Bowel Cancer UK, the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity, is seeking a Media and Communications Officer to join its team. This is an exciting opportunity to amplify the charity’s voice, raise awareness, and drive engagement through compelling media and communication strategies.
If you are a skilled communicator with a background in media, PR, or journalism and want to make a real difference in the fight against bowel cancer, this role offers a meaningful and rewarding opportunity.
About Bowel Cancer
Bowel Cancer UK is the leading bowel cancer charity in the UK, dedicated to saving lives and improving the quality of life for everyone affected by the disease. Committed to raising awareness, providing support, and driving research, the charity works tirelessly to create a future where nobody dies from bowel cancer.
Every 30 minutes, someone in the UK loses their life to bowel cancer, making it the fourth most common cancer and the second biggest cancer killer in the country. However, with early diagnosis, it is treatable and curable.
Bowel Cancer UK focuses on four key areas:
Providing expert information and support to patients and their families.
Campaigning for early diagnosis and ensuring access to the best possible treatment and care.
Funding and supporting research to improve survival rates.
Educating the public and healthcare professionals about bowel cancer.
Through these efforts, Bowel Cancer UK continues to make a lasting impact, working towards a future where bowel cancer no longer takes lives.
Position: Media and Communications Officer
Salary: £27,965 per year
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Remote
About the Role
We’re the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. We support and fund targeted research, provide expert information and support to patients and their families, educate the public and professionals about the disease and campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care.
We currently have around 95 staff based in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Thanks to the generosity of our community, we’re in a privileged position to be able to grow our staff team to deliver our ambitious strategy, On a mission. There are huge challenges facing bowel cancer patients across the UK and our community needs us now more than ever. We’re building a strong and united team to bring us closer to a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer.
Job summary
The Media and Communications Officer leads our day-to-day media work, and supports our major media partnerships and large communications campaigns. This vital work helps us raise the profile of the organisation, build the charity’s reputation as the leading expert on bowel cancer and ultimately reach more people affected by the disease.
You’ll liaise with the media on a daily basis, responding to enquiries, building relationships and researching stories to secure coverage with impact for the charity. You’ll also play a lead role in building up our bank of real-life stories. You’ll talk to supporters and members of the bowel cancer community who are willing to share their experience, and capture their stories for use in our media work.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and at Bowel Cancer UK we are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Successful candidates may be subject to either a satisfactory basic, standard or enhanced DBS check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) dependent upon the role.
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
To learn more about this role and to apply, please visit the OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Application Deadline
April 8, 2025