Involvement and Engagement Officer

CamWebDir; Great Abington; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Alzheimer’s Research UK is seeking an Involvement and Engagement Officer to lead patient and public involvement within the I&I team. You will coordinate lived experience volunteers, support engagement activity, and help shape standards and processes to enable meaningful involvement across ARUK.

The role supports face-to-face and participatory public engagement initiatives, collaborates with researchers, and helps embed involvement across dementia research and fundraising activities.

Responsibilities

• Working with the Involvement & Engagement Manager, implement ARUK’s public involvement and engagement strategy.
• Plan and deliver the work of the Lived Experience Involvement Group, including liaising with members and providing dementia specific assistance, arranging logistics for meetings, responding to queries, liaising with internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate involvement activities, including producing plans and briefs ahead of sessions; facilitating sessions, ensuring participants can effectively take part and share their views; gathering insight and effectively analysing and sharing with relevant colleagues.
• Support the recruitment of new lived experience representatives, with a focus on improving representation from people with a dementia diagnosis and those from underserved communities.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records relating to involvement activity, in line with ARUK policies and procedures.
• Help to develop and deliver training on engagement and involvement for the Lived Experience Involvement Group, colleagues and the research community, working with the Research Involvement

Job description

Involvement and Engagement Officer
The Involvement & Engagement Officer will play a crucial role in delivering the patient and public involvement and engagement strategy for Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The role forms part of the Involvement & Engagement team, which sits in the Information and Involvement (I&I) department.
The team acts as a focal point for patient and public involvement at the charity, working to ensure that people with lived experience shape and inform projects and activity across ARUK. You will coordinate and support a key group of lived experience involvement volunteers, facilitate high-quality involvement activity, and contribute to the development of standards and processes that enable meaningful involvement across ARUK.
The team supports colleagues and dementia researchers by developing guidance and training on involvement and engagement and promoting best practice.
The team also delivers public engagement initiatives, with the aim of making dementia research accessible and inspiring to the public through face-to-face events and participatory projects. The team also supports fundraising colleagues and activities through helping to embed and enhance ways to engage supporters with dementia research.
The team forms part of the busy Policy, Communications & Involvement directorate and works closely with colleagues both within the directorate and across the charity. The I&I department’s mission is to improve understanding of dementia and the diseases which cause it and encourage and support the public and people affected by dementia to get involved in research. The evolving remit of the team means this role has significant scope to shape and develop this area of work.
Key Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the Involvement & Engagement Manager, implement ARUK’s public involvement and engagement strategy.
• Plan and deliver the work of the Lived Experience Involvement Group, including liaising with members and providing dementia specific assistance, arranging logistics for meetings, responding to queries, liaising with internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate involvement activities, including producing plans and briefs ahead of sessions; facilitating sessions, ensuring participants can effectively take part and share their views; gathering insight and effectively analysing and sharing with relevant colleagues.
• Support the recruitment of new lived experience representatives, with a focus on improving representation from people with a dementia diagnosis and those from underserved communities.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records relating to involvement activity, in line with ARUK policies and procedures.
• Help to develop and deliver training on engagement and involvement for the Lived Experience Involvement Group, colleagues and the research community, working with the Research Involvement