PR & Communications Officer

Leukaemia UK – Our Charity  

Leukaemia UK is growing! We are expanding our team to achieve a step-change in income, profile and impact in 2025 and beyond.

We are a ‘small but mighty’ charity with one big ambition: to stop leukaemia devastating lives. Over the next 10 years we want to help save and improve the lives of more people with leukaemia through funding life-changing research and campaigning for change.

Despite progress in recent decades, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer every 16 minutes and for some types of leukaemia survival rates are among the worst of any cancer.  And the physical and psychological impact can be lifelong. 

Our current strategy outlines our plan to increase our investment into ground-breaking world class research and policy development focused on improving access to kinder, more effective diagnosis, treatment and care for leukaemia and other blood cancers. To do this, we are embarking on a period of significant growth, investing strategically to grow our income, profile, influence, and engagement and impact.

As we begin the fourth year of this ambitious 5-year strategy, we are seeking a dedicated and creative PR and Communications Officer with a passion for storytelling, to help continue to raise the profile of Leukaemia UK and communicate the need and impact of its work to key audiences.

Team

We are a close-knit team who are all passionate about Leukaemia UK and putting those affected by the disease at the heart of everything we do.  We are all focused on “keeping it real” with pragmatic, practical solutions, as well as ensuring that our charity gets the funding it needs to continue to help those diagnosed with leukaemia and other blood cancers.

From us you can expect fun and creativity, as well as great challenge and support. We may not be about the corporate life here, but we are all about delivering exceptional expertise and making a real change to people’s lives.

As part of a small but expanding comms team, this role offers the chance to make a real difference to the charity and gives an experienced PR Officer the chance to lead on high profile campaigns, as well as get stuck in with day to day delivery.

Leukaemia UK and You 

As PR & Communications Officer, you will support the PR & Communications Manager to deliver the PR for some of our most high-profile fundraising campaigns and events.

We are looking for someone with existing PR experience (2+ years), ideally for events and/or fundraising, who can help raise the profile of both new and existing campaigns.

You will be a self-starter, who enjoys working independently and is always hungry for a story. You will be able to build strong relationships with journalists, agents/celebrities and case studies, and keep on top of the news agenda to spot and maximise opportunities for the charity.

This role is essential for delivering the drumbeat of reactive and proactive coverage needed to build awareness of Leukaemia UK and the work we do.  

This is a great new role for someone looking to have real autonomy in their work and get stuck into a range of communications disciplines, helping to drive us forward and make an impact for all those affected by leukaemia.

Skills and Experience

• Experience working in a busy press office / comms function which has raised the profile and awareness of an organisation
• Experience of events and/or fundraising PR
• Experience working with celebrities / influencers in a PR / communications context
• Experience of communicating complex information to a range of audiences
• Experience of working with case studies and the sensitivity that goes along with this

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Job Specifics

• Hours: Full time hours are 37.5 Monday to Friday
• Location: We are very flexible! Our hybrid working policy is a minimum of two days per month in our London Office. This will vary dependent on meetings with internal and external stakeholders so your flexibility is a must. Our aim is to work together in the office together if and when possible.
• Salary range £32,500 - £37,000 (FTE)  

Applications

If you feel you have the passion for our work and the right mix of skills, energy, and flair to embrace this broad and challenging role and enable our strategy to fly, then we would love you to apply. Please also see the full job description attached to the advert. To minimise unconscious bias, we use anonymous recruitment and are unable to consider direct applications. Please apply via the CharityJob website with your CV and covering letter.

• First interviews will be held via Teams on Wednesday 19 February 2025  
• Second interviews will be held at our London Offices – at 26 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5BL on Wednesday 26 February 2025.
• We are proud of our benefits – see a summary on our website Work with us - Leukaemia UK 

Closing Date: Midnight Sunday 9 February 2025

We look forward to hearing from you! 

Cara Delaney

PR & Communications Manager