Senior Partnerships Manager

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Job description

Are you skilled at networking and developing strategic global partnerships and do you support neurodiversity?

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 development of international partnerships with organisations in the USA, Denmark, Mexico, Hong Kong, Greece and others as the company grows. As a start-up company in an exciting phase of fast growth, you will work closely with the company directors to support the implementation of our business strategy. You will help develop our networks and relationships worldwide. You will be involved in overall business strategy and help to identify potential partnership organisations to support us to scale our training in key countries (starting with USA, Denmark & Mexico). You will be required to build relationships with potential partners who share our mission. You will also work with internal and external stakeholders including trainers and lead partners, academic institutions, autism advocacy organisations and others. You will represent the organisation externally at conferences, events and networking opportunities to raise awareness of Play Included and share our mission.

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 12 th 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.

Remote working may be considered but with 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: