Community Development Coordinator

ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY; United States; Remote; USD 27,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Alzheimer's Society in Coventry seeks a part-time Community Development Coordinator (24 hours/week) to engage people with lived experience of dementia, build trusted relationships, and improve access to dementia support. You will run community workshops, network with health professionals, and promote inclusive services across diverse communities.

The role focuses on partnership working, reducing health inequalities, and embedding lived experience in local services, with some evening and weekend

Qualifications

• Experience engaging with diverse communities and groups.
• Ability to coordinate and facilitate workshops and meetings.
• Understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion in health settings.

Responsibilities

• Actively engage communities and attend events to raise awareness of dementia services.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders from health, charities, and community groups.
• Deliver community-specific workshops and awareness sessions with internal and external partners.
• Develop links with organizations delivering similar services to strengthen local networks.
• Influence and motivate individuals and organizations to create meaningful, long-term change.
• Gather knowledge from communities to understand what works and to reduce health inequalities.
• Support and enable community members and volunteers to run groups and events.
• Work flexible hours including some evenings and weekends to meet community needs.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Community outreach

Workshop facilitation

Equity & inclusion

Regional travel

Job description

Are you ready to make a realdifferencein the communityfor people affected by dementia and their families?

Do you possess the skills to engage people with lived experience of dementia in shaping more inclusive communities and services?

Can you adapt yourcommunicationstyle to connect with any audience?

Yes? We'd love to tell you more...

We have an incrediblyrewardingandmeaningfulopportunity to join us as aCommunity Development Coordinator (24 hours per week,fixed term until March 2027)with a focus on lived experience and involvementcovering the whole of theCoventry area.

This role plays aninstrumentalpart in making strong trusted relationships with people affected by dementia, families and carers within communities and diverse groups to support them to attend workshops andfocus groups or community networks, Alzheimer's Society have a commitment to working with people with lived experience. This ensures that we create and adapt our services to bemeaningful and reflect the needs of our service users. This role helps to embed this value and a improve dementia awareness and inclusivity in our communities, businesses and with stakeholders.

The successful individual will be working with the support of the team to ensure thatindividuals, localcommunitiesand health services have access tovitalinformation about dementia support,ensuring that lived experience remains a real focus in local communities.

This is a highlyrewarding andoutward-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 Coventry.

You will be joining an established, knowledgeable and well-respected team, sharing learning, insight and best practice. Our work is rooted in communities, and we have built trusted relationships with local partners, professionals and people affected by dementia.

The service is recognised for its commitment to working collaboratively to ensure dementia support reaches those who need it most, including underrepresented and seldom-heard communities. This role involves significant time spent working directly in communities. You will identify opportunities to promote services, build trust, facilitate workshops and strengthen local networks to improve dementia awareness and support.

About you

You will have:

• Confidence and ability to approach and build trusting relationships with a diverse range of organisations and individuals including unrepresented or seldom-heard groups
• Previous working knowledge of making local contacts and networking with various services and providers to offer the widest range of opportunities to those we support and the ability to build relationships within communities and local community groups.
• Skills and ability to coordinate and facilitate groups and workshops
• Understanding of equity, diversity and health.
• 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.
• Able to travel independently across the required region

Please don’t be put off from applying if you don’t meet every single requirement listed. We recognise the value of transferable skills and lived experience, and we’re keen to hear from candidates who can demonstrate potential, capability and a willingness to learn.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively engage with communities, 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 (delivering presentations and briefings) 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.
• Gathering 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.

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 values make sure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead and remind us of what we all stand for.

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 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups help us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

Giving back to you

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.

27 Sep 2026