Policy & Assurance Advisor

Job Family - Manager

Grade: / Department:Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC)
Location: Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner / Security Vetting: SC
Role Specific Requirements/ Restrictions: / Political Restriction
Role Specific Hazards: / Display Screen Equipment,
System Access Requirements: / PNC, Information Assets, MyTrent Manager Self Service,
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Brief Description of your job, its main purpose and major tasks:-
To provide professional, proactive and effective support and advice to the PCC to enable delivery of his statutory responsibilities, and in particular to lead on assurance activity.
Role Specific

To develop and maintain an understanding of the main issues affecting policing, community safety and the criminal justice system both nationally and locally.
To undertake research and analysis of information, legislation and complex policy areas relevant to policing and justice, preparing and delivering briefings, presentations and reports on their implications to the PCC, senior staff and / or stakeholders as necessary.
To contribute to the development, monitoring and implementation of the Police and Crime Plan.
Prepare responses to national consultations and external inspections and provide support in relation to the PCC’s lobbying activity.
Develop, implement, review and amend OPCC Risk and BCM Strategies and all appropriate documents and systems to support management of risk and business continuity.
Analyse Force and OPCC risks to inform the development of scrutiny activity.
Develop, implement and evaluate a programme of scrutiny activity in support of the Commissioner’s duty to hold the Chief Constable to account.
Prepare and present reports that document process and scrutiny activity findings for the Police and Crime Commissioner, Chief Officer and Joint Audit Committee consideration.
To ensure that scrutiny activities reflect the views of the public and partners and monitor Force actions through to their completion.
To maintain oversight of the OPCC’s volunteer schemes and other assurance activity, ensuring effective management of all volunteers and activities.
To ensure the corporate Governance Framework is up to date and reflective of agreed practices and procedures.
To provide support to the Joint Audit Committee.
To lead on specified policy areas, representing the PCC at strategic meetings and working with partners and key stakeholders relevant to the business area.
To undertake project work as directed by the Senior Leaders of the OPCC occasioned by changes in legislation and/or government policy.
To represent the PCC and build relationships with partners including academia, public sector partners, business and voluntary sector.
To line manage the Assurance Support Officer.
To undertake other duties as determined by the Executive Team which are commensurate with the grade.
To provide support and resilience within the OPCC when necessary.

Role Generic

To deliver advice and guidance on complex issues to the point of resolution.
To be accountable for service delivery through effective tasking and co-ordination processes.
To lead projects as directed by the Executive Team.
To provide day to day line management of employees, including the proactive management of workplace health and wellbeing.
To deal with employee conduct, performance and attendance matters in adherence to policy.
To effectively analyse performance of the work area, utilising continuous improvement techniques to improve and develop services.
To oversee specific budgets as designated ensuring expenditure is monitored.
To comply and act in accordance with relevant legislation, policies and protocols, including Code of Ethics, Personal Development Review (P.D.R), Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety, Management of Police Information, Data Protection and Information Security.

/ Your level of responsibility:

Providing focused management to ensure current and developing customer demands are anticipated and met through efficiency and innovation.
Will lead a team to deliver key service expectations.
Managing and developing an important area or function within a service.
Influencing change and direction in furtherance of the police and crime plan objectives and departmental plan.
You are to use your judgement to make decisions on a range of complex and specialist procedural issues.
To overcome problems working in compliance with legislation, Police Staff Terms and Conditions, Police Regulations and Dyfed Powys Policies and guidance.
Taking decisions on how to introduce and/or assesses proposals or ideas which may contain conflicting information.
Providing senior management with appropriate support and recommendations to shape strategy.
Seeking and providing information to others who may not be as familiar with the subject matter.
You are to maintain confidentiality.

Your Attainments:
Role Specific

Must hold a degree, equivalent professional qualification or have relevant experience in the field of work bringing the role holder to a comparable level (E)
Must have in-depth knowledge of working in a complex public or private sector organisation at a strategic level. (E)
Must have the ability to handle complex data and be able to analyse and present it in a simple fashion in letters, concise briefings, presentations and reports. (E)
Must have experience of effecting change to improve performance (E)
Must have experience of advising, negotiating and influencing with internal and external customers at all levels (E)
Must have proven experience of environmental scanning, anticipating change requirements and planning effectively for them (E)
Should have a detailed understanding of Risk Management and Business Continuity at a strategic level (D)

Role Generic

Must have proven experience of leading and managing teams (E)
Must show evidence of continuous professional development (E)
Must have well developed written and oral communication skills, including delivering high quality presentations (E)
Must be computer literate with good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint (E)
Must be able to evidence ability to work autonomously, making sound evidence based decisions (E)
Must be able to manage a workload and balance competing priorities, redirecting resources quickly and effectively to meet changing demands (E)
Must be able to travel throughout the force area (E)
Should have experience of managing budgets (D)
Should be able to respond to general enquiries over the phone and face to face through the medium of Welsh (Level 1) (D)

Key: (E) = Essential (D) = Desirable
Note: This job description is provided to give post holders a broad outline of the job activities of this post. Dyfed-Powys Police may require other duties to be undertaken which are not necessarily specified on the job description but which are commensurate with the scale of the post. The job description may be amended from time to time within the scope and level of responsibility relevant to this post.

Selection Criteria to be evidenced on application is below:-

Application / Interview
Personal Qualities
Serving the Public / X / X
Leading Change / X
Leading People / X
Managing Performance / X
Professionalism / X / X
Decision Making / X
Working With Others / X / X
Attainments
Role Specific
Must hold a degree, equivalent professional qualification or have relevant experience in the field of work bringing the role holder to a comparable level (E) / X / X
Must have in-depth knowledge of working in a complex public or private sector organisation at a strategic level. (E) / X / X
Must have the ability to handle complex data and be able to analyse and present it in a simple fashion in letters, concise briefings, presentations and reports. (E) / X / X
Must have experience of effecting change to improve performance (E) / X / X
Must have experience of advising, negotiating and influencing with internal and external customers at all levels (E) / X / X
Must have proven experience of environmental scanning, anticipating change requirements and planning effectively for them (E) / X / X
Should have a detailed understanding of Risk Management and Business Continuity at a strategic level (D) / X / X
Role Generic
Must have proven experience of leading and managing teams (E) / X / X
Must show evidence of continuous professional development (E) / X / X
Must have well developed written and oral communication skills, including delivering high quality presentations (E) / X / X
Must be computer literate with good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint (E) / X / X
Must be able to evidence ability to work autonomously, making sound evidence based decisions (E) / X / X
Must be able to manage a workload and balance competing priorities, redirecting resources quickly and effectively to meet changing demands (E) / X / X
Must be able to travel throughout the force area (E) / X / X
Should have experience of managing budgets (D) / X
Should be able to respond to general enquiries over the phone and face to face through the medium of Welsh (Level 1) (D) / X