VAWG Partnership Support Officer

The VAWG Partnership Support Officer will contribute to the effective partnership delivery of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) priorities across Richmond and Wandsworth by providing key administrative, communications and training coordination functions within the Community Safety Service VAWG team. The role will focus on facilitating effective and efficient ways of working between the VAWG team and the wider landscape of VAWG partners.

You will provide high-quality business administration, liaising with VAWG partners and management staff to coordinate timely inputs into a range of monitoring, reporting and learning processes including updating the needs assessments. Additionally, you will play a lead role in coordinating the VAWG team training offer and will work closely with VAWG team colleagues and the Communications team to compile and coordinate delivery of an annual VAWG communications plan. You will also provide additional ad hoc support across the team where there are needs, which may involve working outside of office hours and sites.

You will have an excellent understanding of Violence Against Women and Girls and strong organisational, communication and mobilisation skills that can be applied in a complex multi-agency environment. This post will work across Wandsworth and Richmond. We welcome applications from candidates seeking part‑time work. This role requires a minimum commitment of 28 hours per week.

The post holder will undertake proactive and structured outreach to VAWG partners on behalf of the service, to coordinate timely information gathering for partnership delivery plan monitoring returns, contract management returns, funder reporting, and others as may be needed. They will maintain strong operational relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including Housing, Adult and Children’s Services, commissioned domestic abuse services, Police, health partners, and the voluntary sector and provide technical or administrative support at relevant panels and meetings.

The post holder will lead on developing and ensuring delivery of an annual VAWG training plan for the service, through identifying training needs of partnership in coordination with VAWG team colleagues, by commissioning trainers, and by undertaking occasional direct training or presentation delivery where appropriate, as well as lead on consolidating and driving delivery of an annual VAWG communications plan for the service, bringing together communications plans from across the VAWG team. Additionally, they will support needs assessments, surveys, consultations, and maintenance of VAWG webpages, calendars and workflow trackers. The post holder will gather information from departmental colleagues to support senior managers in preparing responses to FOIRs, SARs, Member Enquiries and similar requests.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• A comprehensive and demonstrable understanding of tackling Violence Against Women and Girls and the needs of victims and experience of coordinating complex multi-agency partnership working with both public and voluntary sector stakeholders.
• A strong understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and how these may be promoted within this role.
• Experience participating in safeguarding processes to support VAWG victim-survivors.
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team, organising and prioritising a complex workload.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to mobilise a range of stakeholders, as well as being ICT literate, including proficient use of the Internet and all mainstream MS programs, with the ability to learn others as required.
• Strong business planning and critical thinking skills, with the ability to ensure work is structured to deliver against broader Council or partnership strategies, goals, timeframes and processes.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.

EEO Statement

We are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).