About The RoleWe have a brilliant new opportunity for an exceptional leader to join our team, to help shape the provision of our local dementia support services. You will be a natural collaborator, working with colleagues to influence the provision of dementia support services at a local level, building and maintaining effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure that everyone affected by dementia can access high quality impactful support.You will lead, coach and support your teams to achieve greater reach and impact for people affected by dementia through high quality dementia support services. This will involve a focus on supporting people from the point of diagnosis and reaching underserved communities.As an experienced leader, you will use your experience and skill to drive improvements by partnering with teams across teams at Alzheimer’s Society. You will do this by balancing engagement with progress, while ensuring that our work is informed by lived experience, the latest evidence and aligned to our policy and influencing priorities.You must have demonstrable knowledge and experience of working in the health and social care sector, a passion for the role of the voluntary sector, along with experience of commissioning and service delivery in this environment. You will understand the importance of relationships to achieving our ambitions, maintaining strong internal and external networks, with key stakeholders.This is a home-based role (hybrid working considered), but you will be required to travel to attend meetings and team-days, so you must reside in the UK, have the correct right to work documents to work in the UK and be comfortable/willing to occasionally travel to our offices (including London, Birmingham, Warrington) when required. About you Be a strategic leader and role model for a large, dispersed staff and volunteer team, who drives forward an inclusive, collaborative and high performing culture – making sure that organisational priorities and values embedded across the teams you support. Committed to ensuring the lived experience of people affected by dementia informs our work while tackling inequalities in access to our dementia support. Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. Negotiates and persuades effectively and achieves aims with tact and diplomacy, balancing interests and maintaining relationships. Verbal and written communication skills to liaise with a diverse range of stakeholders, including being comfortable speaking with someone affected by dementia. Experienced at using data, evidence and insight to support decision making. Excellent organisational skills and great attention to detail. Advocate for Alzheimer’s Society, demonstrating passion and resilience to make a difference. Interview date: Wednesday 16 April via Microsoft Teams Second stage interview: Wednesday 23rd April via Zoom