IT & AI Strategy Consultant

IT & AI Strategy Consultant (Volunteer)

Are you an experienced IT strategist with a passion for helping a dementia health promotion charity leverage new technologies for greater impact? Umbrella Dementia Cafes (UDC) is seeking a skilled professional to volunteer their expertise. We need a consultant to audit and assess our current IT systems, identify opportunities for improvement and create a roadmap for scalable and cost-effective IT practices, with a special focus on integrating artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct a comprehensive audit of our current safety responses, our hardware, software and current IT infrastructure. Identify the problems, pain points and outdated or ineffective processes.
• Provide strategic recommendations to improve cost-effectiveness and enable organisational scaling, including an analysis of our existing subscriptions, a CRM that’s right for us, with an overall focus on highest return on long-term investment for our non-for-profit environment. .
• Identify potential AI use cases that align with our mission and operational needs (e.g., automating administrative tasks, enhancing data analysis, improving donor communication or optimising resource allocation).
• Develop a framework for maximising the value of our existing software subscriptions and implementing new AI technologies.
• Provide specific training we need to imbed the new systems in our everyday processes.
• Work collaboratively with our small team to pilot changes to allows us to test the technology, measure its impact and learn before investing in major changes.
• Author a detailed scope of work including IT jargon required for us to employ or recruit specific IT consultants who’ll implement the identified requirements.
• Future proofing for ethical growth and work with CEO to write an ethical policy and organisational guidelines for how AI is used at UDC.

This is a high-impact, short-term volunteer role perfect for a professional looking to use their skills to make a tangible difference in dementia support community. You will work directly with our founder and operational team leadership to lay the foundation for a more efficient, scalable and sustainable future whereby we can support more families experiencing the challenging impact of dementia.