Innovation Manager - JRN 20341
 

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Prevention Department as a Innovation Manager.

Job title: Innovation Manager JRN 20341
Salary: Band 10 - £45,948 - £50,109
Location: Gateshead / Remote
Hours/Contract:   30 hours per week (0.8 FTE), Fixed Term/Secondment contract until November 2024
 
Working for #TeamNP 
 
Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and to fight crime. But it takes more than officers alone to do the job – and that’s where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers come in.  
 
As one of the largest police forces in England we have a huge variety of departments and specialisms offering you endless opportunities. From mentoring and coaching schemes and online soft skills courses to leadership development programmes; we’ll give you the support, training and time to carve out the career you always wanted.  
 
As one of the top 50 UK inclusive employers and a disability confident employer, we promote a culture of respect in the workplace so everyone can feel seen, heard and valued.  
 
Whether you’re a member of staff or a volunteer, you can also expect first-rate support to manage your health and wellbeing. With year-round events, a 24/7 welfare support hotline and a leading approach to neurodiversity, our initiatives enable you to be at your best.  
 
Above all else, here at Team NP, we can offer you a career that is so much more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something that really matters.   
 
Learn about our full benefits package 
 
The role 
 
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Prevention Department as a Innovation Manager.
 
Our Prevention Department are a busy team who support Chief Officers, Area Commanders and Heads of Department in the development of Strategy, Planning and Performance Management. The team play an essential part in ensuring our services meet customer needs – a huge challenge but a rewarding one to say the least. We’ve got an excellent opportunity to join the team as a Funding and Innovation Manager who will provide specialist grant funding support and lead on the development of innovation.
 
We’re searching for a great communicator who will be able to successfully engage with a range of stakeholders and partners at a strategic level. You’ll need to be a confident innovator, someone creative who can think outside of the box and have the ability to lead on new ideas. You’ll be working with both internal and external stakeholders, promoting and harnessing the benefits of partner relationships. It’s a diverse role where you’ll share and gather expertise in order to help deliver outstanding service to our communities. If you share our passion for leading the way and sparking innovation – this role is perfect for you!  
 
 
What you’ll do 
 
• Seeking relevant funding via external partnership opportunities and maximising funding and income opportunities 
• Leading on the creation of funding bids from inception to project delivery and evaluation
• Providing guidance and advice to senior management to support concepts for business development
• Organising and facilitating opportunities to create new ideas and approaches – looking for ways to create more efficient and effective ways of working
• Regularly engaging with a range of internal and external contacts, as well as providing an understanding of research and national agenda to shape force improvement
• Identifying business drivers both internally, regionally and nationally to represent the force at local and national forums and conferences
 
Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description 
 
What you’ll bring 
 
• Strong stakeholder management experience – you’ll be working collaboratively with other service departments, partners and stakeholders
• Excellent organisational skills. You’ll need to be able to react quickly to changing priorities and handle a diverse, busy workload
• Project Manager experience at strategic level
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to gain respect, trust and confidence of all stakeholders 
• Relevant, well developed networking, partnership and support skills
• Strong written and verbal skills - along with good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Exceptional negotiation skills and the ability to influence or persuade others
 
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.  
 
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone. 
 
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Dan Baxter by email at dan.baxter@northumbria.police.uk 
 
What we offer 
• 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays 
• Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave 
• Flexi time - allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs 
• Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours) 
• Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force 
• Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution 
• Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts 
• Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers 
• Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets 
• We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support. 
• Access to gyms in some stations  
• Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel 
• Cycle to work scheme 
 
Just so you know 
 
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Funding and Innovation Manager with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.  
 
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Leader, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview. 
 
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.  If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed.  A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references. 
 
Terms of appointment 
 
This is a fixed term role subject to a six-month probationary period
 
If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally 
 
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 
 
Please note any internal candidates applying for a secondment need prior approval from their current line manager before applying.
 
 
Vacancy Type
Police Staff
Location
Newcastle
Hours
Full Time
Salary Range
N/A
Vacancy Description
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Prevention Department as a Innovation Manager.
 
Job title: Innovation Manager JRN 20341
Salary: Band 10 - £45,948 - £50,109
Location: Gateshead / Remote
Hours/Contract:   30 hours per week (0.8 FTE), Fixed Term/Secondment contract until November 2024
 
Working for #TeamNP 
 
Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and to fight crime. But it takes more than officers alone to do the job – and that’s where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers come in.  
 
As one of the largest police forces in England we have a huge variety of departments and specialisms offering you endless opportunities. From mentoring and coaching schemes and online soft skills courses to leadership development programmes; we’ll give you the support, training and time to carve out the career you always wanted.  
 
As one of the top 50 UK inclusive employers and a disability confident employer, we promote a culture of respect in the workplace so everyone can feel seen, heard and valued.  
 
Whether you’re a member of staff or a volunteer, you can also expect first-rate support to manage your health and wellbeing. With year-round events, a 24/7 welfare support hotline and a leading approach to neurodiversity, our initiatives enable you to be at your best.  
 
Above all else, here at Team NP, we can offer you a career that is so much more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something that really matters.   
 
Learn about our full benefits package 
 
The role 
 
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Prevention Department as a Innovation Manager.
 
Our Prevention Department are a busy team who support Chief Officers, Area Commanders and Heads of Department in the development of Strategy, Planning and Performance Management. The team play an essential part in ensuring our services meet customer needs – a huge challenge but a rewarding one to say the least. We’ve got an excellent opportunity to join the team as a Funding and Innovation Manager who will provide specialist grant funding support and lead on the development of innovation.
 
We’re searching for a great communicator who will be able to successfully engage with a range of stakeholders and partners at a strategic level. You’ll need to be a confident innovator, someone creative who can think outside of the box and have the ability to lead on new ideas. You’ll be working with both internal and external stakeholders, promoting and harnessing the benefits of partner relationships. It’s a diverse role where you’ll share and gather expertise in order to help deliver outstanding service to our communities. If you share our passion for leading the way and sparking innovation – this role is perfect for you!  
 
 
What you’ll do 
 
• Seeking relevant funding via external partnership opportunities and maximising funding and income opportunities 
• Leading on the creation of funding bids from inception to project delivery and evaluation
• Providing guidance and advice to senior management to support concepts for business development
• Organising and facilitating opportunities to create new ideas and approaches – looking for ways to create more efficient and effective ways of working
• Regularly engaging with a range of internal and external contacts, as well as providing an understanding of research and national agenda to shape force improvement
• Identifying business drivers both internally, regionally and nationally to represent the force at local and national forums and conferences
 
Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description 
 
What you’ll bring 
 
• Strong stakeholder management experience – you’ll be working collaboratively with other service departments, partners and stakeholders
• Excellent organisational skills. You’ll need to be able to react quickly to changing priorities and handle a diverse, busy workload
• Project Manager experience at strategic level
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to gain respect, trust and confidence of all stakeholders 
• Relevant, well developed networking, partnership and support skills
• Strong written and verbal skills - along with good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Exceptional negotiation skills and the ability to influence or persuade others
 
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.  
 
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone. 
 
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Dan Baxter by email at dan.baxter@northumbria.police.uk 
 
What we offer 
• 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays 
• Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave 
• Flexi time - allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs 
• Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours) 
• Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force 
• Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution 
• Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts 
• Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers 
• Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets 
• We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support. 
• Access to gyms in some stations  
• Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel 
• Cycle to work scheme 
 
Just so you know 
 
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Funding and Innovation Manager with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.  
 
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Leader, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview. 
 
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.  If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed.  A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references. 
 
Terms of appointment 
 
This is a fixed term role subject to a six-month probationary period
 
If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally 
 
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 
 
Please note any internal candidates applying for a secondment need prior approval from their current line manager before applying.