Internal Communications Officer, Cancer Research
£33-36k
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£33-36k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Experience of planning and delivering cross-channel communications plans
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to produce relevant, engaging and inspiring content with experience of tailoring messages to different audience needs
- 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 at several levels
- Attention to detail and excellent proofreading skills
- Proficient in email building software, Microsoft Office and using a content management system to publish content
- Demonstrable experience of using analytic tools to report on communications performance
What the job involves
- Developing and executing multi-channel, audience-led communications plans to R&I staff to support the directorate's staff engagement objectives, and tailoring organisation-wide messaging to R&I colleagues as needed
- Sourcing and creating high-quality, engaging content suitable for a range of channels, including email and digital
- Ensuring equality and diversity is celebrated and considered as part of all decisions taken
- Managing relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of communications and to maintain buy-in through excellent project and relationship management
- Developing and delivering organisation-wide internal communications plans to communicate our science story to the whole of CRUK
- Developing an ongoing understanding of the communication needs of your audiences to ensure communications plans are tailored appropriately
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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