Overview
Content Designer
Salary: £35,000- £39,000 + benefits
Reports to: Senior Content Manager
Grade: P2
Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Closing date: 01 September 2025, 23:55
This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk as soon as possible.
What will I be doing?
* Shaping and delivering structured end-to-end content experiences across a range of website content.
* Supporting omnichannel content delivery and personalisation in line with Cancer Research UK’s ambitions.
* Helping manage campaign and project requests, ensuring content meets high standards of quality, consistency, and accessibility.
* Partnering with teams across Cancer Research UK, helping them design, deliver, and iterate a strategic approach to their content.
* Promoting our content strategy and content design best practices both within marketing and digital, and across the wider organisation.
* Collaborating with other capabilities (SEO, UX, taxonomy), ensuring an agile, cross-disciplinary approach to content planning, creation, and management.
* Supporting continuous improvements within the Content Excellence Function, while acting as a content champion throughout the organisation.
* Developing relationships with other areas of the charity to support the development of digital content.
* Using data-driven insights to evaluate content performance, identifying outdated or underperforming content (we use Google Analytics and Hotjar).
* Improving content performance by guiding content owners to optimise, retire, or repurpose content in line with user needs and organisational goals.
* Using content design techniques to identify and address gaps in our existing content.
* Optimising content across key websites, ensuring the copy, calls to action, format, and assets are accessible and impactful.
* Training, guiding, and supporting teams to foster a culture of audience-centricity and advance content maturity across the charity.
* Leading and facilitating workshops and training sessions (including design sprints, user journey mapping, and assumption mapping).
* Conducting user interviews and delivering stakeholder workshops, reviewing findings, and making recommendations for content improvements.
* Supporting our content migration to our new headless CMS (Contentful).
* Supporting the testing and prototyping of new digital ideas.
What are you looking for?
* Experienced Content Designer with experience delivering and optimising digital content in a large, complex organisation with a headless CMS (preferably Contentful).
* Strong content creation and copywriting skills, with knowledge of writing for websites, UX, usability, accessibility, SEO, and optimisation techniques.
* Audience-centric with demonstrable knowledge of accessibility guidelines and best practices (e.g., WCAG).
* Analytical and data-literate with the ability to interpret content performance metrics and use insights to inform content strategy and decision-making.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tell a story and translate complex concepts for diverse lay audiences.
* Has built credible cross-functional stakeholder relationships with strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
* Solutions-driven with a continuous improvement mindset.
* Strong organisational, prioritisation, and planning skills with the ability to deliver multiple campaigns and projects simultaneously with attention to detail.
* Ideally available to start on one month’s notice or less (not essential; candidates with longer notice periods are welcome).
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do. Bold, Credible, Human, Together. We look for people who embody these values to drive progress against our mission to beat cancer.
What will I gain?
We create a working environment that supports wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, opportunities for career and personal development, and high-quality tools. Our policies enable you to improve work-life balance and achieve personal wellbeing goals. You can explore our benefits on our careers webpage.
Additional information: For more information about working with us please visit our website or contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone belongs and benefits from the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. If you have concerns or require adjustments during the process, please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible. We cannot recruit anyone below the age of 18.
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