Influencing and Engagement Officer

94% of our colleagues rate Age Scotland as a great place to work

Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.

We support and enable hundreds of communities and older people’s groups across Scotland. We provide information, friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with our Friendship Line and much more.

We work in Scotland with older people’s groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in their local community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.

This is an exciting and varied role which works to enable people living with dementia and care partners to shape policy and practice in Scotland ensuring their voices are at the heart of our work. Supporting Age Scotland’s Dementia team to build and maintain relationships with people living with dementia through regular meeting groups and informal sessions, this will involve in person meets as well as online.

This role will contribute to identifying and developing opportunities for bringing about lasting change through parliamentary processes, campaigning, and influencing activities, working in co-production with people with lived experience of dementia to achieve this. 

Working as part of the Consolidate Project, led by Heriot-Watt and delivered using a co-production approach across sectors, including academic, third sector and technological, this role will have a particular focus on co-designing opportunities for needs led solutions, that optimise living independently with Dementia using accessible technology. 

Technology solutions need to be accessible to all which is why there will be a focus on ensuring the Consolidate network will reach ethnic, socioeconomically disadvantaged and geographically remote communities. 

This Scotland-based role offers a hybrid working arrangement, combining office work (Edinburgh-based), community engagement, and remote work. The position requires a minimum of 40% of working time each month to be spent in the office or engaging with the community.

In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package: 

• Generous holiday allowance of 39 days (FTE)  

• A range of learning and development opportunities 

• Company sick pay 

• Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health 

• Discounted gym membership 

• Cashback scheme from major retailers 

• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9% 

• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme 

• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary 

• Cycle to work scheme 

• Paid carers leave and dependents’ support 

• The option to buy more holidays or sell them 

• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies. 

 Full details of the role are available below. We would encourage you to contact recruitment@agescotland.org.uk with any queries about this role. 

Closing date: 12 noon on Monday 3rd March 2025 

Interviews will take place in Edinburgh on the afternoons of Tuesday 11th & Wednesday 12th March.