Dementia support manager jobs in Edinburgh, scotland

Do you have experience of volunteer management and an in-depth understanding of the value and impact volunteers bring to large and complex organisations? Would you like to play a crucial role in improving volunteer and volunteer manager experiences across the UK’s leading dementia support and research charity?

About the role
We are recruiting for a Volunteering Partnerships and Implementation Manager to join on a part-time basis, working 28 hours per week (0.8 FTE) on a permanent contract. This is a home-based role with occasional travel required for in-person meetings.

Volunteers and volunteering are core to delivering the Alzheimer’s Society’s strategy and volunteers currently make up most of our workforce providing Help and Hope to those affected by dementia. As Volunteering Partnerships and Implementation Manager, you will lead a team of subject matter experts to build and maintain relationships and implement change across the Society.

You will lead the Partnerships and Implementation team, enabling them to be excellent collaborators that listen and supporting specific directorates to involve volunteers. Your team will work to understand and develop solutions, assisting in implementing improvements or change, and developing volunteer managers.

In this role you will also be a member of the wider Volunteering Management Team, contributing to future strategy and plans and leading workstreams and ongoing improvement of volunteering across the Society. You will proactively use data and insights to inform ongoing improvement to volunteer and volunteer manager experiences, in addition to sharing directorate/functional trend data to inform wider strategic changes to volunteering experiences.

Interviews for this role have been provisionally scheduled to take place via MS Teams on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th September.

About you
Joining us, you’ll have proven leadership and people management skills, and the ability to develop a high performing team through empowerment, delegation, and coaching. You’ll have advanced knowledge of the value volunteers add, and the impact they bring to organisations, with up-to-date knowledge of the law relating to volunteering and volunteering best practice, principles, and procedures.

Crucially, you’ll be able to use data and insights to analyse and solve problems and improve processes for volunteers. In addition to experience involving volunteers, volunteer managers or people with lived experience in a projects or tasks. You’ll be a good communicator with the highly effective interpersonal, collaboration and influencing skills required to build and manage relationships with key stakeholders.

What you’ll focus on:

- Leading a team of Volunteering Partners including Senior Volunteering Partner, to build and maintain relationships with a specific directorate/function in the Society, to understand functional priorities and requirements for volunteering.
- Ensuring communication, engagement and support is relevant to directorate/functional groups across the Society and supporting with implementation of changes.
- Contributing to future strategy and plans and leading workstreams and on pieces of ongoing improvement of volunteering across the Society as part of the wider Volunteering Management Team.
- Building credibility and trust-based relationships with managers and leaders across the directorates/functions, providing volunteering expertise and guidance to support Volunteer and Volunteer Manager experiences.
- Proactively using data and insight from directorate/functions to inform ongoing improvement to Volunteer and Volunteer Manager experiences.
- Ensuring implementation of strategic changes within directorate/functions particularly within enabling functions, in line with volunteering strategy and change programmes.
- Overseeing the planning, delivery and post action activity for our bi-annual Volunteer Voice Survey.

About Alzheimer's Society - who are we and what’s our mission?
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 ground-breaking 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 part of a minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer's Society.

Our hiring process
We want you to bring your whole self to the process. Applications are anonymised until interview stage, and we’re happy to support any adjustments. Share your feedback via our candidate survey when applying to help us improve. We may close early if we receive high interest (with 48 hours’ notice). Some roles may require a DBS check as part of our safer recruitment commitment. Thinking about using AI during the recruitment process? We know this can be helpful in many ways but remember to include your personal and authentic self too. Your voice and experience are what really set you apart.

Giving back to you
At Alzheimer’s Society, we value our people and take a total reward approach to pay and benefits. You’ll enjoy a generous double-matched pension scheme, 27 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays and wellbeing days), and access to a free Health Shield Cash Plan, 24/7 EAP, Thrive mental wellbeing support, and virtual GP services. Our Society Plus platform offers exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources, and recognition schemes, while our flexible working, family-friendly policies, and life assurance provide peace of mind and work/life balance. We also offer a free Will-writing service and long service awards to recognise your ongoing commitment.