People Partner

Interviews: There will be a two-stage process comprising of a telephone interview and an in-person interview in June. 

Deadline: Thursday 5 June 2025

This role is part-time, 3 days per week or equivalent (22.5 hours per week)

The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is a globally leading multidisciplinary research institute of over 900 staff investigating the spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders causing dementia, driving a step change in our understanding of neurodegeneration, and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of interventions that will help diagnose, treat, and ultimately prevent dementia.

About You

Partnering our distributed sites you'll be helping us build on our activities with a key focus on our recent Research Inclusion survey where actionable steps to skills and career development will have a positive impact both within the UK DRI and ultimately impacting our research for patients. 

You'll help our wider teams create actionable steps, work in partnership with our Science team on career development and impact, and manage the overall actions for the UK DRI.

What we're looking for is someone to build on our ideas, bring these to life, and ultimately manage the data reporting. To give you an idea, projects will include schools outreach and women's PhD mentoring, where you will work with local experts across the UK DRI and help bring these to life across the network and measure.

You'll also be working on other people activities and work collaboratively across all teams, therefore flexibility and confidentiality will be key.

This is a new role, part-time, and would suit someone who is comfortable working alone and as part of a distributed team. You'll join a small People team where our programme of activities are focussed on our vision of healthy brain ageing for all. 

The role can be based anywhere in the UK as long as you can travel to our Core team office at Regents Place in London and to our distributed sites as required.

Other key skills to be successful include:

• Understanding and experience of inclusion within a distributed organisation.
• Strong project management and organisational skills. The ability to deliver work on time and responsively.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills. Able to present to diverse audiences and build positive working relationships.
• A proactive and solutions-focused approach to problem-solving. Attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Confidence in navigating and driving change within matrix-style organisations.
• Understanding of inclusion, skills and career development within a research and/or academic settings desirable.
• Experience of working in and supporting a people function.

What we offer

As well as a competitive base salary and the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits (pro-rata) including:

• 27 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays

• Up to 6 business closure days

• Option to purchase 5 days’ annual leave

• Single medical cover

• Group Life Assurance 4x base salary

• Group Income Protection and Critical illness cover

• Season ticket loan

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

• Employee assistance programme

• Comprehensive programme of voluntary benefits

The UK DRI currently operates hybrid working.

About the UK DRI

Today, over 1M people in the UK are living with dementia and related neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and motor neuron disease (MND). The impact of these incurable and progressive conditions on individuals and their families is devastating. Societal costs are staggering and growing as the population ages.

Due to major advances in our understanding of the biology of these disorders the field is at an inflection point with the next decade promising to deliver transformative breakthroughs in therapies and a new era of predictive, preventative, and precision medicine. The UK is well placed to play a leading role in this revolution due to its strengths in science required for discovery and delivery, led by the UK DRI working with our world-class university-based centres. To find out more about the UK's leading biomedical research institute dedicated to neurodegenerative diseases, visit. UK Dementia Research Institute.

To apply

Please submit your CV and covering letter detailing why you wish to join the UK DRI and your experience for this role.

No agencies please.

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK for this role.

By applying to this role, you understand and agree that your information will be shared within the UK DRI People & Culture team and/or any team members who will be part of the hiring process.

UK DRI is committed to equal opportunities.

The UK DRI embraces diversity, inclusion and accessibility for all of our people. We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do. This means ensuring our recruitment processes are barrier-free and as inclusive as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.