Safer Communities Partnerships Lead

London Borough of Hounslow; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The London Borough of Hounslow is seeking a Safer Communities Partnerships Lead to develop and deliver a range of programmes, including the Serious Violence Duty and initiatives supported by MOPAC and the Violence Reduction Unit.

You will work in a dynamic partnership team, liaising with Police, Probation, health and the voluntary sector to reduce crime and improve outcomes for residents.

Qualifications

• Experience of developing, coordinating or delivering partnership projects or programmes that improve outcomes for communities.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with a range of partners, stakeholders and agencies to achieve shared goals.
• Experience of monitoring performance, managing projects or funding programmes, and reporting on outcomes.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce strategies, action plans, reports, briefings and funding bids.
• Skills to analyse information, identify priorities and develop solutions to address community safety challenges and resident concerns.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver partnership programmes to improve community safety and outcomes for residents.
• Coordinate initiatives under the Serious Violence Duty and external funding from organisations such as MOPAC and the Violence Reduction Unit and manage related reporting.

Skills

Partnership project delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Performance monitoring

Written communications

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Job description

About us at Hounslow

We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here .

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Safer Communities as a Safer Communities Partnerships Lead. Working as part of a dynamic partnership team, you will play a key role in developing and delivering a range of programmes and projects, including the implementation of the Serious Violence Duty and initiatives supported by MOPAC and the Violence Reduction Unit.

About The Team You'll Be Working In

The Safer Communities Team works with partners across the borough to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour, reoffending and serious violence, helping to keep communities safe and improve outcomes for residents. The team leads on key priorities including the Serious Violence Duty, Community Safety Partnership programmes, violence reduction initiatives and offender management, while securing and managing external funding from organisations such as MOPAC and the Violence Reduction Unit. The successful candidate will join a collaborative team of community safety professionals, report to the Safer Communities Partnership Manager, and work closely with a wide range of partners including the Police, Probation Service, health services and the voluntary sector.

About You

• Experience of developing, coordinating or delivering partnership projects or programmes that improve outcomes for communities.
• You have an bility to build effective working relationships with a range of partners, stakeholders and agencies to achieve shared goals.
• Experience of monitoring performance, managing projects or funding programmes, and reporting on outcomes.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to produce strategies, action plans, reports, briefings and funding bids.
• You have skills to analyse information, identify priorities and develop solutions to address community safety challenges and resident concerns.
• You work collaboratively and track changes to share with the wider team.
• You can juggle a demanding workload with minimal supervision, producing high quality work.

If the points below resonate with you, we'd love you to put in an application:

• Highly motivated, enthusiastic, and always willing to help and go the extra mile.
• You are dedicated and a team worker.
• Passionate in improving the safety and wellbeing of our residents.

Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don't meet every single requirement?

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can't tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist. So, if you can do most of what we're looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: [e-mail]

Telephone: [phone]

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 21st September 2026.

(please seek line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.)