Job Description

• PREVENT: Preventing terrorist attack through tackling radicalisation and the factors which contribute to it.
  
  
• PURSUE: Disrupting terrorists and their operations both in the UK and overseas.
  
  
• PROTECT: Reducing the vulnerability of the UK and UK interests overseas to terrorist attack.
  
  
• PREPARE: Ensuring that the UK is as prepared as it can be for dealing with the consequences of a terrorist attack.

• This is a newly created post to oversee the OSCT engagement with communities.
  
  
• Given the greatest terrorist threat to the UK is currently posed by those who seek to justify their actions through a misrepresentation of Islam and that those they seek to radicalize are primarily in Muslim communities, this post will require a particular focus engaging with those communities.
  
  
• There is a requirement that the post holder will need to be security cleared to Developed Vetting (DV) level and any offer made will be conditional on that criteria being fulfilled.

• To further develop an understanding of communities and how they are reacting in real time, providing feedback and contacts to enable OSCT to ascertain true community reaction.
  
  
• To ensure the positive public perception of counter terrorism activities within our communities and ensure the work of the organisation is clearly and accurately explained to the community in a cogent and understandable format.

• Contribute to communicating CONTEST as widely as possible and explaining its key components. Notably (but not only) in connection with the Prevent agenda;
  
  
• To provide positive interaction and engagement with the community on a regular basis; building confidence and trust;
  
  
• Work in and develop sustainable partnerships with other relevant stakeholders, partners and the community with particular focus on organisations representing Muslim communities in the UK and overseas at a range of levels, to ensure that information and intelligence is shared on a regular basis;
  
  
• Contribute and advise on strategy and policy development, based on community feedback;
  
  
• Work inclusively rather than exclusively across a range of sectors;
  
  
• Brief and advise high level stakeholders in a range of government agencies.

• Ensure OSCT connects effectively with communities, and in particular Muslim communities, through an ongoing process engagement
  
  
• involve communities in the development of our CT policy and specifically the delivery of projects that achieve the aim of stopping people becoming terrorists (to include identifying, contacting and encouraging involvement of a wide range of community partners)
  
  
• Understand the impact of our CT policies and the way they are viewed and discussed in communities.
  
  
• Develop a capacity to either advise or obtain advice on faith related issues of our CT work;
  
  
• To act as a point of expertise on effective community engagement within OSCT to develop the capacity of others to undertake this work and
  
  
• To co-ordinate OSCT's approach to community engagement with that of other Government Departments.

• Department for Communities and Local Government
  
  
• Research, Information and Communications Unit (Home Office)
  
  
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  
  
• Local Authorities
  
  
• Community groups and organisations
  
  
• Counter terrorist agencies and organisations