Strategic Communications Officer

Are you a good communicator, able to build positive relationships with key stakeholders and internal teams? Do you want to contribute to communications campaigns and be part of a team that ensures our activity makes Alzheimer’s Society the go-to choice for people concerned or wanting to learn more about dementia? 

We are recruiting for a Strategic Communications Officer to join on a permanent, home-based contract. This is a full-time role, working 35 hours per week.

We are building a new Strategic Communications Team to foster collaboration, enhance clarity and consistency across our channels and improve efficiencies in how we work. As our new Strategic Communications Officer you will work alongside the Senior Strategic Communications Manager and Senior Strategic Communications Officer, contributing to and delivering operational activity across our external-facing channels, to ensure our work is strategic, joined up and impactful.

You will help ensure our communications activity is integrated and co-ordinated across the organisation and you’ll assist with the planning and evaluation of our high priority ‘moments’, ensuring our activity makes Alzheimer’s Society the deliberate go-to choice for people concerned or interested about dementia.

In this role you’ll be working closely with media, social media, celebrity and ambassador, internal communications and brand and marketing functions on a daily basis and you’ll look to build strong relationships with colleagues across the wider organisation.

About you
Joining us, you’ll have experience working on marketing and/or communications projects and knowledge of the key marketing and communications channels. You’ll also be able to remain organised and prioritise effectively while managing multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.

Crucially, due to the collaborative nature of this role, you’ll need to have good written and communication skills combined with the ability to work effectively with others and build positive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

What you’ll focus on:

• Managing the communications calendar and helping with the running of the Integrated Communications Forum, ensuring consistent messaging, timely execution, and effective coordination across channels and among teams.
• Managing traffic of briefing documents and contributing to the running of the Society’s communications briefing process across teams and channels, ensuring a shared understanding of project's goals, scope, and objectives among stakeholders, leading to smoother project execution and improved outcomes.
• Providing operational project-management support on complex communications campaigns, working with teams across the Society to ensure maximum impact.
• Providing reporting of our external communications to the organisation and produce one off reports as required.
• Building relationships with colleagues across the organisation, representing the communications functions in meetings to ensure our communications priorities are clear across the organisation.
• Driving equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging considerations through all your work, both internal and external facing.

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.

Our values make sure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead and remind us of what we all stand for.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer's Society.  

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society. 

Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee forum and Employee Lived Experience network groups help us promote inclusion and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people. 

Our hiring process

During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and can be at your best. We are working hard to ensure our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible, so please do inform us of your experience and anything you think we could do better by completing our candidate survey when you apply.  Please also contact Alzheimer’s Society Talent Acquisition Team via [email protected] for application support or any adjustments you might need.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. We recognise the benefits of AI, but if you're considering using it to submit your application, we encourage you to reflect on the value it truly adds. AI tools often lack the personal touch and authenticity that set candidates apart. We want to hear your unique perspective, experiences, and skills, so we encourage you to showcase them in your own voice.

We try to avoid closing roles early where possible, however if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close earlier than the advertised closing date. Should this occur, we will aim to provide you with at least 48 hours' notice.

We are committed to safer recruitment and ensuring the welfare of those we work with, due to the nature of some of our roles, we might need to carry out a DBS check at the relevant level.

Giving back to you

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer's Society. 

You can also visit our Working for Us pages, which give you more information about what it’s like to be an employee at the Society.