Prevent Training and Research Officer

Working Hours: 35 Hours per week

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Closing Date: 02 July 2024

This role is subject to -

Police Vetting – You will be required to undertake a Greater Manchester Police vetting process.

Manchester City Council is seeking to recruit an exceptional candidate to join it’s Prevent Team.

Prevent is part of CONTEST, the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy. The aim of Prevent is to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. We do this by challenging terrorist ideology; supporting people susceptible to being drawn into terrorism and building resilience in a variety of sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation. We need to respond to tackle all forms of extremism - including both International and Extreme Right-Wing threats.

The public sector, including local authorities have a vital role to play in the successful delivery of Prevent objectives.  The Prevent Training and Research role is key for supporting services and teams across the local authority and wider strategic partners to deliver activities, which are reflective of local risks and emerging threats.  The role will be required to build on the understanding and capabilities of staff to respond to complex ideologies and sensitive issues along with produce and deliver support, training and resources that help practitioners to build resilience to countering terrorism. This will include identifying, reviewing and utilising existing secondary research and undertaking research on specific ideologies, using national and international research on key topics, including the use of Homeland Security reports etc. 

The Training and Research Officer will:

• Lead, manage and deliver high-quality research and intelligence/analysis work packages, contributing to a range of plans and strategies.
  
  
• Assist in developing, embedding and implementing a training strategy which includes a range of tools and resources.
  
  
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders, building and maintaining effective working partnerships with authority colleagues and relevant external partners to maximise their contribution to research and training priorities.
  
  
• Develop a comprehensive Prevent training programme that will be delivered internally and externally, which reflects local risk and threat and the necessary monitoring and evaluation.

The ideal candidate will have a good working experience of conducting research using a variety of techniques along with knowledge and a clear understanding of relevant central and local government issues and trends, including legislation, relevant to preventing people susceptible to being drawn into terrorism and wider community safety agendas, safeguarding and approaches to community cohesion and integration in local government.

Candidates should have good organisation and planning skills, excellent communication skills, project management experience, an ability to design and deliver presentations and training and who can be creative and innovative in their work.

We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion. 

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here. 

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

• We take time to listen and understand
• We work together and trust each other
• We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
• We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
• We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council 

At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve.  We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.   

If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.   
 

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

Accessibility 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work. 

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When you join us 

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role. 

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