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Social Media Officer

£28,000 - £30,450 per year

Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge Office

What the job involves

Telling inspirational stories. Dispelling myths. Empowering men to advocate for their own healthcare. Breaking down innovative research. Activating partnerships with some of the UK’s leading brands. All of this will be part of your role as you create eye-catching, sector-leading content.

Sitting in our newly formed Digital Marketing and Channels team, the Social Media Officer is a key role in the Communications team where you’ll be involved in the planning and creation of eye-catching social media content produced to inspire action and engaging our warm supporters.

You'll work closely with the Senior Social Media Officer to evaluate performance, optimise our approach, and share valuable insights with the wider team—ensuring our social media drives impact and reflects our brand.

With a knack for storytelling and an eye for engaging content, you'll help us connect with our audiences and grow our online community. You’ll know how to keep our followers engaged, excited, and valued, ensuring our channels thrive.

You’ll manage a content calendar, test new opportunities, and track performance to continually improve our social presence. Supporting colleagues and volunteers, you’ll provide advice on managing online communities and help teams across the organisation make the most of social media.

Please note internally this role is known as Digital Channels Officer – Social Media.

What we want from you

We’re looking for someone that has experience in managing a multi-channel social media calendar and experience in producing high-quality written and visual online content in a consistent brand tone of voice. With a passion for digital communications, you’ll be well versed in social media best practice and be able to identify new content formats and platforms to engage our audience. As such, you’ll need to have some experience in creating assets for social media, whether that’s static images, videos, animated gifs, or audio.

You’ll be a self-assured and self-motivated person, comfortable working collaboratively with teams across the organisation to deliver eye-catching content within a balanced content calendar. With experience advising and empowering colleagues to use social media effectively, you’ll help them meet their own objectives while ensuring our channels remain engaging and impactful.

Data-driven and results-focused, you’ll be comfortable in using insights and reporting to refine and improve our social media strategy continuously. Whether working solo or as part of a team, you’ll bring creativity, adaptability, and a proactive mindset to help Prostate Cancer UK make a bigger impact online.

Why work with us?

Every man needs to know about the most common cancer in men – prostate cancer. It’s a real and present danger that takes over 12,000 of our dads, grandads, brothers and friends each year.

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men’s health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition – to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We’re blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you’ll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

What we offer

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We’ll support you to develop your skills and expertise.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

• Generous leave entitlements that increase with service
• One ‘development day’ a month to use for training or personal development
• Enhanced contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance and group income protection
• Health Cash Plan
• Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts
• Loans for season tickets or cycles

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

At Prostate Cancer UK we’re committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men. This includes ground-breaking research into Black men's risk and working with communities directly to overcome barriers to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. To make this happen, we're dedicated to being an inclusive, proactive organisation, as we strive to be Allies to Black communities. We’ll achieve this by advocating and working alongside those communities to promote change. We're also working to be Allies to each other, not only protected groups. In 2024, we launched our New Ally Ship Training Programme. All colleagues at Prostate Cancer UK will be trained to act and identity as an Ally.

We've also signed Business in the Communities Race at Work Charter, as a dedication to our Black health equity work and wider EDI priorities. As a signatory, we're responsible and accountable for driving positive change.

Our people networks

We’re continuously learning more about the needs of our colleagues, and have three amazing People Networks, sponsored by our Leadership team:

• Pride – A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues — and our allies — can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people
• Mind & Body – Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affected by neurodiversity, mental health problems, disability and long-term illness
• Culture Club – Here to increase awareness and celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that we have in the organisation, so that we all have our cultures felt and feel welcomed

Wellbeing and hybrid working

Our hybrid working approach combines the best of flexible working – a positive work/life balance, inclusive and accessible platforms, and online information at our fingertips. We understand that everyone has different needs, and we strive to create opportunities for relationship building, collaboration and social time.

Each of our teams has a team agreement outlining when and how often we’re expected to be in our London Bridge office. We’re very welcome to work there more frequently. Office time is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs.

For this role, we would expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office one day per month.

Next steps

The closing date is Sunday 30th March 2025. Applications must be submitted by 23:45 UK time.

Interviews: By arrangement. Currently scheduled for the week of Monday 7th April 2025.

How to apply

To complete your application, you’ll be asked to upload your CV and complete the supporting information section through our application portal. Please fill in parts one and two of our application for your personal statement, both have an 8000-character limit. You may wish to use a method such as the ‘STAR’ technique or similar. When completing the statements please ensure you clearly provide a full and relevant example of how the criteria apply.

PART ONE

Please address the core/essential skills, experience and competencies required using real examples where possible and tell us in what ways you are a good match for the role.

This provides you with a great opportunity to showcase your knowledge, skills and experiences with the most important aspects of this role which will be used in reviewing and shortlisting applications:

• Creating content for social media in a brand tone of voice
• Managing a large online community, including celebrating successes, dealing with complaints, and helping people looking for support.
• Working in collaboration with other teams to deliver eye-catching content across a balanced content calendar.
• Advising and empowering colleagues to use social media to meet their own objectives.
• Using data and reporting to continuously develop and improve social media content.

PART TWO

Please provide us with any further supporting information that you feel will benefit your application. You may want to reference the values and behaviours sections.

This provides you with a great opportunity to further support your application, showcase your understanding of the role and how you feel you’ll be able to contribute to the success of Prostate Cancer UK.

Apply via the apply now link at the top and bottom of this page where you’ll be taken through to our career portal.

Got a question? Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements or any other questions – we’re here to help: hr@prostatecanceruk.org

We look forward to receiving your application!

Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company number 02653887.