You ll focus on creating and maintaining a broad range of content to support and promote CCLG s extensive range of activities, including research, our professional membership activities, health information for patients and families, influencing and policy work, and fundraising. You ll work with teams across the organisation to identify opportunities to create content, ensuring it is engaging, of a high quality, on brand, and that it helps the organisation to meet its objectives.
We re looking for a user-focused champion of great content, with strong organisational skills, who ll use their own initiative and ability to manage a varied workload. Beyond your technical skills of producing high-quality content, you ll have great interpersonal and communication sills, allowing you to build great working relationships across departments within CCLG and with key stakeholders, including our professional members and those with lived experience of children and young people s cancer.
This role is offered on a hybrid basis, with an expectation of two days per week in our Leicester office.
About CCLG: The Children & Young People's Cancer Association
CCLG is a charity dedicated to creating a brighter future for children and young people with cancer. Powered by expertise, we unite the children and young people s cancer community, driving collective action and progress.
Research is the key to better treatments, improved care, and potential cures. We fund and lead world-class research, fuelling groundbreaking work led by brilliant minds. Collaboration is at the heart of our approach bringing together the right people and organisations to drive progress and deliver real impact.
We provide trusted information and guidance for children and young people with cancer, their families, and everyone supporting them. Our expertise helps them navigate the challenges of cancer and its impact, offering reassurance and clarity when it s needed most.
Through our professional membership, we bring together the brightest minds in children and young people s cancer, creating a national network that drives progress. Together, we shape better treatment and care - developing guidelines, sharing knowledge, offering expert advice, leading pioneering research, and creating essential resources and education for professionals. Our collective expertise sets the standard, advocating for excellence at every level local, national, and global.
Our work is only possible thanks to the generosity of fundraisers, donors, and supporters who share our mission. Every pound raised helps fund our research, provide trusted information for families, and brings together experts to improve treatment, care and outcomes.
Our communications team works to support and promote CCLG s extensive range of activities, across research, professional membership, health information, policy and advocacy, and fundraising, raising awareness of our work, supporting our income generation strategy, and ultimately improving outcomes for children and young people with cancer.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
CCLG is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents the communities we serve. We warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Benefits of Working at CCLG
* 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with 6 additional closure days per year (usually 2 at Easter, 4 at Christmas) (pro-rata for part-time staff)
* Enhanced maternity pay
* Enhanced sick pay
* Life insurance and employee assistance scheme
* Defined contribution pension scheme: 8% employer contribution / 5% employee contribution
* Hybrid working model
* Supportive and collaborative team culture
Application instructions
For your application, please upload a CV (which should include details of two referees, including your current/most recent employer - we will not contact references without your consent or prior to a provisional offer being made) along with a covering letter. Your covering letter should be bespoke to this job application, demonstrating how your experience makes you suitable for the role and showing how you meet the person specification. If you wish to include a small number of examples of relevant content you have created, please include links in your covering letter.
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