Community Development Coordinator

About The Role

Are you ready to make a real difference in the community for 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 your communication style to connect with any audience?

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

We have an incredibly rewarding and meaningful opportunity to join us as a Community Development Coordinator (24 hours per week, fixed term until March 2027) with a focus on lived experience and involvement covering the whole of the Coventry area.

This role plays an instrumental part in making strong trusted relationships with people affected by dementia, families and carers within communities and diverse groups to support them to attend workshops and focus 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 be meaningful 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 that individuals, local communities and health services have access to vital information about dementia support, ensuring that lived experience remains a real focus in local communities. This is a highly rewarding and 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 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.

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.

• Actively engage with communities, facilitating and attending…