Cancer Research UK (CRUK)
Content Strategy Manager
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Content Strategy Manager (Part-time Job Share – 3 days per week)
£45,000 - £49,000 plus benefits
Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part-time 21 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London
Office-based with high flexibility (1 day per week in the office)
Closing date: 30 August 2026 23:55
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We’re looking for a Content Strategy Manager to join us.
In this exciting role, you will manage our organisational content model strategy, leading stakeholders to deliver structured content following the migration of our website into a new content management system (CMS). Working across CRUK, you’ll take an active role to ensure the modular (headless) system supports and furthers our strategy, interfacing between the business and technology. Focusing on designing and connecting content, your work will ensure CRUK gives a coherent brand and user experience across our content ecosystem.
Through the Content Excellence Function, you will join up the details and practicalities of how structured content expresses our brand. You will help us maintain content standards and help us plan for content to be as impactful, relevant and consistent across all channels for all audiences.
What will I be doing?
- Provide leadership and direction for the development of structured content in the new content management system and its content models
- Develop, deliver and maintain a reusable content strategy, ensuring that new content is structured and connected, so it can be found, used and re-used
- Establish a strong foundation in our content models for omnichannel and personalisation, in line with CRUK’s ambitions, and evolve the content models as this work progresses
- Support on integrations that link up with Contentful, including future AI integrations
- Take an active role to consider equality and diversity as part of decisions, and to embed accessibility and inclusion into content and technology processes
- Cultivate partnerships with stakeholders across the charity and co-design structured content
- Inspire confidence across teams; coach and educate staff on new approaches, including the design (and supporting the delivery of) training for content editors, and the provision and maintenance of guidance and other resources
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
What are we looking for?
- Strategic thinker with experience developing and translating content strategy into operational planning and technical delivery
- Relevant experience and knowledge of delivering structured content and content modelling in a headless content management system (CMS)
- Relevant experience of overlapping and complex services, teams and technologies
- Knowledge of applying structured content approaches to content creation and management
- Outstanding ability to simplify processes to be more user-centric; able to prioritise, handle constraints, and make trade-offs
- A strong communicator, able to convey complex information, ideas and procedures clearly
- Relevant experience and knowledge of a variety of content technologies, including CMS, asset management, content performance and analytics
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.
If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
What will I gain?
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.
You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.
How do I apply?
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.
Please note that applications can’t be edited once submitted.
For more information on this career opportunity please visit our website or contact us at recruitment@cancer.org.uk.
For more updates on our work and careers, follow us on: Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location