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About the Role

Cancer Research UK is seeking an exceptional communications leader to head their Corporate & Consumer communications function. This role involves shaping how the organization engages audiences, builds brand relevance, supports fundraising, and protects its reputation through strategic, insight-led communications, while leading a team of six professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead CRUK’s Corporate & Consumer communications function, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, brand strategy and narrative.
• Oversee integrated, multi-channel communications campaigns that support fundraising, partnerships, trading, events and brand-building objectives.
• Drive a unified approach to campaign planning across national and regional PR activity.
• Lead corporate communications including CEO communications, employer brand, EDI communications and Annual Report & Accounts activity.
• Provide strategic leadership on crisis communications, issues management and reputational risk.
• Manage and develop a team of six, creating a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing culture.

Requirements

• Extensive senior-level communications experience.
• Proven success delivering integrated PR campaigns and multi-channel communications strategies.
• Experience using audience insight, data and evaluation to inform decision making.
• Expertise in crisis communications, issues management and reputation protection.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience managing teams, budgets and external agencies.

Work Type

• 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Experience Level

• Senior-level

Salary/Compensations

• £63,000 - £65,000 per annum

Benefits

• Generous benefits package
• Career development opportunities
• High-quality tools

About the Company

• At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
• Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
• Act with ambition, courage and determination
• Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
• Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
• Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
• Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.

Equal Opportunity

• We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• 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.