Communications Planning Manager

The Communications Planning Manager leads the organisation's internal and external communication planning and is the key partner and first point of contact for colleagues briefing in marketing and communication activities.

You'll lead the organisation's internal and external communications planning, including an organisation wide communications calendar. You'll work with colleagues to define their goals, understand their audiences, develop a great communications brief and then help deliver their campaign by coordinating resources and expertise from across the Marketing and Communications team. The projects are varied and you'll work across fundraising, campaigning, policy and influencing, research, patient services, healthcare professionals and corporate partnerships. You'll also lead how we communicate with our own internal staff team., Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.

Equally comfortable working with internal and external audiences, you'll be a strategic thinker and a communications all-rounder. With an understanding of how press and PR, social media, web, email, brand, content and internal communications all contribute to a great communications campaign. You'll have excellent communication planning skills and a talent for building relationships with colleagues and partners at all levels.

We're the UK's leading bowel cancer charity. We're determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. We support and fund targeted research, provide expert information and support to patients and their families, educate the public and professionals about the disease and campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care.

We employ around 90 staff based in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Thanks to the generosity of our community, we're in a privileged position to be able to grow our staff team to deliver our ambitious strategy, On a Mission. There are huge challenges facing bowel cancer patients across the UK and our community needs us now more than ever. We're building a strong and united team to bring us closer to a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer.