Hate Crime Policy Officer - (Fixed-Term)

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability for a Hate Crime Policy Officer to support our partnership arrangements in Glasgow to tackle hate crime on a fixed-term basis for a period of up to 2 years.

NRS brings together a diverse range of Glasgow City Council operational, technical and development services that focus on sustainable transport, place making and delivering essential city services.

If you’re interested in working within a service that touches on all aspects within the city, please read on.

 

Position Details

The post holder will coordinate the work of the Hate Crime Working Group, a multi-agency group consisting of public and third sector organisations who meet quarterly to coordinate work within the city around Hate Crime such as organising training, developing action plans, programmes, and projects. This group is chaired by an elected member and feeds into Glasgow City Council’s Safe Partnership.

The successful candidate will lead in the delivery and evaluation of our partnership Hate Crime Strategy, provide training, presentations to stakeholders and elected members. The post holder will also provide written and verbal reports to the relevant council committee.

The successful candidate will work closely with internal stake holders within Glasgow City Council, partners within the wider public sector such as Police Scotland, Crown Office, and Procurator Fiscal Service, third sector and grass root community groups,  providing draft Hate Crime action plans, reports, training and briefings on hate crime and related matters for consideration by partnership forums and internal groups.

Knowledge of Hate Crime Policy is essential as is high quality written and verbal communication. The successful candidate must understand community planning structures and a history of delivering muti agency programmes.

Further details regarding what this role entails are noted within the Job Description for the post, whilst the Person Specification document confirms the key competencies you are required to demonstrate in your application.

 

Contract Details

Weekly Hours: 35

Work Pattern: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

Annual Salary: £35,220.36 - £42,331.48 on an incremental scale

Hybrid working is available in this role. If you’re shortlisted for the post, we look forward to telling you more about our approach to ensuring needs of the business are met along with flexibility to maintain your work-life balance.

 

Benefits of working with us

Glasgow City Council employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package. If you’re successful in your job application, you’ll have access to these benefits which include:

• 26 days (182 hours) paid annual leave, rising to 29 days (203) hours after 5 years’ service
• 5 days (87.5 hours) paid public holidays each year
• Local government pension scheme
• Life and Personal Accident Insurance
• Occupational Sickness Pay
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Glasgow Credit Union

For guidance on completing your application, and to view other benefits on offer for employees of Glasgow City Council, please visit the following link: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/vacancies.

Application Packs

Alternative Application Packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille, Audio and other languages. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 0141 287 1054. Packs will be posted out to you within 3 working days of receiving your telephone request. Please note the closing date of the job advert to ensure that you give yourself plenty of time to complete your application form and return it to us.

Further Information

Please note that Glasgow City Council is currently completing a Job Evaluation exercise and introducing a new pay and grading structure which may impact on current salaries quoted in job adverts, see
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/jobevaluation

 

For further information about working for us please refer to our website https://glasgow.gov.uk/article/5005/HR-policies