Team purpose
The Autism Friendly team works with many organisations looking to create more accessible and inclusive environments, experiences and practice. The Autism Friendly team is designed and delivered as a partnership between Autistic and non-autistic staff. As such, Autistic applicants are encouraged to apply.
About the role:
This is a brand-new role (2 year max term contract), for an industry employment visionary leader with ambition and ability to make a transformational difference. Drawing on your relevant service development, corporate and networking experience you will co-develop a new autism friendly employment service consultancy which, in time, will become sustainable through fee for service income.
A key success indicator is the pilot service is well received by our trial corporate business partners within the first year, and show ability to scale through attracting fee for service income and grant money.
Some responsibilities of the role include:.
- By 3 months, have a project plan in place with clear reportable milestones and KPI’s – for the Executive and grant funder
- Work with the Aspect Research Centre for Autism Practice (ARCAP) to develop a research-based comprehensive autism friendly employment framework
- Spend time synthesizing, research, listen to Autistic people and understand the Autism Friendly team
- Deliver gold standard ‘Working in Partnership between Autistic and non-autistic staff’ at every stage of service development and implementation
- Identify the good practice supports and processes that exist in Aspect (e.g. My Work Profile and Inclusive Interviewing), collate and build new resources until the framework is complete with research-based practice
- By the end of year 1, have delivered two Employment consultancies with corporates with an insights/evaluation reports to keep Executive informed
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