Job reference: VAC008433.Location: City Hall College Green, City Centre Bristol, BS1 5TR.Contract: Fixed‑term until 31 March 2027.Salary: £39,862 – £41,771 (BG11).Hours: 37 per week, full time.
About the Role
You will play a key role in supporting the delivery of Bristol’s Community Safety Partnership (CSP) Plan, working collaboratively across the Council, local partners, and communities to improve safety outcomes. A central focus of the role is working closely with local communities to understand their priorities, co‑design solutions, and develop tailored, hyper‑local action plans that respond to the unique needs of each area. You will ensure that community insight and lived experience directly influence decision‑making and service delivery.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Champion community voice: Act as a bridge between communities, the Council, and partners – ensuring local concerns and priorities shape strategy, planning, and delivery.
- Deliver hyper‑local solutions: Support communities to reduce crime and disorder through the creation, implementation, and delivery of localised action plans.
- Shape strategy and policy: Influence and support the development and delivery of the Community Safety Partnership Plan and related strategies.
- Lead partnership working: Collaborate with internal teams, statutory partners, and voluntary/community organisations to tackle crime and disorder.
- Drive key priorities: Provide expertise and leadership across community safety themes including serious violence, anti‑social behaviour, domestic abuse, hate crime, modern slavery, and reducing reoffending.
- Monitor impact: Track performance and evaluate the effectiveness of projects, ensuring outcomes are evidence‑based and aligned to strategic objectives.
- Secure funding: Identify and support bids for external funding to enhance community safety initiatives.
- Engage and influence leadership: Ensure senior decision‑makers are informed and engaged in community safety priorities and initiatives.
Why Bristol City Council?
At Bristol City Council we offer a supportive, fast‑moving work environment that encourages skill development and new challenges. Hybrid working arrangements are available, allowing teams to combine home and office work to suit service needs and personal choice. You will receive a rewards package that includes flexible working, flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance.
For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment. For employees who are currently on a fixed‑term contract, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed‑term period to ensure a substantive post to return to. Casual workers or agency staff will be employed on a fixed‑term contract.
We’re a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to any applicant who is disabled and meets the essential criteria in the Person Specification. We will provide reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and ongoing workplace support.
For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, contact gareth.liggins@bristol.gov.uk.
Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves and is committed to diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.
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