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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.

People in PSG develop and implement policy, provide funding and deliver legislation. We make the most of innovation, data and partnerships to prevent crime, protect the vulnerable, and tackle the highest harm crimes. We work with our partners in law enforcement establishing governance arrangements at a national, regional and local level.

Sitting within the Public Safety Group, the Crime Reduction Directorate coordinates and delivers the Government’s approach to preventing crime.

Our approach is grounded in taking an evidence-based approach, working with partners at national and local levels, and tackling the drivers of crime: drugs, alcohol, opportunity, profit, vulnerability, and the effectiveness of the criminal justice system.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Crime Reduction Directorate which covers high profile policy work on drugs, county lines, neighbourhood crime and serious violence. We are recruiting for five posts within the Crime Reduction Directorate. The key responsibilities for each role are as follows:

Role 1: Alcohol policy team

The team leads on policy and strategy to prevent alcohol-related crime and disorder. The team is also responsible for oversight of the Licensing Act 2003, which provides the legislative framework that regulates the sale and supply of alcohol in England and Wales.

Responsibilities will include:

• Participating in work on a range of licensing issues, widening the evidence base, consulting, drawing up policy options, and working on any resulting legislative processes.
• Supporting work on the use of digital ID and age verification technologies in the context of the Licensing Act and on the wider policy issue of regulation of online and remote sales of alcohol.
• Supporting work to put in place a long-term solution to the covid-related regulatory easements which the Business and Planning Act brought in.
• Supporting the work of the team on policy measures to reduce alcohol-related crime and wider harms.
• Working closely with stakeholders including alcohol and hospitality trade organisations, police, local authorities, public health groups and leading academics.
• Supporting the general work of the team as required including correspondence, FOI requests and PQs.

Role 2: Policy and Grants Manager, Safer Streets Fund delivery team

The Safer Streets Fund supports communities disproportionately and persistently affected by neighbourhood crimes (such as burglary, robbery and theft), anti-social behaviour and violence against women and girls in public spaces to implement evidence-based and innovative crime prevention initiatives. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on the delivery and potential ongoing development of a high-profile fund and gain experience of a wide range of policy and delivery skills, as well as an opportunity to deliver positive outcomes for thousands of households across England and Wales with the intention of preventing them from becoming victims of crime in the first place.

Responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a single point of contact (SPoC) for a number of funded projects. This involves building the relationship with project leads, scrutinising quarterly returns, site visits to the local area and processing payments.
• Monitoring project delivery, ensuring risks are highlighted and mitigated and problem-solving delivery challenges.
• Working closely with analysts and academics on the evaluation of the Safer Streets Fund – for past and current rounds - to build the evidence base and ensure potential future rounds of the Fund reflect the best available evidence.
• Advising senior officials and Ministers, including drafting and/or oversight of stakeholder communications, briefing materials and submissions.

Role 3: UK and International Drug Policy, Drug Misuse Unit.

The Drugs Misuse Unit is a friendly, inclusive and creative place to work within the Crime Reduction Directorate, focussed on supporting individuals to realise their potential in the workplace. Our policy objectives are to reduce drug misuse to historically low levels and strengthen the system to support police and partners to intervene effectively in relation to drug possession. We also work to ensure domestic and international law, via the United Nations, achieves an effective balance between preventing criminality and enabling lawful use in healthcare, research and industry, supporting a thriving UK pharmaceutical sector and contributing to the economy, providing high quality products for patients and consumers. As an HEO in the Drug Policy team you will:

• Work with UK Mission to Vienna to coordinate a successful multi-disciplinary UK delegation to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs. This includes working with various teams to determine the UK position to negotiate resolutions, gather information to decide how the UK should vote on recommendations for changes to international scheduling of substances and setting up opportunities to learn from other countries through bilateral meetings and side events.
• Act as the point of contact for matters relating to the UN including ensuring appropriate UK representation at various international meetings and ensuring timely and accurate data and information sharing, including for the UN Annual Report Questionnaire and various requests from the International Narcotics Control Board.
• Support the G7 to respond to proposals by the British Virgin Islands government to legalise cannabis, and more generally engaging with British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies on drug policy and economic opportunities.
• Organise the annual UK Drug Ministerial which brings together ministers and experts across the UK to discuss tackling drug misuse. This includes working with teams across the Home Office, UK Government and Devolved administrations to create an agenda, organise expert presentations, arrange event logistics and briefing for the Minister.

Role 4: County Lines National Law Enforcement and Engagement Policy Adviser

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a high-profile issue and develop the national law enforcement response to county lines and ensure that learning from the County Lines Programme, a high impact Programme of law enforcement activity, is embedded and expanded. We are recruiting an HEO for our county lines team. This is a critical role in the team responsible for overseeing programme delivery. The team’s work involves working with a range of partners, both internally and externally, including law enforcement and cross-Government partners. This role involves a varied and interesting mix of programme and policy development/delivery work, and will provide good exposure to senior leaders and Ministers. As a policy adviser on county lines national law enforcement and engagement, you will be responsible for drafting briefings for Ministerial meetings and visits, responding to correspondence & PQs as well as:

• Work with a range of partners to develop policy in relation to national county lines law enforcement;
• Develop and manage stakeholder engagement, including developing and drafting advice and briefings for senior officials and Ministers;
• Manage the secretariat for the County Lines Task & Finish Group;
• Respond to regular parliamentary, public and media interest in county lines and the Home Office County Lines Programme.

Role 5: Retail Crime Policy Adviser

The Retail Crime policy team sits within the Acquisitive Crime team in Neighbourhood Crime Unit. The team has a particular focus on reducing violence and abuse towards shop workers, shop theft and other crime affecting retailers. This is a varied and interesting policy role which involves working with stakeholders, parliamentary work, briefing senior colleagues and ministers, and managing grant funding for stakeholder projects. You will take a lead role in engagement with stakeholders, facilitate working groups and develop our policy response to retail crime. This is a stretching role with opportunities to develop a range of policy skills.

Responsibilities will include:

• Secretariat for the National Retail Crime Steering Group, chaired by the Minister for Crime and Policing, including preparing agendas and briefing for the meetings;
• Regular engagement with stakeholders including retail trade associations, the national policing leads, criminal justice charities and other Government departments where there is a shared policy interest;
• Parliamentary work, including drafting PQs, briefing for debates and written updates to a Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry;
• Grant management of funding provided to specific projects, including drafting business cases, liaising with finance and commercial colleagues and managing the grant funding process;
• Drafting correspondence, including working with colleagues to manage the correspondence process on behalf of the unit.

The team works flexibly and the post holder may be asked to provide support to the wider team’s work on acquisitive crime, including vehicle theft, metal theft and the Scrap Metal Dealers Act, and our Stolen Goods Working Group.

The successful candidates will be required to:

• Work across, and flex between, a number of different work streams and policy areas, sometimes at pace;
• Able to build and maintain constructive relationships with a range of stakeholders;
• Have strong planning and organisational skills; and
• Have excellent drafting and communication skills, and the ability to identify and deal with critical details while presenting succinct advice and options to senior staff and ministers.

Essential criteria

The post holders must have an ability to:

• Establish and maintain strong partnerships with a range of stakeholders;
• Communicate effectively and provide clear written and oral briefing to senior officials and Ministers;
• Plan and organise work to meet deadlines; and,
• Work across a number of work streams, often balancing the needs of each at pace.

Desirable criteria

Previous experience of working in policy or delivery would be helpful, but not essential.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job contact :

Name :
Helen Cordy
Email :
Helen.Cordy1@homeoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email :
HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk