Internal Communications Officer, Cancer Research
Trading
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of tailoring messages to different audience needs
- Relevant experience of planning and executing multi-channel communications plans
- Good organisational skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities to meet regular deadlines
- Good interpersonal skills and experience of building relationships with internal stakeholders
- Attention to detail and an eye for proofreading
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and using a content management system to publish content – experience using SharePoint for content creation would be a significant advantage
- Able to manage and prioritise multiple enquiries – experience managing shared inboxes is desirable
What the job involves
- Delivering regular, impactful internal communications to Trading including intranet content and e-newsletters
- Developing and executing multi-channel, audience-led communications plans to support Trading and CRUK’s objectives, coordinating stakeholder sign-off as needed
- Project managing and prioritising communications requests in shared inboxes, working with stakeholders from across the charity to deliver communications in a timely manner
- Responding to and proactively actioning stakeholder enquiries on behalf of the Trading Internal Comms team
- Working closely with other internal communications colleagues to tailor and repurpose org-wide messages for Trading staff
- Supporting urgent internal communications responses to crises, pulling together key messages at pace
- Reviewing the impact of communications and making suggestions for tweaks and improvements based on analytics, presenting back regular insights
- Delivering operational and administrative communications tasks to a high standard
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been long-standing pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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