DSVA/VAWG Strategy & Commissioning Lead

Golearnleicestershire; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham City Council is seeking a DSVA/VAWG Strategy and Commissioning Manager to lead the council’s approach to Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls. The role will drive strategic partnership commissioning across Nottingham and the region, delivering improved outcomes for survivors and communities.

You will lead the DSVA/VAWG team, oversee multi‑disciplinary project work, ensure effective planning and decision making, and maximise funding opportunities

Qualifications

• Specialist DSVA/VAWG gender informed expertise and experience of developing and delivering innovative ideas collaboratively.
• Diplomacy and be able to appropriately speak truth to power to deliver strategy, policy and outcomes for all citizens in Nottingham.
• Experience of survivor focussed commissioning and performance management of DSVA/VAWG services to deliver DSVA Strategy and Statutory Duties.
• Experience of developing and delivering a strategic approach to identifying and exploiting funding opportunities to commission specialist DSVA/VAWG services.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the delivery of partnership commissioning to improve DSVA/VAWG outcomes for all survivors, communities and perpetrators in our diverse city of Nottingham.
• Provide effective leadership to the DSVA/VAWG team, and to multi-disciplinary project teams and partnerships, ensuring effective planning and decision making.
• Drive improvements for survivors by holding perpetrators to account through collaboration with the local DSVA/VAWG partnership.

Skills

DSVA/VAWG expertise

Strategic leadership

Funding opportunities

Line management

Policy knowledge

Job description

Nottingham City Council is seeking a DSVA/VAWG Strategy and Commissioning Manager to lead the council’s approach to Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls. The role will drive strategic partnership commissioning across Nottingham and the region, delivering improved outcomes for survivors and communities.

You will lead the DSVA/VAWG team, oversee multi‑disciplinary project work, ensure effective planning and decision making, and maximise funding opportunities