Head of Frontline Leadership Programme and Alumni

**About Police Now**

Our mission is to transform communities, reduce crime and anti-social behaviour, and increase the public’s confidence in the police service by recruiting, developing and inspiring outstanding and diverse leaders in society and on the policing frontline.

We are working towards a day when every community, whatever the socio-economic background of its residents, can thrive without being fearful of crime. We are looking for talented, committed and mission-aligned individuals who will drive us towards achieving our ambitions.

Police Now recruits and trains graduates and career changers with leadership potential to become inspirational police officers and outstanding crime fighters on our National Graduate Leadership Programme and our National Detective Programme. Beyond these programmes, our officers may join our 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 us.

Our 115-strong not-for-profit organisation aims to create systemic change. We need highly capable impactful staff to support the recruitment and development of our officers and to cultivate strong relationships with partner forces and the wider sector.

**The purpose of the role**

Police Now seeks an exceptional individual to lead the delivery and evolution of our Frontline Leadership Programme, as well as lead the alumni offer for graduates of our 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 Police Now coach which are tailored to the individual officer’s needs. Separately, we are seeking to retain as many of our graduate programme alumni within policing as possible, ensuring Police Now officers have a lasting impact on the service. We 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.

The role comprises five main parts:
**Role model **Police Now’s mission, strategy, values and leadership principles. As a member of the senior leadership team, you will have collective responsibility for the strategy and direction of the organisation, ensuring that it is a role model of leadership, integrity, wellbeing, efficiency and effectiveness, in policing and beyond. You will also lead and develop your own team of c9 individuals to enable them to thrive within their roles.

**Communicate **effectively, energetically and inspirationally, advocating and representing the FLP and our alumni work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, ranging from programme participants and alumni through to force contacts and other internal teams.

**Deliver** an outstanding Frontline Leadership Programme, with multiple cohorts running each year, which equips participants with excellent police leadership and people management skills, and the understanding of how to deploy those skills and abilities in ethical and procedurally just ways that increase public confidence and police legitimacy.

**Deliver **an excellent alumni offering for graduates of our two graduate programmes (neighbourhoods and detectives), continuing their leadership development journey, and putting interventions in place to maximise the number of alumni who stay and progress up the ranks within policing.

**Collaborate** internally and externally to evaluate programme delivery and then design and iterate the Frontline Leadership Programme and our alumni offer year-on-year, so that it continues to be successful, measured against Police Now’s mission, strategy, participant experience and police force/stakeholder requirements.

**Key responsibilities**

**ROLE MODEL**

Inspire your team (currently 9 individuals), including three direct reports, hundreds of programme participants, and colleagues from partner forces and stakeholders. Be a powerful advocate for modern police leadership, and the transformational change that can be achieved when it is delivered well. Effectively, energetically and authentically communicate Police Now’s mission, our theory of change, strategy and vision so that those experiencing our programmes, delivering our programmes and supporting our programmes believe that a more effective, more legitimate, more just police service can be a reality in the future.
- Act as an effective senior leader and line manager to the FLP and Alumni team and wider Programmes directorate, supporting and developing your direct and indi