[Hiring] Volunteering Partnerships and Implementation Manager @Alzheimer's Society

Role Description

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?

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.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and people management skills.
• Ability to develop a high performing team through empowerment, delegation, and coaching.
• Advanced knowledge of the value volunteers add and the impact they bring to organisations.
• Up-to-date knowledge of the law relating to volunteering and volunteering best practice, principles, and procedures.
• Experience involving volunteers, volunteer managers, or people with lived experience in projects or tasks.
• Good communication skills with effective interpersonal, collaboration, and influencing skills.

Requirements

• Leading a team of Volunteering Partners including Senior Volunteering Partner.
• Building and maintaining relationships with a specific directorate/function in the Society.
• Ensuring communication, engagement, and support is relevant to directorate/functional groups.
• Contributing to future strategy and plans and leading workstreams for ongoing improvement of volunteering.
• Building credibility and trust-based relationships with managers and leaders across the directorates/functions.
• Proactively using data and insight from directorate/functions to inform ongoing improvement.
• Ensuring implementation of strategic changes within directorate/functions in line with volunteering strategy.
• Overseeing the planning, delivery, and post-action activity for the bi-annual Volunteer Voice Survey.

Benefits

• Support for a strong work-life balance.
• Range of benefits and recognition for employees.
• Various learning programmes to support development and career growth.

Company Description

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.