Social Media Officer

Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge Office

What the job involves

Telling inspirational stories. Dispelling myths. Empowering men to advocate for their own healthcare. Breaking down innovative research. Activating partnerships with some of the UK’s leading brands. All of this will be part of your role as you create eye-catching, sector-leading content.

Sitting in our newly formed Digital Marketing and Channels team, the Social Media Officer is a key role in the Communications team where you’ll be involved in the planning and creation of eye-catching social media content produced to inspire action and engaging our warm supporters.

You'll work closely with the Senior Social Media Officer to evaluate performance, optimise our approach, and share valuable insights with the wider team—ensuring our social media drives impact and reflects our brand.

With a knack for storytelling and an eye for engaging content, you'll help us connect with our audiences and grow our online community. You’ll know how to keep our followers engaged, excited, and valued, ensuring our channels thrive.

You’ll manage a content calendar, test new opportunities, and track performance to continually improve our social presence. Supporting colleagues and volunteers, you’ll provide advice on managing online communities and help teams across the organisation make the most of social media.

Please note internally this role is known as Digital Channels Officer – Social Media.

What we want from you

We’re looking for someone that has experience in managing a multi-channel social media calendar and experience in producing high-quality written and visual online content in a consistent brand tone of voice. With a passion for digital communications, you’ll be well versed in social media best practice and be able to identify new content formats and platforms to engage our audience. As such, you’ll need to have some experience in creating assets for social media, whether that’s static images, videos, animated gifs, or audio.

You’ll be a self-assured and self-motivated person, comfortable working collaboratively with teams across the organisation to deliver eye-catching content within a balanced content calendar. With experience advising and empowering colleagues to use social media effectively, you’ll help them meet their own objectives while ensuring our channels remain engaging and impactful.

Data-driven and results-focused, you’ll be comfortable in using insights and reporting to refine and improve our social media strategy continuously. Whether working solo or as part of a team, you’ll bring creativity, adaptability, and a proactive mindset to help Prostate Cancer UK make a bigger impact online.

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.

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 Ally Ship Training Programme. All colleagues at Prostate Cancer UK will be trained to act and identity as an Ally. 

We've also signed Business in the Communities 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.

Ways of 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.

Next steps
More information on what we offer, as well as the role, can be found on our vacancies page. Please download our job profile document (job description) with our ‘How to apply’ section sharing the key points to refer to in your application and to apply.

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The closing date is Sunday 30th March 2025.  Applications must be submitted by 23:45 UK time.

Interviews: By arrangement. Currently scheduled for the week of Monday 7th April 2025.