Online Community Officer
Employer: Macmillan
Location: Home based or split between home and our London office, Shipley office or Glasgow office. We are open to applicants based anywhere in the UK.
Working hours: 34.5 hours, shift pattern over 7 days 8am-8pm. We are open to a conversation about compressed hours.
Salary: £29,000 - £32,000
Closing date: 23:59 on 11th March 2026
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Are you passionate about supporting people and motivated by continuous improvement? Do you have experience of working with online community groups? If so, this could be the role for you.
Online Community
The Online Community is a peer to peer support network, provided by and for people living with cancer, facilitated by volunteer Community Champions in a safe online environment. As the only Macmillan platform with 24/7 support for people with cancer, open 365 days a year, and with over 80k members, the Online Community is all about fostering and facilitating connections between people, in an anonymous, safe way.
About the role
This role is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience of working within online groups and communities to join our Online Community team to deliver and support high quality services online to people affected by cancer, and other key Macmillan audiences as well as drive peer to peer engagement within the online community.
You will be responsible for maintaining and supporting high quality service to the online community, supporting members and volunteers, driving engagement between members, moderating posts and online content and responding to help requests, to create a safe and supportive environment for all our members and volunteers.
To cover our opening hours of 8am-8pm, you will be required to work a shift rotation that includes some evening and weekend working, some parts of which will be unsupervised. An example shift rotation is attached below. A 1 hour unpaid lunch break is included within shift times.
About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:
Experience and knowledge of working within online communities and social media
Good written and verbal communication skills (including the ability to communicate directly with community members and volunteers as well as internally at different levels of the organisation and to different technical abilities)
Experience of developing, managing and moderating online content
Good IT skills with experience of setting up web pages, including basic grasp of HTML, use of a CMS or social publishing platform and image optimisation
Experience of supporting and communicating with customers through email, online and over the phone
In return, we offer a range of benefits including:
25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
Pension matched up to 7.5%
120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more
Recruitment Process
Application deadline: 23:59 on 11th March 2026
Interview dates: Online interviews will take place on the week commencing 23rd March
To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.
Please note, we do not generally offer visa sponsorship for this role.
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