12 Month Secondment/Fixed Term Contract
Make a Difference Every Day
Are you passionate about preventing crime, safeguarding young people, and making communities safer? Working in the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) for Thames Valley is more than just a job, it’s an opportunity to shape early intervention, influence education, and deliver meaningful change across our communities.
We are looking for an experienced and innovative Education Development Manager to lead the delivery of our Education Strategy and help embed a strong, evidence-led approach to prevention and community safety.
About the Role
This is a unique and influential role focused on delivering the OPCC Education Strategy across Thames Valley. You will work with partners including Thames Valley Police, schools, local authorities and community organisations to coordinate and deliver high quality education and prevention initiatives. The role combines strategic oversight with hands on delivery, ensuring education programmes are impactful, evidence based, and aligned to key priorities such as safeguarding, early intervention, and reducing vulnerability.
You will build strong partnerships, develop innovative educational content, and ensure that the voices of young people and those with lived experience shape our approach.
This is a hybrid role based at the OPCC in Kidlington, with regular travel across Thames Valley.
Key Responsibilities -
- Lead delivery of the OPCC Education Strategy across schools, colleges, and communities
- Develop and coordinate innovative engagement programmes with schools and Thames Valley Police Schools Officers
- Design and deliver high quality education and training packages on crime prevention and community safety
- Increase uptake of education resources and develop new lesson plans and outreach activities
- Work with partners to identify gaps in provision and respond to emerging risks and trends
- Provide oversight, monitoring and evaluation of education related programmes, ensuring measurable impact
- Coordinate and analyse education surveys to inform future strategy and improvement
- Ensure safeguarding principles and good practice are embedded across all activity
- Support delivery of requirements linked to the Victims Code and Serious Violence Duty
About You
The ideal candidate will:
- Have experience delivering education, training or engagement programmes, particularly with young people
- Be confident presenting to a range of audiences, with the ability to adapt style and approach
- Demonstrate strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships
- Have a good understanding of safeguarding, early intervention and prevention
- Be highly organised, able to work independently, and manage competing priorities
- Be experienced in developing innovative approaches to education and engagement
- Ideally have knowledge of crime prevention, community safety, or youth vulnerability (desirable)
- Hold (or be willing to work towards) a recognised training/teaching qualification, or equivalent experience
- Be able to travel across Thames Valley (full UK driving licence required)
Join Our Team
If you are passionate about making a difference and want to play a key role in shaping how we prevent crime and support communities through education, we would love to hear from you. By joining our dedicated and dynamic OPCC team, you will contribute to building safer, stronger and more inclusive communities across Thames Valley.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Helen Wake at helen.wake@thamesvalley.police.uk
If you are a permanent member of staff applying for this role, please note it will be offered on a secondment basis. Important: All secondments must be supported in writing by your Line Manager and Head of Department/Commander or Deputy. Please attach written approval from your line manager and Head of Department in your application. If the secondment is not supported then the role may be offered on a fixed term contract basis, but this has implications including loss of continuous service protections.
Please note: Shift allowance, on-call or other job related allowances from the previous role will not be protected unless they are attached to the new role for the duration of the secondment.
As part of the Thames Valley Police family you will enjoy a fantastic range of benefits including 30 days annual leave per annum, pro-rata for part time (plus Bank Holidays), flexible working conditions, a wide range of lifestyle discounts, career development opportunities and have the option to join a local government pension scheme. For more information on our benefits, please visit the supporting you page, via the link at the bottom of the advert.
If you have any queries please contact the Recruitment Team at RecruitmentPoliceStaff@thamesvalley.police.uk quoting reference 23676. We will endeavour to respond to your query as quickly as possible.
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The closing date for enquiries and receipt of completed applications is Sunday 19 July 2026.
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