Community Cohesion & Resilience Manager

Organisation : London Borough of Waltham Forest Salary: PO8 £59,511 - £62,766 Contract Type: Full-time Permanent Working hours per week: 36 Application Deadline: 27/08/26 Proposed Interview Date(s): W/C 14/09/2026 Reference: 2250 About Us: 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. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment. The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email [email protected] so we can arrange an alternative application method. 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 of the role will be building community confidence, increasing hate crime reporting, enhancing community resilience, and supporting residents to feel safe, connected, and empowered, while contributing to the delivery of the borough’s wider Community Safety priorities. We are a Home Office–licensed sponsor; however, for this specific role we are not able to provide Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. To be considered, you must already hold a form of UK work authorisation that does not require sponsorship. >> Click here to download the Role Profile << Key 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. Qualifications and Requirements: Educated to degree standard or equivalent Relevant professional qualification Expert knowledge of the PREVENT agenda and associated topics Terms and conditions: The below terms and conditions apply to this role: 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; As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English. How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. Equal Opportunity Employer: 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. To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, 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. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy. 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. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview. For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us. Contact Information: If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Ana Figueira at [email protected] or 07970769073. If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at [email protected] . 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