Stories & Voices Lead

We’re looking for a passionate storyteller to join us at Mencap as a Stories & Voices Lead, championing inclusive and ethical storytelling across all our campaigns and communications. This role is a full time 37.5 hours (per week) permanent position. If you’re organised, creative, and passionate about inclusion, this is your chance to help change attitudes and break down barriers.

Here at Mencap we understand that some of our office based colleagues can do their role from a range of locations, which is why we like to be flexible. Travel is required to the office in London and other UK locations, depending on storytelling needs.

You’ll lead how we find and share stories from people with a learning disability, their families, and support networks. You’ll make sure stories shape our campaigns, fundraising, and media work, to have real impact. You’ll manage a small team, build relationships with ambassadors and influencers, and make sure every story is told with dignity.

We are challenging the way the UK understands learning disability and are paving the way for even more impactful change to the way learning disability is portrayed in the media.

What will you bring?

• Experience of managing people and projects.
• Experience of working on charity communications campaigns.
• Experience of using databases to effectively manage stories, approvals, consent, etc.
• Highly skilled at building relationships with a variety of people including but not limited to; people with lived experience and those with a significant public profile, whilst maintaining clear professional boundaries.
• Passionate about inclusive and ethical storytelling, with experience managing consent for communications.

This is not an exhaustive list of the role and its requirements, please look at the full job description for further information. This vacancy closes on Monday 12th January, with interviews to be held soon after.

Here at Mencap we operate a blinded recruitment process for a lot of our roles, please ensure you apply with a full application and covering statement.

At Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated. Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings.

About Mencap: Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives. We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.

At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues. Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.

• Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.
• Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes.
• Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long-term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.