Do you feel passionately about improving the life chances of children, young people and families? Are you able to use digital tools to communicate our work and engage our audiences?

Dartington Service Design Lab is an internationally respected social research and design charity focussed on using evidence and design in innovative ways to help those working with children and young people have a greater impact. As an organisation, we have more than 50 years of experience working across the public and voluntary sectors. 

We are boosting our staff with a number of new positions including a communications specialist. The successful candidate may be based across Great Britain and will enjoy a varied role in communicating our work that spans public system reform, service design, improvement methods, with systems thinking/dynamics approaches.

The successful candidate will support delivery of our communications strategy across multiple channels, as well as strengthening our capacity to deliver superb online workshops and events. They will be able to communicate digitally, verbally and on paper extremely well with a wide range of stakeholders. We value empathy and collaboration and a focus on using evidence for social good. 

We need a communicator who is able to quickly add value and integrate into our team, ideally with experience of working in research or policy environments.  Key responsibilities are included in the job description document.

As a team, we operate remotely across Great Britain with regular project-related travel when it is safe to do so. Over the past 4 years we have successfully been using online and video communication tools to deliver our work.  Our staff tend to work from home or when appropriate, together in local co-working spaces, and normally, every quarter we meet as a whole team in our beautiful Devon office.