Senior Copywriting Officer August 2025 63-50
Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge Office
What the job involves
We’re looking for a brilliant and proactive Senior Copywriting Officer to lead the creation of compelling written content that engages our audiences, strengthens our brand voice, and helps raise vital funds to support men with, or at risk of, prostate cancer.
As our in-house copywriting expert, you’ll help shape messaging and creative direction for products and campaigns and play a key role in shaping our tone of voice across all communication. You’ll review and edit content, support colleagues to build their confidence and capability, and ensure everything we publish is clear, consistent and impactful.
You’ll take the lead on developing content and writing for key long-form products – including our supporter magazine, impact report and direct marketing appeals – transforming briefs into emotionally resonant, insight-led copy that drives supporter action across both print and digital channels.
What we want from you
We’re looking for someone with expert copywriting skills, a sharp eye for detail, and a supportive, solutions-focused mindset. You’ll be passionate about using words to make a difference, and versatile in writing for a wide range of audiences and formats.
You’ll bring a strong track record in crafting persuasive, emotionally compelling long-form copy, particularly for fundraising and direct marketing, along with excellent editing skills and a deep understanding of tone of voice and audience needs.
Bringing a forward-thinking approach, you’re confident using AI to support creativity and curious about how it can strengthen human-led writing processes and scale impact.
You’ll be calm under pressure and able to manage multiple priorities with confidence and clarity. A natural communicator, you’ll collaborate effectively with colleagues across the organisation, explain complex ideas simply, and be comfortable coaching others to strengthen their writing skills.
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’re committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men. 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. To make this happen, we're dedicated to being an inclusive, proactive organisation, as we strive to be allies to Black communities. We’ll achieve this by advocating and working alongside those communities to promote change. We're also working to be allies to each other, not only protected groups. In 2024, we launched our New Allyship Training Programme. All colleagues at Prostate Cancer UK will be trained to act and identify as an ally.
We've also signed Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, as a dedication to our Black health equity work and wider EDI priorities. As a signatory, we're responsible and accountable for driving positive change.
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
* Culture Club – 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.
Next steps
For more information on the role, please download our job description (job profile document) and read through ‘How to apply’ section (below), sharing the key points to refer to in your application and clickapply.
The closing date is Sunday 31 st August 2025. Applications must be submitted by 23:45 UK time.
Interviews: By arrangement. Currently scheduled for Thursday 11 th and Monday 15 th September.
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.
AI can help shape your application, but your voice matters most. We’re looking to understand your personal experiences, skills, and what makes you uniquely suited to the role.
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:
* Experienced in writing emotionally compelling fundraising and direct marketing copy that motivates action and builds loyalty.
* Experienced in developing and writing compelling long-form content (like reports and magazines) in a house style that adapts to meet the needs of different audiences.
* Confident designing and delivering training that improves writing quality and uses house style and brand values.
* Comfortable giving and receiving constructive editorial feedback to strengthen team copywriting capabilities.
* Comfortable incorporating AI into the copywriting process, with a proactive interest in exploring how emerging tools can increase our capacity, creativity, and effectiveness.
* An excellent communicator – confident, inspiring, and capable of explaining complex technical information to non-technical audiences.
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.
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