Advocacy, Marketing and Communications Manager

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Job description

Are you looking to be the Advocacy, Marketing, and Communication Manager for a growing social enterprise, and do you support neurodiversity? We are seeking an energetic and creative person to develop and drive these functions and increase our profile internationally.

Play Included C.I.C. is a social enterprise and the leading resource in the Brick-by-Brick® programme, a learning through play concept to support children (including neurodivergent children such as autistic children) to socialise together and develop skills through collaborative LEGO® building.

Play Included is a LEGO Foundation partner. We act as a learning centre, offering training in the Brick-by-Brick® programme for health and education professionals as well as free resources for schools and home.

We are a small team with a big ambition. We hope to expand our capacity in order to implement our exciting new business strategy to scale our professional training to more countries around the world.

We are looking for passionate and committed individuals to bring their excellent skills and experience to join our friendly, hard-working and inspiring team.

We are an inclusive employer and we recognise the benefits of neurodiversity within our team.

Further information about Play Included C.I.C. can be found on our website.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

The post holder will lead on the team's advocacy, marketing and communications work for the Brick-by-Brick® programme and any new Play Included projects. Working closely with the LEGO Foundation communications team, LEGO Group communications and external advocacy and communications consultants, your job will be to raise the profile of the Brick-by-Brick® programme. You will advocate for the needs of autistic children and their families. You will also develop a strong advocacy, marketing and communications plan and content for the organisation. As a start-up company in an exciting phase of fast growth, you will define our processes as we grow, working closely with the company directors, the partnerships manager and the rest of the team to support the implementation of our business strategy, including scaling to multiple geographies.

Full Job specification is available

Play Included C.I.C. is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. You and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (Protected Characteristics).

Thank you for taking the time to apply for this role. We will try to reply to all job applicants however if we receive a very high number of applications then we may not be able to respond and if you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date then we regret to advise that this means that your application has not been selected to progress through to the next stage of our recruitment process.

Closing date for applications is 12th December 2021. We reserve the right to extend the closing date if not enough applications are received.

Interviews will be held mid to late January 2022.

Interviews will take place at The Officers Mess Business Centre, Royston Road, Duxford, CB22 4QH.

Please include a cover letter describing how you would be suitable for this role.

Part-time/job share may be considered

Remote working may also be considered but with a minimum of 1 day a week in the office.

A basic DBS check will be required for the successful candidate.

No agencies please

If you wish to discuss the job role, then please contact Dr Gina Gomez de la Cuesta, Director Tel: .