Risk Advisor, Cancer Research
£27-30k
Office located in Stratford, London
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£27-30k
Office located in Stratford, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Self-starter and someone who will take the initiative proactively. Works independently and autonomously, managing day to day workload and priorities, exercising judgement when escalating
- Relevant experience of working in a risk management team environment (any organisation)
- Relevant experience of operating risk management processes in a second line risk function
- Organisation and logistics skills
- Ability to build effective working relationships across departmental boundaries
- Resilient and committed team worker
- Calm, confident and articulate communicator who can concisely communicate information and concepts to colleagues and memorably imparts information to colleagues and/or customers, guiding and enabling them to understand other points of view
- Influences others effectively, including at a senior level, using clear and persuasive arguments, building internal networks for collaboration and knowledge sharing with other parts of the charity
- Demonstrates a good understanding of the Charity's broader strategy and how it impacts and influences the work of the Risk team
- General technology skills (Microsoft suite of standard tools, use of AI prompts)
- Competent in data and metricsfor analysis of risk to inform associated risk reporting
- Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
- Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period before applying for other roles. You should also advise your current line manager at the point you make an internal application, or at the latest, at the point of being invited for an interview
- Completed their getting started period
- Discussed their intention to apply and gained approval to apply with their line manager
- Been in their substantive (home) role for at least 6 months (this is only applicable if you have previously been on secondment)
- If you do not confirm that you meet these requirements, we will not be able to progress your application
What the job involves
- Hours: Part time 21 hours per week
- Reports to: Risk Management & Business Continuity Lead
- Contract: 9 month fixed-term contract
- Support and enable the running of the CRUK Operational Risk Committee – clerking, governance, organisation, attendee liaison, metrics and reporting
- Contribute ideas to, and support project management of, the wider development of a revised approach to risk and assurance in CRUK
- Working together with colleagues in the Assurance function, support development and operation of Risk Assurance Map (RAM)
- Support and enable delivery of risk management related improvement projects
- Support update of content of function-owned key policies and related documents
- Support delivery of End of Year Assurance process and associated reporting
- Support other work of the Risk department as required
Application process
- End Date: June 23, 2026
- Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews
Salary benchmarks
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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