Location – Flexible
Contract type – Full-time
Salary – £80,000
Context
At Alzheimer’s Society we’re determined to make the biggest difference possible for people affected by dementia. Focussing all our efforts on helping people navigate some of the hardest and most frightening times of their lives.
From diagnosis, to adjusting to life with dementia and getting the care and support they need. We are advisors, supporters, fundraisers, researchers, influencers, communicators, technical specialist and more. We are volunteers, we are employees, and we are all here to make that difference.
As trusted experts in their field, this team are business focussed and enable better outcomes for people affected by dementia.
We are committed to:
- Learn from people affected by dementia and enhance what we do for them
- Ensure our services, research and influencing reaches all communities and finding solutions where obstacles
- Address health inequalities across society
- Improve our recruitment processes to ensure we have the right workforce
- Support people to be themselves in the workplace
The main purpose of this role
As the Associate Director, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion you will direct team to deliver outstanding results, working effectively and collaboratively at pace.
You will lead the design, development and delivery of an EDI Strategic vision and plan that delivers outstanding results that contributes to our corporate strategy. You will be the organisation’s strategic advisor for all EDI elements ensuring our influence and reach is increased and our impact shown through embedding change externally and internally.
As a senior leader you have corporate accountability for the operational, day-to-day success of the organisation and its continued growth and development through innovation and collaboration at every level.
Acting as a role model you will drive forward an inclusive and high-performance culture making sure that our values and expected standards of behaviour are embedded across the entire organisation, as well as in your own teams.
Contribution and impact
It’s about Strategic Leadership
- Lead the design, development and delivery of a plan to implement our organisation-wide vision and strategy to become an inclusive organisation
- Lead activity to identify, focus and address health inequalities that impact on people with dementia
- Influence and engage a variety of audiences from senior stakeholders, to secure their partnership in delivering the plan, to our incredible frontline employees and volunteers
- Partner with key groups and individuals, internally and externally, to ensure the plan is appropriate and relevant
- Provide and interpret insight, data, and the latest best practice to inform the development of our plans, commissioning additional research where necessary
- Establish yourself as a trusted subject matter expert to inspire leaders at all levels to drive prioritisation of and commitment to EDI goals
It’s about Strategic Impact
- Using your subject matter expertise to develop and manage plans and budgets that create a step change in performance and impact in EDI
- Be the trusted adviser working across the organisation to embed diversity and inclusion in all of our work
- Working collaboratively to develop and deliver Society wide plans and decisions that ensure the Corporate Strategy is realised
- Provide specialist knowledge and expertise on legislation governing diversity and inclusion and shape organisational policy, process and practice
- Ensuring the voices of people affected by dementia always shape the way we think, act and make decisions
- Using data and insights to make evidence based decisions and plans
It’s about People and Leadership
- Providing leadership and direction on all EDI, including leading and delivering an ambitious plan but also embedding those deliverables/changes in all that we do
- Driving a culture of inclusion and high-performance, through clear objectives, behaviours, feedback and communication
- Developing and deliver plans and initiatives that improve organisation capability, capacity and impact for people with dementia
- Role-modelling the Society’s values and leadership competencies in everything we do
It’s about Monitoring, Evaluation and Continuous Improvement.
- Continuously identifying and delivering improvements in quality, efficiency, and effectiveness with a razor-sharp focus on our strategic purpose, in all areas relating to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the wider organisation
- Recommend a range of equality, diversity and inclusion metrics to track organisational progress with inclusion, informed by external good practice and organisational need
- Leading the management of risk and compliance ensuring that the Society meets internal and external requirements and compliance measures
It’s about Internal and External Networks, Partnerships, and Relationship Management.
- Representing the Society externally to protect and enhance our reputation, profile and networks and further our influencing work
- Create the relationships, governance and networks necessary to secure commitment to delivery of the EDI plan
- Work closely with Research and Influence to ensure EDI is embedded in our influencing strategy
- Developing positive, lasting partnerships that drive growth, innovation, performance and impact
- Actively removing siloed working and connect, people, project, insight and trusted expertise to help us work ‘Better together’