Creative and Content Officer

Employer: Bowel Cancer UK

Location: Home Based

Temporary: 1 Year Fixed Term Contract

Working hours: Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £27,560 pa

Closing date: 27/08/2025

• Job description

  Bowel Cancer UK is 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 currently have around 100 staff based in England, Wales Scotland 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 new 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 world where nobody dies of bowel cancer.

  Job summary

  We’re looking for a dynamic, multi-skilled Creative and Content Officer to bring our charity’s mission to life through compelling visual storytelling and thoughtful content design.

  You’ll work across teams – Policy and Influencing, Services, Fundraising, Partnerships and Philanthropy, and Research – to produce high-impact content that drives engagement, inspires action, and amplifies our voice.

  This role is primarily focused on graphic design, taking written content developed by others and transforming it into engaging, accessible, and brand-aligned visual materials across print and digital platforms. From filming and editing videos to designing pitch decks and paid ads, you’ll be at the heart of our creative output, helping us communicate complex ideas with clarity, emotion, and purpose.

  We’re also looking for someone who can suggest light edits to supplied copy, such as refining headlines, subheadings or text hierarchy, to help ensure the content is as clear and engaging as possible for the intended audience.

  Main responsibilities

  • Support the Creative and Content Manager to develop and implement the organisation’s content strategy and planning

  • Help ensure content and creative materials are high quality, meet the needs of different communication channels and audiences, meet accessibility standards, and are effectively evaluated

  • Support the Creative and Content Manager to implement brand guidelines, ensuring our visual identity, messaging, tone of voice and style are used appropriately and consistently in communication materials

  • Provide brand, content production, copywriting and proofreading guidance to other teams

  • Work to a brief to produce content and assets for internal and external audiences, including video, photography, animation, podcasts, social graphics, design and print, whether self-produced, produced within the team, or working with external suppliers

  • Work to a brief to produce creative design work across different formats for internal and external audiences, including inhouse production and working with external suppliers for more complex projects

  • Help manage our Digital Asset Management System, ensuring assets are easy to find and use, kept up to date or archived, and that we’re meeting privacy and data protection responsibilities

  • Keep up to date with the latest trends and developments in content production. Share knowledge and contribute to idea generation activities

  • Carry out other duties as required

  • Model the charity’s values and abide by our policies and practices

  Person specification

  Qualifications and experience

  • Experience in graphic design across both print and digital formats, including social media and paid advertising

  • A strong portfolio demonstrating the ability to transform written content into clear, engaging, and accessible visual materials

  • Hands-on experience in video production: filming, editing, and post-production

  • Experience in working to brand guidelines and contributing to the development of creative concepts that support key messages and campaign goals

  • A track record in managing content production processes, including preparing artwork for print and digital use, and managing feedback and sign-off stages

  Knowledge, skills and abilities

  Essential

  • Strong graphic design skills using Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects), along with experience in Canva, to create engaging content across multiple channels

  • Understanding of content design for clarity, accessibility, and user needs

  • Confidence in reviewing and lightly editing supplied copy (e.g., headlines, subheadings, text hierarchy) to enhance clarity and readability for the intended audience

  • Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

  • Attention to detail, with ability to refine copy for readability

  • Good planning and organisational skills; able to manage multiple projects

  • Willingness to learn new tools and adapt to changing needs

  Desirable

  • Experience working in the charity or non-profit sector

  • Experience of sourcing, setting up and briefing external agencies and freelancers, and managing the production and sign off process with such external partners

  • Familiarity with project management tools such as Trello

  • Experience using a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS)

  • Knowledge of SEO and digital marketing principles

  Personal qualities

  • Creative, enthusiastic, flexible and proactive

  • Interested in ideas and innovations; able to spot new trends and think how we could capitalise on them

  • Willing to learn new skills and try new things

  • Ability to manage a busy workload and work to deadlines

  • Self-sufficient as well as able to work as part of a team

  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy

  • A strong commitment to the work of Bowel Cancer UK and empathy with the experiences of people affected by bowel cancer

  Contract: 1 Year Fixed Term Contract

  Safeguarding:

  Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and at Bowel Cancer UK we are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

  Successful candidates may be subject to either a satisfactory, basic or enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS - UK), (PVG – Scotland) or Access (NI) dependent upon the role. There is no cost to you and will be processed on your behalf.

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