DSVA/VAWG Strategy & Commissioning Lead (Hybrid)

Nottingham City Council; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Great leave entitlement

Generous pension scheme

Job summary

Nottingham City Council invites applications for the DSVA/VAWG Strategy and Commissioning Manager role. You will provide strategic leadership for the Council’s approach to Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls, and support partnerships across Nottingham and the region.

You will lead on contracting and commissioning to improve DSVA/VAWG outcomes for survivors and communities, while guiding a multidisciplinary team and ensuring robust planning and decision

Qualifications

• Specialist DSVA/VAWG gender informed expertise and experience of developing and delivering innovative ideas collaboratively.
• Diplomacy and ability to speak truth to power to deliver strategy, policy and outcomes.
• Experience of survivor focused 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.
• Experience of line management of an expert team, and of managing partnership and project teams collaboratively through change.
• Evidence of driving improvements for survivors including holding perpetrators to account through collaboration with the local DSVA/VAWG partnership.
• A thorough knowledge and understanding of DSVA/VAWG legislation and local, regional and national DSVA/VAWG strategy, policy, research and good practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the Council’s approach to DSVA/VAWG and support strategic partnerships across Nottingham and the region.
• Lead on delivery of partnership commissioning to improve DSVA/VAWG outcomes for survivors, communities and perpetrators.
• Provide effective leadership to the DSVA/VAWG team and to multi-disciplinary project teams and partnerships, ensuring effective planning and decision making.

Job description

Nottingham City Council invites applications for the DSVA/VAWG Strategy and Commissioning Manager role. You will provide strategic leadership for the Council’s approach to Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls, and support partnerships across Nottingham and the region.

You will lead on contracting and commissioning to improve DSVA/VAWG outcomes for survivors and communities, while guiding a multidisciplinary team and ensuring robust planning and decision