Communication and Campaigns Officer - Serious Violence

Are you a creative thinker with exceptional interpersonal skills, with an ability to engage with individuals and businesses within the community?

We have a unique opportunity to work within the newly formed Violence Reduction Unit, as a Communication and Campaigns Officer, supporting both Derbyshire Constabulary and the multi-partner Serious Violence Partnership until 31st March 2025

As the Communication and Campaigns Officer you will ensure a consistent and co-ordinated approach to communications in relation to the work of the Serious Violence programme and the wider Serious Violence partnership. This will include the development and delivery of communications activities across a range of channels to increase awareness and involvement by partners and communities in our efforts to prevent and reduce serious violence.

You will also play a role in Serious Violence campaigns, working closely with the campaigns lead to source good news stories from across the Serious Violence Programme and publishing those stories through various media channels to promote the work of the Programme.

The role will support a multi-agency approach regarding our response to prevention and reduction of Serious Violence in the City and County area.

As this is a new role it should develop along with the changing demands of the Serious Violence programme

As part of your application, you must provide both a CV and comprehensive supporting statement, stating how you meet the essential/desirable criteria as listed in the job description.

Please note the following:

For applications from Internal Candidates this will be a secondment (subject to their current head of departments approval) and for partner agency a secondment would also be considered (with approval from partner agency)

Closing date 8th August at 23:55

To help you push forwards in your career with us, we invest in developing our team as well as looking after them, with an expansive wellbeing and counselling service along with a range of support networks 

If this sounds like the role for you please see the full job description and click to apply.

For part time hours the salary will be calculated on a pro-rata basis, this is based on the number of hours for the vacancy.

We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and encourage anyone who has considered a career in policing to apply. We are particularly keen to increase the number of females and candidates from black and minority ethnic communities and candidates from the LGBT community, so that we can truly reflect the communities that we serve in.