Strategic Outreach & Engagement Advisor – Inclusive Training

Strategic Outreach & Engagement Advisor – Inclusive Training

Ongoing role
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At a glance

Skills

  • Campaigning
  • Copywriting / Journalism
  • Marketing strategy
  • Public relations
  • Social media marketing
  • Business development / Sales
  • Commissioning / Contracting
  • Business advice / analysis
  • Market research

Where

London, N22 5QH
Mainly at home
Travel limit? n/a

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
1-3 hours / week or 3-7 hours / week
n/a

Deadline

11 Oct 2025

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Help us grow the reach of vital training in neurodiversity and inclusive practice. We’re looking for someone with insight into comms and public engagement to help us rethink how we connect with schools, councils, and the wider community.

What will you be doing?

We’re looking for someone who can help us rethink and relaunch how we promote and position the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training — a crucial offer for anyone working with or around neurodivergent people.

You won’t be asked to “sell a product” — we’re asking for help connecting the value of this training to the people who need it most.

The training is designed to support professionals in understanding the needs, rights, and perspectives of neurodivergent people — something essential in education, health, social care, youth services, and more.

But we’ve found that many professionals:

  • Believe they’ve already done equivalent training (even if it’s not the same)
  • Aren’t sure why this training matters or how it applies to them
  • Simply don’t respond to our outreach, especially in busy institutions like schools

We’re seeking a volunteer who can help us:

  • Reposition the training — so people see why it matters now
  • Identify new audiences and sectors who might benefit (e.g. housing, youth orgs, community centres, FE colleges)
  • Craft language and messages that connect emotionally and practically
  • Advise us on better outreach strategies, tone, and channels
  • Possibly support us with campaign ideas, key messages, or simple creative assets

You might be a:

  • Public sector communications specialist
  • Health, education, or local government engagement advisor
  • Campaigns or marketing lead from the charity sector
  • Strategist with a passion for shifting cultural norms and improving inclusion

This is an opportunity to use your skills to bring neuroinclusive training to life — and reach people who need it but don’t yet realise it.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for someone who understands how to reach people with a message that matters — especially in busy, public-facing sectors like education, local government, health, and community services.

This role is ideal for someone who’s strategic, empathetic, and creative — someone who knows how to get professionals to pause, listen, and recognise the value of something they might otherwise overlook.

You might be:

  • A communications or outreach specialist in the public or third sector
  • A campaigns lead who’s run awareness-raising work around inclusion, health, education, or youth issues
  • Someone with experience engaging local authorities, schools, NHS teams, or care providers
  • A behaviour change or engagement strategist used to tackling public apathy or misconception
  • A connector or advisor with insight into where untapped interest might lie

We’d love for you to help us:

  • Reframe our offer in a way that feels timely, valuable, and urgent
  • Rethink our language, messaging, and channels — what we say and how we say it
  • Identify new target audiences or routes into institutions and networks
  • Advise on how to make our outreach feel more personal and relevant
  • Help us build the confidence and clarity to continue outreach more effectively in the future

Qualities we value:

  • Insight into how public sector professionals think and make decisions
  • Strong writing and messaging instincts
  • An interest in inclusion, neurodiversity, and social change
  • A collaborative, low-ego approach — we’re learning and open to ideas
  • Curiosity, persistence, and the ability to “see around corners”

You don’t need to execute every campaign or send every email — we’re looking for someone who can help us think and act more strategically, and maybe even unlock new networks or approaches we haven’t tried.

Whether you have a background in comms, behaviour change, campaigning, or stakeholder engagement — your skills could make a real difference in helping professionals engage more meaningfully with neurodivergent people.

What difference will you make?

You’ll help us unlock a key challenge: how to get crucial neurodiversity training in front of people who are either unaware, unsure, or unconvinced of its relevance.

By helping us rethink our outreach and positioning, you’ll:

  • Ensure professionals across sectors are better informed and equipped to support neurodivergent individuals
  • Strengthen our credibility and visibility as a trusted training provider
  • Open up new pathways to reach organisations and sectors we haven’t yet connected with
  • Help ensure that mandatory doesn’t mean “tick-box” — but real change in how people think and act

Your support will help bring this training into schools, community organisations, and local services in a way that feels needed, timely, and impactful — rather than just another obligation.

Before you apply

Please contact us via Reach with any questions.

Causes
  • Learning disabilities / difficulties
  • Organisation type: 
    Not for profit

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