Hybrid Volunteer Brand strategist to support with sponsorship offer | Rise Community Jiu Jitsu CIC Volunteer Brand strategist to support with sponsorship offer | Rise Community Jiu Jitsu CIC

We're looking for someone who is experienced in brand strategy to help us build an offer for sponsors interested in getting involved with an innovative youth and community martial arts project.What difference will you make?We hope this role will have the following impact For the organisation, this will help us clearly develop our strategic vision around who we are, how we communicate and who our partners should be. It will also help bring in more resources at an important time for us and hopefully develop long-term sponsorship opportunities and partnerships. Most importantly though, through a better developed brand strategy and sponsorship opportunities, we will be able to offer more opportunities to more young people and adults to train in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, specifically those in underserved areas.What are we looking for?We'd love to work with someone with experience of brand strategy - not necessarily but ideally at a senior level - and with experience of developing sponsorship or partnership opportunities. You may have worked in sports/physical activity/fitness or been involved in youth/community work before. If you've got an interest in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that would be incredible! But more broadly an interest in martial arts or sports for positive development would be useful. We value positivity, friendliness and flexibility as an early stage social enterprise, but welcome people with all approaches that complement ours.What will you be doing?We're an early stage social enterprise with ambitions to make Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu - an increasingly popular martial art - a new tool for social good! We're interested in speaking to brand strategists and those with experience in sponsorship about the following role.... What you'll do After conversations with our Founder/MD and members of our advisory board, create a plan for a brand strategy for Rise Community Jiu Jitsu. As part of this, we would love you to research organisations you feel would align well with this brand strategy and might be interested in sponsoring us and our community martial arts programmes. These might be organisations in the sport/physical activity/fitness space, or in the youth/community sector, or others! If you have existing contacts in these area it would be a benefit - but not essential - and you'd be welcome to support us in building new relationships with these organisations. The key deliverable(s) -A brand strategy, or considerable steps towards this. -A target list of organisations and contacts who might align well with this strategy and could be approached for sponsorship. -Participating in the next steps beyond this (if so desired!) Who you'll work with You'll work principally with our Founder/MD Tom (writing this post!) but also have the opportunity to talk with members of our advisory board and other relevant stakeholders as needed. There's definitely some flexibility in this role - we're still early on in our journey so welcome any expertise you may have.

Desired Skills and Experience

Marketing strategy, Business development / Sales, Strategic development and planning, Strategic mentoring / coaching, Management consultancy