NCVPP- National Strategic Safeguarding Partnership Coordinator x2

Job summary

This post can be based at our sites in either Ryton-on-Dunsmore (CV8 3EN), Durham (DL15 8DS), Harrogate (HG1 1EP) or London (E14 4PU). Hybrid working opportunities can also be discussed prior to you taking up your post. This role is also available as a designated homeworking role.

​​This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.​

About us:

Our mission is: Leadership, Standards, Performance. This guides our work with individuals, forces, and policing partners towards our vision. We exist to support police officers, police staff and volunteers to deliver the best service to the public. Only through high quality leadership, consistent standards and continual performance improvement can everyone in policing reach their full potential. Our mission guides our work with individual, forces and partners towards our vision.

Although we are a relatively small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers’ network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

Additional Information:

This role is available until 31st March 2027 as a fixed term appointment for external candidates or as a secondment for colleagues employed directly by the College, Civil Service or police forces.

Job description

National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) & Public Protection (PP)

Would you like to join a skilled and dedicated team of professionals who are committed to reducing the prevalence of VAWG and Public Protection (PP) offences across England and Wales, as part of a wider-system approach?

This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to join the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls & Public Protection (NCVPP) within the College of Policing. The NCVPP provides support to forces in tackling the threat of VAWG and PP and improving our services to victims. You will also work with academics, victim groups and across Government to support our ambition and to ensure our work reflects the lived experiences of diverse communities.

We are working to continually train and upskill our officers and staff with the specialist knowledge and expertise required to carry out their roles effectively. We also continue to develop programmes, expanding on existing best practice with a focus on perpetrators and preventing life-long harm to victims.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a nationally significant programme with real-world impact.

• Work in a dynamic, supportive, and mission-driven environment.

• Contribute to shaping policy and practice at the highest level informed by the best possible evidence.

At the NCVPP, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture where diversity is valued, equity is embedded, and every voice matters. We champion fair recruitment, foster belonging, and integrate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) principles across our research, practice, and partnerships to ensure our work reflects and serves the diverse communities we protect.

We welcome applications from candidates of all ethnicities, faiths, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities and socio-economic backgrounds.

The NCVPP is hosted by the College of Policing in partnership with the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC).

For more information about the NCVPP, visit: National centre for violence against women and girls and public protection , College of Policing

This role will provide professional leadership and strategic vision to the NCVPP and Operation Beaconport. You will influence strategic issues in policing to build and translate evidence into effective practice, guidance and learning. You will also be responsible for promoting and enabling policing’s effective engagement within local multi-agency strategic safeguarding arrangements, including Community Safety Partnerships, Child Safeguarding Partnerships and Adult Safeguarding Boards.​

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

Due to our status as Public Servants, we are not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process. Therefore, while successful candidates can transfer in on their existing terms and conditions, any subsequent transfer out of the College to the Civil Service cannot be guaranteed on existing terms and conditions, and new starter/modernised terms may apply.

The College embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we comply with the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and apply the minimum selection criteria at sift stage of the recruitment process. Where necessary, we may increase the minimum selection criteria to support the effective management of the recruitment process, while ensuring our approach remains fair, transparent and consistent with our Disability Confident commitments.

Our vetting

If you are successful at interview, you will be required to undertake pre-employment security checks. You will be sent a security questionnaire which must be accessed within 24 hours.

Please note, these checks can take up to 10 weeks. You will only be offered a start date after the checks have been completed. If the outcome of these checks is not satisfactory, your recommendation for employment will be withdrawn.

Person specification

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• ​​Leading national policing’s efforts to deliver key NCVPP and Operation Beaconport deliverables. This will include implementing new legislation and guidance to improve safeguarding outcomes for children, adults and families, often acting as part of the national and local chief officer teams.​

• ​​Engaging, building and influencing relationships with national, regional and force level policing stakeholders providing strategic vision, leadership and accountability, and driving system change.​

• ​​Developing, managing and maintaining effective strategic safeguarding partner relationships and plans at national level (e.g. Government, DfE, Local Authority and Health) to support implementation activities, build trust and confidence in policing and influence wider policy and practice development across partners.​

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

• ​​Significant recent experience of operating as a strategic leader within policing (minimum of superintendent level or equivalent).​

• ​​Experience of effective police leadership within community safety partnerships, adult safeguarding boards and/or child strategic partnership arrangements.​

• ​​Strong understanding of the cri