Community Safety Manager – Thematic

Overview

In this role you lead the delivery of key community safety priorities across Birmingham, aligning multi-agency partners to achieve shared outcomes. You’ll translate strategic priorities into practical, delivery-focused plans for a designated CSP theme such as SOC or VAWG. The role focuses on coordinating partnerships, shaping evidence-based responses, and driving improvement at pace. You’ll work to make Birmingham’s communities safer through collaborative, data-informed strategy and delivery.

Pay / Benefits

• Membership of West Midlands Pension Fund
• Enhanced Holiday Entitlement – 30 days
• My Rewards Scheme – discounts
• Health and wellbeing support – EAP and counselling

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of core community safety priorities (SOC, ASB, VAWG, safeguarding, vulnerability) across partners
• Coordinate across policing, health, housing, social care, and voluntary sector to drive collaborative action
• Use data and intelligence to identify risks and shape strategic responses with measurable impact
• Develop and monitor action plans, performance frameworks, and improvement programmes
• Lead complex projects and commissioning activities with governance and value-for-money oversight
• Influence senior stakeholders and provide reports and advice to support decision-making
• Develop strategies and innovative approaches to improve community safety

Key requirements

• Significant experience in community safety, criminal justice, safeguarding, or related field with proven positive outcomes
• Proven success leading programmes or thematic priorities within multi-agency environments
• Strong knowledge of community safety legislation and responsibilities (Crime and Disorder Act, safeguarding, ASB, serious violence prevention)
• Excellent partnership-building, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
• Strong analytical skills using data and insight to inform decisions and drive improvements
• Outstanding communication skills for reports, briefings, and presentations to senior leaders
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced setting

• collaborative mindset
• strategic leadership
• stakeholder influence
• data analysis
• intelligence-led decision making
• governance and performance frameworks

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