Policy and Health Influencing Officer

As a Policy and Health Influencing Officer, you'll be helping deliver impactful changes that measurably improve men's experience in their access to and quality of prostate cancer diagnosis, treatment, care and support. You'll be joining a multi-disciplinary team which also includes volunteers and partners all working towards the same aims.

You'll be supporting complex and politically sensitive projects to drive change across the UK's health services and other providers at local, regional and national levels. Bringing together your knowledge and experience of engaging with stakeholders, on a one-to-one and mass level basis, you'll effect change by utilising effective tools and approaches and deliver projects or campaigns achieving our strategic aims.

Through building relationships with health services and systems you'll be able to understand the obstacles to improving care and work collaboratively with others to help overcome these. As part of your role, you'll also be developing resources for campaigning, influencing and policy work using a host of digital tools (including social media and online channels). By keeping up to date with health news and the changing environment in all areas relating to prostate cancer will help to influence your work.

We're looking for an excellent communicator, you'll be communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external at all levels. With an excellent knowledge of UK health services, policy and systems you'll understand how they operate politically, financially and clinically. Using these skills, you'll have experience in influencing strategic partnerships and building relationships with those that can influence healthcare matters and bring about change improving the experience of men.

You'll have project management experience with the ability to gain engagement with health, political and public stakeholders. In addition, you'll have experience in working on change campaigns which involve public participation using social media and online channels.

Although not essential for the role, it would be beneficial if you have experience in either driving service improvements, interventions to improve health outcomes, developing and influencing local or national policies or engaging with politicians to deliver campaign objectives., 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:

+ Excellent communicator - confident and competent to communicate with a range of key internal and external stakeholders

+ Excellent knowledge of UK health systems, policy and service, and how they work - politically, financially and clinically

+ Experience of building and influencing strategic partnerships with those that can influence healthcare

+ Experience of working on change campaigns with public participation - using social media and online channels

+ Project management experience

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 believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to building a strong and innovative workplace, that represents, and can advocate for the communities we support. We stand against discrimination and prejudice, and we champion tolerance, fairness and equality in everything we do. This makes us stronger and helps us reach more people. We're all here for the same reason: to give every man the power to navigate prostate cancer.

We're committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men who are at double risk. 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.

Therefore, we're particularly interested in applications from those from marginalised and vulnerable communities. This will help us create an environment of inclusion where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, where personal qualities are as important as professional experience, and our people feel seen and heard.

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

+ Multicultural - 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 four days per month.