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Digital and Social Media Manager (Cancer Grand Challenges)
Location: Stratford, London (high flex - we would expect you to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week).
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 pa depending on experience + benefits
Contract Type / Hours: Permanent / Full time 35 hours per week (Other flexible-working requests can also be considered)
Application Deadline: Sunday 9th April at 23.55 This vacancy may close earlier if a high number of applications are received or once a suitable candidate is found, so please do not delay submitting your application to avoid any disappointment.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer
We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we we’re looking for someone talented, someone innovative and ambitious, someone like you.
About the team
Cancer Grand Challenges is a global funding initiative founded in 2020 by the two largest funders of cancer research in the world: Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US (
www.cancergrandchallenges.org
).
Our unique partnership has created an exciting opportunity to bring together the collective insight and expertise of CRUK and NCI and will enable the initiative to scale significantly over the coming years. Cancer Research UK will deliver the initiative on behalf of the partners.
If you’re interested in working for Cancer Grand Challenges, at Cancer Research UK, we have an exciting opportunity for a Digital and Social Media Manager.
What will I be doing?
As the Digital and Social Media Manager you’ll build CGC’s reputation and profile with key global audiences (researchers, donors, funders, industry, people affected by cancer, and the public) by developing and delivering digital communication channels to inform, inspire and engage these audiences with our purpose of making radical progress against cancer to benefit humankind.
You’ll deliver our digital communications to an exemplary standard through attention to detail and an audience-centric approach, whilst staying on top of all new digital trends and technologies that we may want to make use of to ensure we’re ahead of the game.
Key duties include:
Work with colleagues to create a detailed plan for digital communications as an integral and integrated part of the overarching CGC marketing and communications strategy
Develop and cultivate an understanding of the changing information needs of our audiences to ensure digital communications are tailored appropriately
Develop and maintain a social media presence appropriate for our audiences based on audience requirements analysis
Work with colleagues to create, commission and manage the development of creative, dynamic, digital assets (audio, video, flash, animations, images and illustrations) which can be shared across the web and on third-party websites and services
What skills are we looking for?
Relevant experience of managing digital and/or social media channels and campaigns
Excellent understanding of the digital and social media landscape, and relevant experience of the principles and practice of successful digital and social media communications, including using and reporting on web and social media analytics to conduct audience research
Relevant experience of creating, commissioning and copywriting digital content, including rich media content assets (audio and visual), social, news and user-generated content with excellent proofreading, spelling, grammar and accuracy
We’re also looking for you to demonstrate relevant experience of building a specialist network and/or online community
For more information about this role please take a look at the candidate pack -
Digital and Social Media Manager
What will I gain?
Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.
In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.
Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.
We review pay annually and aim to recognise individual performance and achievements.
We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.
Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.
How do I apply?
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.
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There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner.
If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you. We don’t expect everyone to meet all of the criteria listed.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at
recruitment@cancer.org.uk
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Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.