Senior Social Media Officer March 2025 (65)
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 Senior Social Media Officer is a key figure in driving growth and impact across our work. With a passion for digital communications, you’ll be an expert in social media best practice. You’ll know how to keep our followers engaged, excited, and appreciated.
You’ll be the day-to-day face of social media at the charity. Working closely with the Digital Marketing and Channels Manager on social media strategy and liaising with colleagues across the organisation to help meet our comms objectives.
Please note internally this role is known as Senior Digital Channels Officer – Social Media.
What we want from you
We’re looking for someone with experience in managing a large, multi-channel, brand presence on social media.
You’ll be an excellent communicator and first-class collaborator. In the ever-changing world of social media, you’ll have your finger on the pulse of everything new. You’ll be comfortable with crisis management and working directly with senior stakeholders. You’ll have a track record of being reactive and meeting tight deadlines. You’ll feel comfortable working in a team and solo, whether from home, our London office, or out and about at events across the country.
You’ll feel comfortable engaging and talking to an audience of men about broad topics that interest them, including sports, music, and film.
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 believe that equity, diversity, and inclusion are essential to building a strong and innovative workplace that represents and can advocate for the communities we support. We stand against discrimination and prejudice, and we champion tolerance, fairness, and equality in everything we do. This makes us stronger and helps us reach more people. We’re all here for the same reason: to give every man the power to navigate prostate cancer.
We're committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men who are at double risk. 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.
Therefore, we’re particularly interested in applications from those from marginalised and vulnerable communities. This will help us create an environment of inclusion where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, where personal qualities are as important as professional experience, and our people feel seen and heard.
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
* Multicultural – 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. Due to the nature of the role, occasional travel, and occasional out-of-hours cover will also be required.
Next steps
For more information on the role, please download our job description (job profile document) and read through the ‘How to apply’ section (below), sharing the key points to refer to in your application and click apply.
The closing date is Sunday 2nd March 2025. Applications must be submitted by 23:45 UK time.
Interviews: By arrangement. Currently scheduled for the week of Monday 10th March 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:
* Managing a large brand presence on social media, including creating content calendars and overseeing community management.
* Responding to negative feedback or complaints, disinformation, or other posts that might carry an element of reputational risk. Working with senior stakeholders to help with crisis management.
* Setting channel strategies to increase reach and engagement, including using reporting and analytics tools to optimise content and delivery.
* Working with other teams to deliver projects across a number of areas while maintaining a balanced content calendar.
* Identifying, testing, and evaluating new opportunities.
* Empowering other colleagues and teams to use social media to drive their own activity.
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.
#J-18808-Ljbffr