Community Engagement Partner

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association are seeking a Community & Engagement Partner to join our Association on a two-year fixed term contract, based from our National office Northampton. (Hybrid working with a mix of home and office).

Help us help more people!

The MND Association want to remove real and any perceived barriers to extend our reach into local communities to ensure that the support we offer meets the needs of and works for our members. We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Community Engagement Partner to help drive this work forward. Based at our National office here in Northampton with flexible working

About the role

You will be working directly with local communities to understand their needs, build relationships, remove barriers and develop partnerships whilst equipping and empowering staff and volunteers to do the same.

In this new, dynamic and exciting role, reporting to the Head of Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI), you will play a key part in helping us achieve a step change in delivering our commitment to inclusion.

What are we looking for?

You will be a great people person, able to engage with, encourage and enthuse a broad range of people. You will understand the needs of different local communities and have experience of working with them. You will be collaborative and resourceful.

We particularly welcome applications from people with a disability or impairment and from members of the Black and Minority Ethic community as these groups are under-represented within our workforce.

How to apply?

We would love to hear from you and encourage early applications.

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, please submit your CV in MS Word along with a supporting statement as described in the additional information attachment'.

To arrange an informal discussion about the role please contact the Head of DEI

About Us

The MND Association was founded in 1979. Our mission is to improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We also fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments and brings us closer to a cure for MND. The Association also campaigns and raises awareness so the needs of people with MND, and everyone who cares for them, are recognised and addressed by wider society.

We are agile, flexible and committed to hybrid working using the latest technology and a robust digital infrastructure. Together with a high level of trust and a performance driven culture, gives staff the freedom and flexibility to work in the best way for them, the Association and, most importantly, people with MND.

We value diversity, are committed to equity and are determined to remove perceived and actual barriers to participation for people with and affected by MND, current and future staff, volunteers and stakeholders.

We are members of the Stonewall Champions programme, part of Communication Access UK, signed up to the Disability Confident* programme and are looking at what we need to do to meet the RNIB's Visibly Better Employer quality standard.

*Although we are only at the Disability Confident committed stage we will offer interviews to disabled candidates that meet the requirements for the role and of course make any reasonable adjustments necessary.

Important Notices

We are open to discussing the possibility of variable hours, remote or home working, flexible start and finish times etc.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Our selection process will be multi-stage and may include video call screening, competency-based interview(s) and task(s). It is expected that interviews will be held and tasks performed via Teams or Zoom.

All internal applicants must liaise with their line manager before applying.

We request that recruitment agencies do not contact us in relation to this role. We work hard to fill our roles directly and if assistance is required, we operate a PSL, which currently closed for review. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies/ headhunters.