Content Editor, Our Future Health
£45k
Office located in Holborn, London
Health research programme
Job no longer available
Health research programme
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£45k
Office located in Holborn, London
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll have a deep understanding of what works for the public, and you’ll know how to write accurate and compelling content that drives action
- Writing and editing high-quality content for online and offline channels, ideally with experience within the world of health or research
- Ability to think with a commercial mindset, to produce content that engages as many people as possible
- Experience of working with user research teams
- Be a competent user of CMS tools such as WordPress
- Close eye to detail and design appreciation, with the ability to spot a typo at 100 paces (or in 100 milliseconds)
- Excellent project management skills that allow you to manage work to high standards, tight deadlines and ensure value for money in all content investment
- Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects across multiple teams
- Ability to create content with usability, accessibility, user/customer experience, SEO and plain English principles in mind
- Experience of working in both social good and commercial contexts is advantageous
- Writing engaging content about technical topics to non-technical audiences, ideally health or science-based would be advantageous
- Basic HTML knowledge is desirable
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity for a wordsmith Content Editor who will be an important member of our communications team, delivering high-quality content across all aspects of Our Future Health
- Think invite letters that land on doorsteps, posters that grab attention on the street, and emails that seek to further engage existing volunteers. Our words help people understand what we do, encourage participation, and increase volunteer engagement
- This is a cross-cutting role, working with colleagues across the organisation in our product, public engagement, operations and science teams to understand the needs of our audiences and convert those insights into compelling content
- Write clear, intuitive and compelling copy for our websites, information resources, print collateral, social media accounts, email campaigns, blogs, brochures, newsletters and more
- Work in tandem with our Brand Designer to produce eye-catching and on-message visuals, such as posters and invite letters
- Contribute to new recruitment and engagement opportunities across our public and researcher audiences
- Be a ‘word ninja’, ready to turn your mind to any copy-writing or content marketing task, however big or small
- Be a guardian of our brand across all channels, supporting the rest of the organisation to speak and write with consistency of tone and phrase
- Undertake horizon scanning to create well-informed and inspiring content
- Collaborate with the wider communications team to support the long-term brand strategy
- Help to manage external creative suppliers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of people spend too much of their life with poor health, with medical professionals only able to treat diseases when symptoms start to present. But what if later-life diseases could be prevented earlier through a better understanding of public health? Our Future Health is a ground-breaking new study, aiming to collect a blood sample and a short questionnaire from 5 million members of the British public.
One of the two major strands of genomic study in the UK (the other is the Newborn Genomes Program which will be running in parallel), Our Future Health is set to become the largest health research program in the world. With funding from government and the private sector (with particular interest from pharmaceutical investors) it will cement Britain's reputation as a world leader in genomics, and is expected to lead to major advances in the fight against obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other causes of poor health.
Aside from looking for volunteers for the study, Our Future Health is also seeking engineering talent to help build the infrastructure that will gather, analyse and protect the research data. It will be exciting to see how this charity develops and what discoveries emerge from its data in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
131% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- We have a lovely new office in Holborn, Central London and we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
- We offer all employees a life assurance policy.
- Training support to help you achieve your potential.
- All employees are covered by a group income protection scheme to support them in the event of long term sickness.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Andrew Roddam
(CEO, not founder)Was VP Data Strategy and Global Head of Epidemiology for GSK. Before that was the International Head for Amgen's Centre for Observational Research.
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