Licketyspit seeks an experienced and highly motivated General Manager who will have a high level of responsibility and work closely within our core team at the heart of our wider network of freelance actor-pedagogues and Associate Artists. You will have confidence overseeing finance and operations, working closely with the Artistic Director/CEO to support company development and fundraising.

Licketyspit is a small dynamic and pioneering theatre and play organisation with 20 years’ experience. Our work is firmly rooted in the arts and our child centred Storyplay approach has increasingly informed a highly developed understanding of how we can support the development, wellbeing and happiness of early years children and their families and communities.

Licketyspit is a national company based in Glasgow where it has strong connections with local and national partners and our large Children & Families’ Network who share our aims and ethos. Their appreciation and insight into our work is highly rewarding for the staff team.

Licketyspit is a friendly organisation that fosters collegiality while recognising specialist skill areas. Licketyspit has an active and supportive Board of Directors.

(Interviews 16th & 22nd May)

This post is initially for a 12-month fixed term contract with a view to renewal. Licketyspit is an equal opportunities employer. We are open to considering a job-share.

Licketyspit is looking for a Creative Producer for our Children & Families Network (CFN) who is passionate about children’s rights, play and the power of the arts to foster inclusive communities.

The CFN producer is a key role within the core team of Licketyspit, a small dynamic national company. You will be someone who can confidently develop strong relationships with our diverse families and key local and national partners. Children’s rights-based consultation and skilled family engagement are at the heart of your work. You will lead on our online and face-to-face family engagement, with the role including Storyplay session delivery alongside our Actor-Pedagogues, communication management, project management and partnership building.

We are seeking a self-motivated, capable, outgoing, tech savvy, creative person with knowledge and understanding of the challenges associated with poverty, isolation and trauma, who shares our belief in the ability of the arts to empower families and communities and transform the lives of children.

Your induction will include training in our Storyplay approach, the rights-based methodology that underpins Licketyspit’s work. This postholder will increasingly play a pivotal role in the company’s strategic development and policy work.

(Interviews 18th & 23rd May)

This post is initially for a 12-month fixed term contract with a view to renewal. Licketyspit is an equal opportunities employer. We are open to considering a job-share.

Licketyspit is a pioneering Scottish early years theatre company which has rooted its work in transformational drama-led children’s rights-based practice for twenty years. Our work springs from the connection between actors and children as ‘play experts’. Learning to consult children through play has led to a series of highly successful projects on a trajectory of discovery, which has coalesced as – Storyplay – a powerful and flexible children’s rights-based approach & methodology based on shared intergenerational imaginary play.

Storyplay is being used in education, community and arts and cultural contexts; to support refugees and asylum seekers; and as a child consultation methodology through ‘Have Your Say Through Play’. Licketyspit’s Children & Families Network (CFN) is at the heart of our practice. The CFN is an 850-strong community of families who share Licketyspit’s children’s rights ethos and want continuing connectivity and opportunities to take part in Storyplay. Licketyspit’s work is open to all, but the company prioritises its work in areas of high socio-economic challenge. This role is focussed on Licketyspit’s New Scots Integration project, Porridge & Play Hubs – Castlemilk & East End.*

About the role

We are looking for a Communications Co-ordinator (Children & Families Network) to support both our children & family and community engagement, and the way we share and disseminate our rights-based practice more widely. You will be joining a friendly core team of four and be responsible for supporting online and face-to-face communications with families and professionals in the children & families sector; project development; monitoring and evaluation.

We are seeking a self-motivated, capable, outgoing, tech savvy and creative person who shares our belief in the ability of the arts to transform children’s lives. Licketyspit is a national company. This post will work out of our base in Glasgow. Initially for a 12-month fixed term contract with a view to renewal subject to funding. Licketyspit is an equal opportunities employer.

*The project (and role) is part funded by the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. Making management of migration flows more efficient across the European Union