Policy Manager

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports. The Public Safety Group's role is to keep the public safe by cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, protecting the vulnerable and ensuring that our police, fire and rescue services are as efficient and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services. We work with our partners in other government departments, local government and the voluntary sector to develop and implement policy, provide funding, and deliver legislation. As G7 responsible for Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) partnerships and system engagement, you will be responsible for liaising across government and externally to lead on work to refocus the PCC model, to ensure greater collaboration and join-up. You will be someone who enjoys working with a high degree of independence, working across teams and policy areas, ensuring that the thinking between policy issues in the policing, crime and criminal justice landscape is connected and compatible. As G7 for PCC Model Partnerships and System Engagement, you will be responsible for liaising across government on policy proposals that impact or interact with the PCC model. You will lead on engagement with key partners in the PCC partnership landscape to influence and steer policy to ensure that it is compatible with the PCC model and the government's ambitions to refocus the PCC role locally. Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Lead on measures focused on expanding and refocussing the role of PCCs and strengthening their partnerships locally, developing policy and implementing legislation. This will include taking forward ambitions to place Local Criminal Justice Boards on a statutory footing with PCCs as their Chair, legislating to introduce a new reciprocal duty for PCCs and Regional Probation Directors and developing policy to ensure PCCs role as local leaders is cemented in line with the Government's reform agenda.
• Act as the key point of contact and lead on the development of policy across government and the wider policing and criminal justice system that affects or impacts the PCC model, proactively engaging and liaising to influence and negotiate.
• Lead on engagement with key policing and criminal justice system leaders. This will include supporting key set piece events to deliver strategic speeches and briefing for Ministers and senior civil servants.
• Lead on the maintenance of Emergency Services Collaboration policy, supporting the development of cross government policy to ensure efficiencies and joined up working in the emergency services.
• Lead on the maintenance of Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) policy, working across the Public Safety Group for the Unit and support business case applications for new PFCCs.