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The Role

Pancreatic cancer is such a devasting disease that those who come into contact with it are left with a significant imprint that often compels them to want to make a difference and support our fight to address the inequities and injustice around diagnosis, treatment, and survival rates. Those with lived experience or with a passion to join us in our fight, often choose to support us in different ways, some through donations and raising money but for others giving their time, energy, and commitment in a different way – by volunteering and/or being involved in our organisational approach. Making sure that we are harnessing those energies effectively and demonstrating the impact of doing that is vital as well as creating a positive experience for everyone who engages with us, actively supports our efforts, and contributes to our way of thinking.

In developing our plan that elevates our volunteering service offering and creates a better platform for us to ensure that we incorporate voices of lived experience, we have created this new role which brings together several key areas of engagement for our organisation and in relation to this disease work in close harmony with each other.

Bringing Involvement and Volunteering together creates synergy for us, but we recognise that it is very different in other organisations. We are in the process of reviewing both of these areas, so this is an excellent time to join us and be instrumental in shaping what we do in the future.

About You

• We are looking for someone who can drive and influence change and implement processes in a way that creates buy-in, engagement, and commitment.
• Have experience in developing a positive culture of volunteer involvement, innovation, and continuous improvement as well as experience of shaping volunteering within third or public-sector organisations.
• Have an understanding of the world of Involvement and Participation
• Are resilient and able to tackle challenges in a creative and dynamic way.
• Have great collaboration and facilitation skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and projects. You can also comfortably demonstrate experience of working across teams and have the ability to forge productive collaborative relationships, foster engagement and commitment from internal stakeholders and develop processes and plans with an end-user lens.
• Able to inspire those that you are working alongside confidently and be solution and service focussed on the way that you partner with them.
• Be passionate about making a difference for volunteers and those affected by Pancreatic Cancer and helping them to get the best out of the way they engage with us.

About Working for Us

This is a fast-paced and growing organisation that is really committed to making a difference. Being a part of our team is being part of a thriving, positive, dynamic, successful, and welcoming community that is making an impact. We will support you and develop you should you wish this, and you get the opportunity to be involved in activities outside the scope of your immediate role. We care about your health and well-being and your work-life balance, and you will feel that your contribution is valued and matters.

About Us

Pancreatic cancer is a tough one but we're taking it on. It is tough to diagnose, tough to treat and tough to research. For too long this disease has been side-lined. We want to make sure that everyone affected by it gets all the help they need. Together we are taking on pancreatic cancer. Underpinning this vision are our four values:

• Pioneering
• Compassion
• Determined
• Integrity

We cannot achieve our vision without employing people who are committed to our vision, strategy and values.

At PCUK our ambition is to create an inclusive working environment which reflects the communities and audiences that we engage with and where everyone can be their true selves, where they feel respected, championed, heard and supported. We want our workforce to achieve their potential, understand their contribution and feel proud of their impact by creating a culture and organisation that is genuinely inclusive by advancing equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging through our policies and practices.

We believe diversity drives great outcomes through encouraging the different points of view that come from a diverse workforce. We want to hear from and engage with people whose experience of dealing with this disease may be very different depending on their individual circumstance and background can think no better way to do this by ensuring that this role fully represents our intent therefore we are especially keen consider applications from suitable applicants who consider themselves to be in areas that appear underrepresented within the charity sector.

How to apply

• You can download the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role. If you have any questions about this role that we’ve not answered, please get in touch with us at [email protected].
• To apply, please complete the online application form, setting out why you are interested in the role and how you meet the person specification criteria. This information will be used to select candidates for interviews.
• We will also consider applications from remote candidates who are based in the UK and the salary will be £41,586.25 per annum.
• You will need to have the right to work in the UK as we are not able to provide sponsorship for this role
• Please note that interviews will be held on the week commencing 6 March 2023.

No agencies/sales call please – as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down and therefore will not be engaging agencies to support this recruitment.