Alzheimers Society Jobs in London, Greater London
Closing date: 6th May
Please ensure you apply with your CV and a supporting statement on why you believe you would be the most suitable individual for this position.
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.
Are you a part qualified Accountant looking to use your skills and accounting knowledge to help address the biggest health issue in the UK today?
We are looking for an Assistant Financial Accountant to join our friendly Finance team as we continue to build our team of passionate people that rise to any challenge. We are looking for someone who would love to be part our success, as we progress our Finance transformation journey and strengthen the Financial Accounting function for the Society.
In this role, you will be involved in key processes that underpin the sound management of both the financial accounting function and the transactional accounting teams.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Playing a key role in the delivery of the month end process, including preparation and posting of certain journals.
- Preparing accurate and transparent balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assisting with deliverables for the statutory accounts and year end audit.
- Liaise and collaborate with Finance Business Partners and Financial Accounting and Transactional teams to ensure that financial policies and procedures are understood and robustly managed.
- Assist with the preparation of other external reporting.
- Participating in ad-hoc finance projects.
- Suggesting and actioning improvement to current processes when recognised.
Alzheimer's Society have recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023. We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction and we're incredibly proud of this achievement.
About you
- Part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with prior experience in a financial accounting role.
- Experience of working with ERP finance systems. Knowledge of Unit 4 (Agresso) Finance System (desirable)
- Experience in management accountant.
- Knowledge of financial accounting standards and a good understanding of financial policies, processes and controls
- Can-do attitude with an ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines.
- Resilient individual with a desire to deliver process improvements.
- Flexible and driven to provide outstanding support to your team and wider colleagues.
Person Specification
- Excellent and professional communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent IT skills and extensive experience/knowledge on using Microsoft packages, particularly Excel.
- Work collaboratively and be able to prioritise your workload effectively.
- Strong analytical and interpretation skills.
- Excellent organisational skills and great attention to detail.
- Advocate for Alzheimer’s Society, demonstrating passion and resilience to make a difference.
- Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated.
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
Closing date: 29th April
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.
Dementia is the biggest health and social care challenge of our time, and if you are an experienced media officer or journalist Alzheimer’s Society needs you!
The busy, award-winning Alzheimer’s Society national media team is looking for a proactive, strategic and experienced Media Officers to deliver our proactive and reactive press activity to raise the profile of Alzheimer’s Society as the only dementia charity to tackle every aspect of dementia and give help for today and hope for the future.
This is a full-time, permanent role and you’ll be joining the organisation at an exciting, defining and hopeful time for dementia. You’ll be working in a friendly, busy team and on a variety of projects across fundraising, influencing, research, innovation and brand.
We’re looking for someone with proven press office and/or journalistic skills and experience to work flexibly across priority campaigns to secure consistent, quality media coverage that instigates and sustains dialogue on dementia.
You will devise and deliver media activity involving our storytellers (case studies), high-profile celebrity ambassadors and supporters, researchers and thought leaders. Your work will show the devastation of dementia, while sharing the help available and the hope the future brings.
Most colleagues in the media team work from home, but we are open to being flexible and provide you with a flexible/hybrid option to work in our offices. Please note. we meet at our London office (Crutched Friars) once a month so it would be great if you’re able to join us each month for these engaging team days!
Alzheimer's Society have recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023. We’ve achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a fantastic achievement and we're incredibly proud as this is a fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.
We would love to welcome more outstanding people to join our exciting journey to make the greatest difference for people living with dementia.
About you
- Good working knowledge of the national UK media.
- Have experience securing quality, strategic press coverage that meets an organisation’s communications goals.
- Be creative, flexible and can spot a good media story or reactive press opportunity a mile off.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Be comfortable to work flexibly across projects and with different subjects.
- Be empathetic, professional and have good attention to detail, able to juggle competing deadlines. And it goes without saying that you’re committed to championing people affected by dementia.
Person Specification
- Excellent and professional communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent IT skills and extensive experience/knowledge on using Microsoft packages.
- Work collaboratively and be able to prioritise your workload effectively.
- Strong analytical and interpretation skills.
- Excellent organisational skills and great attention to detail.
- Advocate for Alzheimer’s Society, demonstrating passion and resilience to make a difference.
- Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated.
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
Closing date: 10th May
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.
Alzheimer’s Society, the UKs leading dementia charity is looking for a Technology Business Partner who will be crucial in bridging the gap between technology and other directorates across the Society.
You will be responsible for driving the technology strategy, fostering relationships, and ensuring alignment between IT solutions and business needs within assigned business areas. You will collaborate with stakeholders to identify requirements to deliver effective solutions.
Reporting to the Business Engagement Manager within the IT department, you will be instrumental in providing an enthusiastic, user focused approach, utilising excellent communication and influencing skills to manage the relationships within a given business area.
The role will play a significant part in the development and delivery of the technology business partnering approach for the Society. Engaging across the Society to support the organisational strategy and ensuring strategic alignment between the technology function and the given business area, so that the organisation can achieve its objectives assisted by technology.
Alzheimer's Society have recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023! We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a fantastic achievement and we're incredibly proud as this is fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.
About you
- Demonstrate experience of developing and maintaining key relationships across directorates within an organisation
- Share the drive, ambition and passion of the IT department to develop positive cross-functional relationships, acting as a trusted partner to support our Help and Hope strategy.
- Demonstrate a commitment to teamwork and shared ownership.
- Experienced in prioritising request and managing expectations.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and experience of managing long term relationships with stakeholders or partners, establishing a common strategic goal.
- Attentive listening skills when gathering critical requirements or understanding the basis of user concerns that are being articulated.
Person Specification
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, both verbal and written
- Able to communicate effectively with people with various levels of confidence with technology.
- Work collaboratively and be able to prioritise your workload effectively and remain solution focussed throughout your areas of work.
- Strong interpersonal and interpretation skills will allow you to have open jargon-free conversations with the business.
- Excellent organisational and timekeeping skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Be a team player, supporting colleagues when there are deadlines, and who knows when to ask for help themselves.
- Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated.
- Be passionate with a ‘can-do’ attitude
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
About The Role
Closing date: 5th May
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.
Can you stop people scrolling on social media? We’re looking for a self-motivated, proactive individual with a passion for social media and experience working across accounts with high volumes of user engagement.
You’ll work as part of a team to manage our day-to-day social media activity, creating compelling content across key channels, providing great community management and working across the organisations to ensure social is being used effectively.
You will help reach team, campaign and organisation-wide goals, ensuring that we take a data and impact-driven approach to activity.
You’ll be identifying and telling stories from people living with dementia through great social content, helping to spot relevant trends and opportunities to maximise engagement, and finding creative ways to demonstrate both the impact of dementia, and also the hope we can give through support, campaigning and research.
Alzheimer's Society have recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023. We’ve achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a fantastic achievement and we're incredibly proud as this is a fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.
We would love to welcome more outstanding people to join our exciting journey to make the greatest difference for people living with dementia.
Key accountabilities and responsibilities
- Create and edit compelling and innovative social media content optimised against a range of objectives, including the production of graphics and video
- Work closely with cross-directorate teams to develop and implement impactful social campaign strategies, ensuring appropriate messaging and content for specific audiences, channels and placements
- Provide full community management across channels on a rota
- Work with people living with dementia to champion their voices through powerful storytelling
- Support the Senior Social Media Manager to embed social media strategy
- Develop and deliver guidance and training to colleagues across all areas relevant to successful social activity, ensuring information is easy to understand for a non-digital audience
- Run paid social activity aligning with strategic team objectives and manage associated budgets
- Use analytics tools to report back on the performance of day-to-day and campaign-focused social activity, making recommendations to address gaps and optimise performance
- Identify trends and develop insights into user activity from relevant data sources to inform our ongoing approach
- Manage projects as directed by the Senior Social Media Manager
- Undertake other tasks as needed to ensure the successful running of our social activity
About you
- Knowledge and experience on creating channel and audience-specific content that maximises user engagement.
- Ability to spot trends and opportunities to ensure we stand out from the crowd.
- You’ll be confident in creating a range of impactful visual assets (graphics, video, photo), and really understand how to get the best results in each placement.
- You’ll be a great communicator with the ability to tell a great story via social content, adept at writing engaging copy, but also able to manage sensitive conversations on social.
- Have great interpersonal skills are also key to allow you to develop great relationships with internal teams, and to work closely with people affected by dementia.
- Whether it’s a person with the condition themselves, a carer or someone that’s lost a loved one, you’ll be able to bring their experiences and stories to life through our channels.
- Have a particular interest in using analytics tools to drive performance through data and insight is essential.
- You’ll be confident creating reports that align with strategic objectives and demonstrate business impact.
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Closing date: 28th April
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.
This is an exciting new role in our growing Fundraising Marketing Team. As Alzheimer’s Society is a growing charity with ambitious goals, we are looking for someone who is passionate about data insight and creating impactful supporter journeys
As the successful candidate, you will be the driving force behind planning supporter journeys across the Income and Engagement directorate. You will help identify the next best ask for supporters interested Events, Legacies, Cause, Prize, and more. You will write data informed retention strategies and work with the relevant stakeholders to see these plans come to life.
You will also work closely with the Fundraising Marketing Team to shape and influence wider marketing activity. This is a diverse role with the opportunity to work across a number of marketing channels both online and offline.
Alzheimer's Society have recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023. We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a fantastic achievement and we're incredibly proud as this is fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.
About you
The successful candidate will be passionate about outstanding supporter experiences and maximising income opportunities, you have a good understanding of direct marketing and digital marketing channels.
You will also ideally be:
- Data driven and detail orientated
- An expert in fundraising and marketing techniques
- Able to communicate complex ideas in an accessible manner
- A natural communicator and able to work with a number of stakeholders across a large and complicated organisation
- Adept at working with some ambiguity as we implement new opportunities
- Motivated by a test and learn strategy
- Able develop new ways of working and consider all aspects of campaign management
- Have a creative flare and passion for delivering the best possible supporter experience
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
Closing date: 30th March.
Contract: This is a fixed term opportunity for 12 months.
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.
We have fantastic opportunity available for a Community Fundraiser to join our rewarding and growing team! This is an exciting home-based role which would suit someone looking to build and develop their fundraising experience or broaden their sector experience in a major national charity.
This role will have a strong focus on working with acquiring new support from our corporate and group/association partnerships in Bath & Wiltshire. The successful candidate will be able to deliver first class account management, as well as driving new business income (from prospecting through to pitch development and delivery).
You will join our Regional Engagement team to help deliver the regional budget. Success in your role will enable our colleagues to campaign for change, fund research to find a cure and support people living with dementia today.
Our team have a wealth of experience and skills to support you. In our team, help will always be there and being a team-player is essential. Recruiting, managing and appreciating the value of our supporters and volunteers is essential. You need to inspire and motivate them to develop lifelong support.
Being based in Bath or Wiltshire is not a requirement but occasional travel to/within the patch will be expected. We can offer flexibility on working pattern/days worked.
About you
- Experience in working within a Fundraising sector, particularly corporate acquisition/pipelining or community fundraising would be advantageous.
- Be a self-starter and can work within a fast-paced, creative, and diverse environment.
- Demonstrate your resourceful and inspirational nature, giving our supporters the best possible experience when raising incredible sums.
- Experience in conducting presentations to businesses and various groups (desirable)
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
Our Values
We are Determined to make a difference when and where it matters most, by being passionate, focussed and making a lasting impact for people affected by dementia.
Every one of us is a Trusted expert, listening, learning and using evidence and experience. We are Better together by being open, combining our strengths, helping us to achieve more together. We are Compassionate, we are kind and honest, and we don’t shy away from challenges.
Through our values we will make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.
Equal Opportunities
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.
We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do. During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and be at your best.
Closing date: 26th April
Contract: This is a fixed term contract for 9 months.
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.
Supporter Engagement is one of the most important teams that is central to the success of Alzheimer’s Society. The function of the team is to manage multi-channel communication with our supporters, both inbound and outbound. The team manage emails, telephone calls and social media interactions and is part of the wider Supporter Experience Department.
The team has a very bespoke tone of voice when managing the high volume of interactions but has the autonomy to manage their own workday within guidelines. Support is second to none and we pride ourselves on having a very open communication style between all members of the team so that help is available for you to be successful in your role.
In this role you will be the first point of contact delivering an excellent supporter experience to members of the public and Alzheimer’s Society’s supporters. You will have enriching one to one conversations across different channels, including phone, email and Social Media. Through answering queries and proactively delivering exceptional levels of stewardship you will build rapport and inspire supporters and potential supporters about our work, whilst maintaining accurate system records that reflect and enhance the supporter experience.
Alzheimer's Society was named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023! We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a fantastic achievement and we're incredibly proud as this is fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.
About you
- Comfortable communicating with a variety of people. Our interactions are varied and you will be responding to supporters who need different levels of support and therefore you will go from adopting an empathetic approach to being more upbeat, therefore a flexibility is needed.
- Able to form string relationships with supporters but also with our internal stakeholder teams.
- Able to contribute into discussions around continuous improvement within the team.
- Be passionate about improving processes so that our supporters have the best experience.
- Think creatively with the ability to influence new ideas to support a team who take pride in wanting to excel.
Person Specification
- Excellent and professional communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent IT skills and extensive experience/knowledge on using Microsoft packages.
- Work collaboratively and be able to prioritise your workload effectively.
- Excellent organisational skills and great attention to detail.
- Advocate for Alzheimer’s Society, demonstrating passion and resilience to make a difference.
- Be a self-starter and incredibly motivated.
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
Closing date: 21st April
Contract: This is a fixed term contract opportunity for 12 months.
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.
Are you an experienced learning and development professional with expert knowledge in volunteering good practice? We’re looking for someone passionate, innovative and collaborative, who can begin to revolutionise our learning offer and create engaging solutions for our learners.
This role will sit within the Volunteering Team, part of the People directorate, and will work across Alzheimer’s Society to identify, plan, design and support the delivery of learning interventions for both volunteers and volunteer managers.
This will be a busy and challenging role; you will need to manage a range of competing priorities and be confident to take the reins to build learning and development approaches, interventions and pathways that are inclusive and will leave a lasting impact.
It’s an exciting time for the Volunteering Team as we enter a new phase, developing our strategy and ensuring we are able to meet the volunteering needs of the Society. The Volunteering Learning and Development Specialist will play a crucial role in achieving this, ensuring we are safe and compliant, but also fit for the future.
Alzheimer's Society have recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023. We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction. This is a fantastic achievement and we're incredibly proud as this is fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.
About you
- Skilled and experienced in designing, developing, and delivering blended learning approaches.
- Hold a relevant Learning and Development qualification at Level 4 or equivalent experience.
- Understanding of the value volunteers add and the impact they bring to organisations, with up-to-date knowledge of volunteering best practice.
- Experience of evaluating the impact of learning solutions, using data to inform future improvements.
- Understanding of how to adapt and tailor learning solutions to various audiences, including people living with dementia.
- Ability to develop strong internal and external relationships.
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
Can you be compassionate and offer a person-centred approach to a wide variety of individuals?
If yes, we’d love to tell you more about our Dementia Adviser role, to work as part of a team to improve outcomes for people affected by with dementia.
Location: community based covering Redbridge and surrounding area, with some homeworking elements.
Hours: 28 hours per week
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.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our talented team as a Dementia Adviser. You will have the rewarding experience of providing information, guidance and support to people affected by dementia in identifying their needs, to help maintain independence, improving sense of well-being, and putting them in more control of their lives.
This role will be supporting the south Asian community within Redbridge, so we are looking for someone who is be fluent in English and south Asian languages in particular Urdu.
You will:
- Offer a vital service delivering information, guidance and support to guide those affected by dementia, face-to-face, by telephone and online.
- Managing referrals, assisting clients in assessing their information and support needs in a person-centred manner.
- Work closely with health, adult social care and third sector colleagues assessing, signposting, and providing information and guidance to support people affected by dementia.
- Build robust working relationships and develop networking opportunities with a range of local partners and community organisations.
- Create pathways with partner organisations who work in the field of dementia, ensuring seamless, holistic consistent support and empowering individuals to make informed choices.
- Facilitate group services including our Singing for the Brain face to face group and our carer information programme.
About you
- Fluent in south Asian languages mainly Urdu, (but it will be a bonus if you are also able to speak either of the following: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi)
- A good communicator
- Able to travel in around the London borough of Redbridge
- Have experience working within NHS environment’s and liaising face to face with healthcare and voluntary sector professionals and building rapport within the borough of Redbridge.
- Be experienced in leading group sessions
- Reliable and possess problem solving skills
- Proficient in IT packages
Please provide cover letter to support you application
Closing date: 28th April 2024
About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.
Our Values
We are Determined to make a difference when and where it matters most, by being passionate, focussed and making a lasting impact for people affected by dementia.
Every one of us is a Trusted expert, listening, learning and using evidence and experience. We are Better together by being open, combining our strengths, helping us to achieve more together. We are Compassionate, we are kind and honest, and we don’t shy away from challenges.
Through our values we will make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.
Equal Opportunities
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.
We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do. During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and be at your best.