Brand Communications Manager

We re looking for a Brand Communications Manager (Fixed Term) to join our team

Salary: Circa £40,000

Base: Central Edinburgh/hybrid

Hours: Full time and fixed term Start date ASAP, approximate end date will be June 2026. Working 35 hours a week over core working hours of 10am - 3pm, Monday to Friday, with a one-hour lunch break. The office is open 8am 6pm daily and our hybrid working policy requires all full-time employees to work at least two days a week in the Edinburgh office.

Benefits: 10% employer pension contribution; private medical insurance; employee assistance programme and counselling service; enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay; enhanced sick pay; 31 days paid holiday/year plus four paid winter public holidays; 2-weeks fully remote working/year; three paid carer days/year; death in service benefit; cycle to work and travel season ticket schemes.

To support the Team s work-life balance, we work a nine-day fortnight where the charity is closed every second Friday.

About the role and why we need you

We are looking for the ultimate brand ambassador for the charity. Someone with a clear understanding and knowledge of how to creatively execute and assess the brand at all touchpoints, drawing on their must-have experience across marketing and communication disciplines. Please note, this role is responsible for delivering corporate communications for the charity and is not a PR or content role.

We need a champion of our brand to protect and build understanding of its value at every opportunity. And who takes great pride in delivering standout, high quality brand communications collateral, to help increase our brand awareness and engagement with our supporters, known as Curestarters.

Is building credibility and cohesion of an organisation s brand story, through communications activity, publications and branded materials, where you shine? We would love to hear from you.

Who are we?

At Worldwide Cancer Research, we start new cures. Cancer is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide, but cutting-edge science can give us hope. Discovery research seeks to uncover new knowledge that could change the way we think about cancer. It reveals new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer that can save lives.

We actively seek unconventional and imaginative ideas from scientists at all stages of their career, across the globe. In some cases, we are the only organisation that will fund a scientist s idea. We take an unbiased approach to research funding by focusing on supporting only the best ideas for new cures. By having a diverse research portfolio, we increase our chances of finding breakthroughs.

Our vision is of a day when no life is cut short by cancer, and we believe we can achieve this by starting the life-saving advances of the future by sowing the seeds of discoveries. Anyone that helps bring forward breakthroughs including our staff, our supporters, and the researchers we fund is a Curestarter.

As a charity, we are committed to opportunity without barriers, and we are striving to seek, value and learn from different perspectives and experiences. We want Worldwide Cancer Research to be an inclusive organisation where everyone can be themselves and feel valued as diverse as the scientific community we fund and the families whose lives we impact.

We are committed to ensuring that we provide equal opportunities to every applicant regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We aim to ensure that our recruitment process is unbiased and that everyone is treated equitably. In support of this, we have pledged to Show the Salary for our roles and we are registered as a Disability Confident Committed Employer - because our team members are at the heart of everything we do to start new cancer cures around the world.

To help start new cancer cures and save lives, we are looking for a Brand Communications Manager (Fixed Term) to join the Brand & Communications team at Worldwide Cancer Research, to help the charity run its multi-million-pound funding programme for discovery cancer research.