Communications Impact and Coordination Officer London, England
Job description
Permanent contract
- Full time [34.5 hours]. We welcome a conversation with you about the flexible working options available at Macmillan and we are also open to discussing a potential part-time working option based on a 28-hour/4-day week.
Location
- Split between home and our London Office with minimum 1 day per week in the office; or
- Home-based
Salary Range
- £33,000 to £37,000 (full-time equivalent for working 1 day per week in our London office)
- £29,500 to £33,500 (full-time equivalent for working fully home-based)
Would you like to get creative with your number-crunching skills? Do you have a passion for planning, and a desire to use data to tell compelling stories? If so, this could be the role for you. We are looking for a Communications Impact and Coordination Officer to help us join up our Communications activity and support the delivery of the insights we need to have the most impact for people with cancer.
We are striving to do everything we can to ensure that our workforce is representative of the people we support, and those who support us. We advocate for being an inclusive organisation, where everyone can feel that they belong and where there are no barriers to success.
We want every individual to feel empowered to bring their best to work, and that’s why we offer flexibility in our working locations, working hours and benefits so we can support you in your life and your career, and we welcome a conversation about how these options can best support you.
About the role
Our new communications strategy firmly positions the communications division at the heart of Macmillan’s ambition to build awareness, relationships and trust with our key audiences, to help deliver our mission of doing whatever it takes to support people living with cancer.
To do this, we have created a new Communications Impact and Coordination Team within Macmillan to ensure that all communications projects, programmes and activities are aligned, driven by insight, and have impact to drive forward our strategic Communications objectives.
The Communications Impact and Coordination Officer will work across the Communications division to support the alignment of communications projects, programmes and business-as-usual activities. They will manage planning documents and support planning processes, as well as gathering insights about Macmillan’s audiences and activities to share with the wider Communications team to help them develop compelling evidence-based content.
This role sits within the newly formed Communications Impact and Coordination team and is supported by the Communications Impact and Insights Manager and other colleagues. The person in this role will also work with a variety of teams across Macmillan outside of the Communications division, including our Insight & Performance team and our Strategic Marketing Planning team.
The role is a full-time role (34.5 hours per week), either home-based or split between home and our London office with a minimum of 1 day in the office per week. There are various flexible working options available at Macmillan (please see below) and we are also open to discussing a potential part-time working option based on a 28-hour/4-day week. There may be occasional travel to and attendance at external meetings, which would usually be during your usual working hours.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Experience of handling and interpreting data
- A good understanding of what is required for compelling evidence-based content in Communications outputs such as press releases, news stories or social media posts
- Experience of using and improving effective processes and systems
- The ability to build and maintain good working relationships
- The ability to communicate complex information in a clear and accessible way
- The ability to manage multiple projects at the same time
About us
We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. Together, we do whatever it takes for people living with cancer; with heart, with strength and with ambition.
We are striving to do everything we can to ensure that our workforce is representative of the people we support, and those who support us. We advocate for being an inclusive organisation, where everyone can feel that they belong and where there are no barriers to success.
We want every individual to feel empowered to bring their best to work that’s why we commit to actively developing you and offer a range of benefits including private medical insurance, life assurance, pension, generous annual leave, and interest free loans for season ticket, gym membership and a vast range of discounts via our benefit platform which helps make our employees money go further. We also offer flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours and flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm, also contracted 34.5-hour weeks (with early finish on Fridays). We welcome a conversation about how these options can best support you.
Recruitment Process
The application deadline is 23:59 on Sunday 2nd April, with virtual interviews taking place in the week beginning Monday 17th April and Monday 24th April 2023.
In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.
So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan Talent Acquisition Team on [email protected] for advice and recruitment adjustments.
