Communications Officer

Communications Officer
Permanent
Full time (34.5 hours) 
Split between home and our London Office / Shipley Office / Glasgow office
Salary: £32,000 - £36,000

About us:

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. 

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to help more people with cancer get the best care the UK has to offer, whoever and wherever they are. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good. 

About the Role:

As a Communications Officer, you will develop and deliver impactful communication plans to build awareness, trust, and engagement with Macmillan. Working across teams, you will create compelling content, manage internal and external messaging, and support our digital and social media channels.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement creative communication plans.
• Produce engaging content across multiple channels.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support social media and internal communication platforms.
• Identify and respond to media and reputational opportunities.
• Ensure people affected by cancer are at the heart of our communications.
• Monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve communication strategies.

About You:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in delivering audience-focused communications.
• Ability to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• A flexible, collaborative, and proactive approach.
• Passion for Macmillan’s mission and values.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days 
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more
  
  

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Thurs 10^th April
Interviews: Wednesday 16^th and Thursday 17^th April   

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments. 

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.