Health Community Engagement Officer

HEALTH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICER

Salary: £29,000 - £31,000 per annum

Reports to: Senior Health Community Engagement Manager (Talk Cancer)

Department: Policy, Information and Communications

Location: Stratford w/ high-flex (1-2 days per week in the office). We are open to discussing further flexible working for the successful candidate.

Employment type: Permanent

Working hours: 35 hours per week

Closing date: Sunday 17 November 2024, 23:55

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

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 who shares our vision, someone like you.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Health Community Engagement Officer. We need you to support the day-to-day planning, delivery and development of the Talk Cancer training programme and the Cancer Awareness Roadshow activity - working with internal stakeholders and an external agency to ensure seamless delivery of our activities.

What will I be doing?

• Organising the logistics of the Talk Cancer workshops, maintaining the training diary and activity logs as well as preparing information for trainees

• Acting as a primary point of contact for Talk Cancer's clients during the workshop planning process

• Inputting and maintaining evaluation data for the Talk Cancer and Roadshow teams - creating reports and evaluation summaries where required

• Acting as a moderator for Talk Cancer online workshops and the Talk Cancer Facebook group

• Working with the Roadshow Manager and Senior Officer to coordinate the logistics for the Cancer Awareness Roadshow activity, ensuring effective administration of resource to cover all activities, staff visits and staff volunteering activities

• Monitoring the team email inboxes, triaging queries from internal and external stakeholders and resolving problems where possible

• Delivering team finance support, including raising purchase orders, processing payments and support with invoicing

• Monitoring resource and publication usage across the two teams - ensuring that stock levels and procurement/courier processes are appropriately managed.

What skills are you looking for?

• Excellent organisational and administrative skills with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks to meet deadlines

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and excellent attention to detail

• Strong interpersonal skills, with proven ability to build and maintain good working relationships

• Solution-focussed, with a good eye for spotting opportunities

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team

• Initiative to review processes and activity, with the confidence to proactively offer own insight and suggestions

• Comfortable with basic data handling, analysis and reporting, and a good understanding of data protection

• Relevant experience of working with various digital platforms and MS Office applications.

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. Please note, you will also be asked to complete a short screening question.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

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. Please contact [email protected] or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

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.