Community Development Coordinator

Alzheimer's Society; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading dementia charity is seeking a Community Development Coordinator to work across Warwickshire. This outward-facing role involves building relationships with stakeholders and communities to raise awareness of dementia support services and reduce health inequalities. The ideal candidate will have experience in community engagement and a strong understanding of diversity and health disparities. This position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals affected by dementia.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Comprehensive learning programmes

Strong work-life balance

Qualifications

• Confidence in building relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Understanding of health inequalities and their impact.
• Proactive and motivated to achieve meaningful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Engage with communities to raise awareness of dementia services.
• Build relationships with stakeholders like healthcare professionals.
• Deliver workshops and awareness sessions with community members.
• Develop connections with organizations to create supportive networks.
• Gather insights from communities to improve engagement strategies.
• Support community members in running events and groups.
• Work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends as required.

Skills

Building relationships

Community engagement

Understanding equity and diversity

Job description

About The Role

We have an incredibly rewarding and meaningful opportunity to join us as a Community Development Coordinator, covering the whole of the Warwickshire area. This role plays an instrumental part in tackling health inequalities, working with the support of management to ensure that individuals, local communities and health services have access to vital information about dementia support.

This is a highly outward-facing role, focused on building strong relationships across diverse communities. You will engage and network with people at all levels—from senior healthcare professionals to people affected by dementia, their families and carers. Through community-specific workshops, awareness sessions and partnership working, you will help reduce health inequalities and improve access to dementia support across Warwickshire.

Responsibilities

• Actively engage with communities across Warwickshire, facilitating and attending community events, local forums and networking opportunities to raise awareness of dementia services.
• Build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, from senior healthcare professionals to community leaders, charities and grassroots organisations.
• Deliver community-specific workshops and awareness sessions, working collaboratively with both internal colleagues and external partners.
• Develop strong links with organisations delivering similar or complementary services, helping to create a robust and collaborative local network.
• Influence and motivate individuals and organisations to take action, often encouraging people to work beyond their usual roles to create meaningful, long-term change.
• Gather knowledge from communities—understanding what works, what doesn’t, and why—and using this learning to continuously improve engagement and reduce health inequalities, including those affecting smaller or less visible groups.
• Support and enable community members and volunteers who wish to run groups, events or activities, working alongside and empowering them to take action.
• Work flexibly, including some evening and weekend work, to meet community needs and attend events.

Qualifications

• Confidence and ability to approach and build trusting relationships with a diverse range of organisations and individuals including unrepresented or seldom-heard groups.
• Understanding of equity, diversity and health inequalities.
• Have an understanding of dementia, or be keen to develop knowledge of its impact on people diagnosed and those who care for them.
• Take a proactive approach and be motivated to achieve positive, meaningful outcomes.

About Alzheimer's Society

Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime. At Alzheimer’s Society, we’re the UK’s leading dementia charity and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding groundbreaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be. Together with our supporters, we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer’s Society. We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer’s Society.

Our Hiring Process

During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and can be at your best. We are working hard to ensure our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible, so please do inform us of your experience and anything you think we could do better by completing our candidate survey when you apply. Please also contact Alzheimer’s Society Talent Acquisition Team via [e-mail] for application support or any adjustments you might need. To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

We are committed to safer recruitment and ensuring the welfare of those we work with, due to the nature of some of our roles, we might need to carry out a DBS check at the relevant level.

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer’s Society. You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.