Communications Coordiator - Stories and Voices
Fixed Term Contract (6 months)
Full time (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location – Home-based / Split between home and our London Office
National salary: £22,000 - £25,000 pro rata
London: £25,500 - £28,500 pro rata
About us
At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.
Do you have sharp organisational skills and admin experience, and want to support our work with storytellers who have lived experience of cancer? If so, this could be the role for you.
About the role
This 6-month fixed-term role or secondment will support our Stories and Voices team (and the wider communications division) to implement and maintain key systems and processes that make their vital work as effective as possible. The postholder will report to our Senior Impact and Coordination Manager, while working very closely with the Stories and Voices team, supporting them in a range of ways including keeping track of requests from internal teams to work with people with cancer who have chosen to share their story with us for example, and ensuring they are responded to; and they will upload, manage and ensure consent and data protection documentation is up-to-date for the Macmillan Library, our central database of Stories and photography. The role includes a chance to work with lots of different people and teams, and a close connection to exciting and powerful work with storytellers and celebrities.
About you
We are looking for someone with strong organisational skills, experience in an administrative role, and who is confident with the main Microsoft Office applications. You’ll bring excellent interpersonal skills, a commitment to our values, the ability to prioritise, respect confidentiality and the importance of attention to detail and data protection.
In return, we offer a range of benefits including:
- 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
- Pension matched up to 7.5%
- 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
- Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
- Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more
Recruitment Process
Application deadline: 23rd June 2024
First interview dates: week commencing 1st July 2024
To ensure fairness and consistency and select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.
So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.