Involvement & Engagement Officer

3 weeks ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Alzheimer's Research UK Full time

**Posted**:22/11/2023 10:35**Salary**:Circa £29,000 per annum**Location**:Agile**Level**:Officer**Deadline**:10/12/2023 23:59**Hours**:35.00**Benefits**:Competitive**Job Type**:PermanentThe Involvement & Engagement Officer will play a crucial role in delivering the new patient and public involvement and engagement strategy for Alzheimer’s Research UK.

The role forms part of the Involvement & Engagement team, previously known as the Public Engagement team. The team has a growing focus on patient and public involvement, managing a key group of involvement volunteers, supporting colleagues and dementia researchers through developing guidance and training, and enabling best practice. The team also delivers public engagement initiatives, with the aim of making dementia research accessible and inspiring to the public through face-to-face events and participatory projects and supporting and training researchers to deliver engagement. The team also supports fundraising colleagues and activities through helping to embed and enhance ways to engage supporters with dementia research.

The team forms part of the busy Communications & Involvement department and works closely with colleagues both within the department and across the charity. The department’s mission is to improve understanding of dementia and the diseases which cause it and encourage and support the public and people affected by dementia to get involved in research. The evolving remit of the team means this role has significant scope to shape and develop this area of work.

**Main duties and responsibilities of the role**:

- Working with the Involvement & Engagement Manager to implement ARUK’s public involvement and engagement strategy.
- Facilitate, plan and deliver the work of the Insight and Experience Panel, including liaising with members and providing dementia specific assistance, arranging logistics for meetings, responding to queries and liaising with internal stakeholders.
- Support the recruitment of new lived experience representatives, with a focus on improving representation from people with a dementia diagnosis and those from underserved communities.
- Responsibility to ensure records relating to involvement work are kept up to date in line with ARUK policies and procedures.
- Helping to develop and deliver training on engagement and involvement for the panel, colleagues, and the research community.
- Work closely with the Public Involvement Officer and wider Research team, sharing knowledge and insights and supporting their work focussed on involvement in research. Collaborate on special projects relating to involvement as appropriate.
- Act as a champion for public involvement across ARUK, effectively communicating the importance of involvement in the charity’s work and supporting colleagues to effectively incorporate involvement into key projects and initiatives.
- Coordinate and deliver public engagement events, both online or in-person, that engage people with the topic of dementia and the importance of research, such as around ARUK’s annual Research Conference.
- Support colleagues to effectively engage with their audiences, creating and maintaining compelling activities and resources that bring dementia research to life.
- Maintain relationships with the ARUK Research Network and facilitate Centres in the planning, promotion and delivery of public events.
- Working with the Involvement & Engagement Manager to produce ongoing evaluation of the involvement and engagement programme, proactively coming up with suggestions for new initiatives and continuous improvement of the programme.

**What we are looking for**:

- Experience in coordinating or delivering public engagement and/or patient and public involvement.
- Experience in project management, with the ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience of discussing and communicating health or research matters with the public.
- Experience building and managing relationships with colleagues and external partners.
- Experience translating complex science for a lay audience.
- Strong and effective written and spoken communication skills, ability to tailor to lay audiences.
- Ability to communicate appropriately with people affected by dementia and their families.
- Ability to find creative solutions to complex problems.
- Excellent organisational skills; the ability to coordinate various projects with different deadlines.
- A confident and friendly manner; would feel at ease representing the charity to a range of audiences to a high level.
- Creativity, innovation and resourcefulness to identify opportunities and develop initiatives relating to involvement and engagement.
- Ability to work with independence, intelligence, drive and initiative.
- Good IT skills.
- Willingness and ability to travel in the UK occasionally and to work outside of regular office hours when needed.

**Additional Information**:
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