embedding
Prevent Duty responsibilities fulfillment
Community confidence building
Hate crime reporting enhancement
Community resilience enhancement
Resident safety, connection, and empowerment support
Strategic leadership
Policy translation
Expert advice and consultation
Partnership development
Victim support
Reporting and communication
Staff management and supervision
Budget management
Violence Reduction Partnership experience

Location

London Borough of Waltham Forest

Work Type

Full-time
Permanent

Education Level

Degree standard or equivalent
Relevant professional qualification

Salary/Compensations

£59,511 - £62,766

Benefits

Healthy, fair and inclusive workplace
Fair pay and conditions
Workplace well-being
Skills and progression
Diversity and recruitment
Flexible working options

About the Company

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities.
Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers.
We are a Home Office–licensed sponsor.

Equal Opportunity

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff.
The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population.
We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace.
The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.
Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
The council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting.
The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council.