Head of Frontline Leadership Programme and Alumni

Head ofFrontline Leadership Programme and Alumni

Location: London (This role will require working at least 3 days a week in the London office)

Salary: £63,000 - £81,000 per annum

Our client, a not-for-profit organisation, recruits and trains graduates and career changers with leadership potential to become inspirational police officers and outstanding crime fighters on their National Graduate Leadership Programme and their National Detective Programme. Beyond these programmes, the officers may join the Frontline Leadership Programme and be further developed giving them the best possible chance to progress through the policing ranks and have a lifelong connection with the organisation.

The Role

The organisation seeks an exceptional individual to lead the delivery and evolution of their Frontline Leadership Programme, as well as lead the alumni offer for graduates of their two-year National Detective Programme and National Graduate Leadership Programme.

The one-year Frontline Leadership Programme (FLP) aims to develop diverse cohorts of serving constables from forces across the country to be ethical, effective leaders, and to support them to rapidly achieve promotion to sergeant.

The FLP combines five dynamic, in-person taught days over the course of the year with bespoke online modules, alongside 121 online support sessions with a coach which are tailored to the individual officer’s needs.

Separately, they are seeking to retain as many of their graduate programme alumni within policing as possible, ensuring the organisations officers have a lasting impact on the service. They support alumni to develop their skills and progress within policing, particularly by gaining promotion.

This role represents a genuine opportunity to influence the policing leaders of the future who can drive the cultural change that policing needs.

Skills and Experience

• Experience of leading medium-sized teams: Demonstrable experience of authentically and successfully leading multi-disciplinary teams in complex environments, ideally for a mission-driven purpose, to build positive cultures and unlock discretionary effort, and thereby create outstanding results, at speed, involving complexity, and against adversity.
• Project management: the ability to oversee large and complex projects, including management of decisions, timelines, interdependencies and risks, coordinating your team and working closely with others across the organisation to ensure that programme deliverables are achieved on time and to the required standard.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Experience of leading and positively influencing a diverse and inclusive workplace, with a particularly strong understanding of women and ethnic minority officers within policing, and the barriers faced by these groups.
• Budget management: The ability to set and manage large budgets, including high-value procurement, and the need to make difficult choices so that every pound counts.
• Strategic thinking and innovation: the ability to think strategically, grasping the bigger picture and acting on it, to reflect honestly on the performance of self and others and to alter own behaviour and feedback accordingly, and to critically analyse and problem-solve logically and effectively.
• Understanding of the organisation’s mission: Genuine emotional and intellectual connection with, belief in and understanding of, the organisation’s mission, theory of change, leadership principles and strategy of quality, differentiation and sustainability. You should be prepared to explain this in some detail if invited to interview.
• Knowledge of the strategic policing landscape; including how policing in England and Wales comprises a blend of the 43 territorial police forces, several thematic forces, and national institutions, and an understanding of how they intersect.
• An understanding of outstanding public service delivery; and what this would look like for the Frontline Leadership Programme and participants. This could be gained from policing or other public service role.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills; including the ability to convey complex concepts in a simple and compelling manner appropriately to a range of audiences via public speaking to large audiences, in person and online, briefing notes and business cases.
• Willingness to travel: the ability to travel and stay overnight to deliver FLP Taught Days, currently taking place in Birmingham on a monthly basis. Other travel will be required, including to attend force meetings or programme events throughout the year, which may require overnight stays.

Benefits

• A bright, airy and modern office in Zone 1.
• A supported working from home set-up with the technology and certain equipment required.
• Competitive salary of £63,000- £81,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
• Flexible working
• 27 days holiday each year plus bank holidays
• Access to a benefit platform, which includes salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and smart tech as well as access to over 750 retailers and discounts
• Sanctus coaching (private mental health coaching for the workplace)
• Access to the Vitality programme which includes healthcare benefits, an Employee Assistance Programme and discounts
• Training opportunities for personal development
• Participation in a pension scheme (with 6% employer contributions and 2% employee contributions)

To Apply

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