Community Outreach and Healthy Equity Manager

Key Responsibilities

Lead the development and delivery of the Health Equity and Community Outreach Programme to improve awareness, access, and involvement among underserved communities.
Use insight and inequity data to identify priority communities and guide strategic outreach efforts.
Build and maintain partnerships with grassroots organisations, faith and cultural groups, and local systems to co-create inclusive, culturally relevant outreach strategies.
Strengthen community connections and develop peer leadership to embed sustainable community involvement.
Monitor and evaluate the impact of outreach activities, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organisational goals.
Ensure that lived experience and community insight inform all aspects of the Health Equity Programme, and other relevant projects across the organisation.
Champion inclusive involvement practices across Blood Cancer UK, providing strategic guidance to ensure they are transparent, culturally competent, and accessible.
Coordinate effective internal and external communications that reflect community insight and promote the impact of our equity-led approach.
Lead the development of a place-based approach across the UK, aligning local outreach with national programmes and organisational priorities.
Contribute to a culture of openness, learning, and integration across teams to embed equity-led outreach into Blood Cancer UK’s wider strategy and operations.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Knowledge

Background working on programmes with effective strategies that have effectively reduced health inequalities or disparities in underserved communities
Strong understanding of agile methodologies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative delivery approaches.
Understanding of data-driven approaches to digital product and service development, including optimisation and continuous improvement.

Skills

Exceptional project management skills, with the ability to lead complex initiatives to successful completion.
Excellent time management, facilitation, and organisational skills.
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across diverse teams and stakeholders.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret digital data and apply insights to improve performance and user engagement. With experience of CRM usage for relationship management.

Experience

Proven experience long term engagement, involvement and co-production of projects with people from underrepresented communities.
Demonstrable experience delivering digital and face to face products or services using a data-led, test-and-learn approach.
Track record of balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and managing competing priorities effectively.
Specifically ethnically minority communities or would under-represented communities (socio-economic, geographic or ethnic minority) be sufficient?

About Blood Cancer UK

FLEXIBLE WORKING & OUR BENEFITS

We welcome conversations about part time working, job shares, and all forms of flexible working right from application stage. You can get in touch with us at

if you want to ask us anything about flexible working.

recruitment@bloodcancer.org.uk

Benefits:We think our benefits are brilliant, and the majority start from day 1. These are just a few of them:

30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
Generous pension scheme and Life Assurance
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, as well as study leave and a day off to move house
Wellbeing is a priority for us, we offer a wide range of individual and team support in our Wellbeing Hub
Our Academy is our in-house Continued Professional Development (CPD) learning and development programme, including an internal mentoring scheme. We have organisation-wide focus days, which are days set aside for you to focus on your own development, without being interrupted by emails and meetings.
Cycle to work and season ticket loans
Opportunity to take sabbaticals

Location:Working agile means we changed from having a culture where people are expected to be in the office from 9am to 5pm to one where we’re much more focused on what they deliver. We've built a positive culture where autonomy, trust, wellbeing and flexibility allow us to recruit and retain the very best people. We recognise that teams still need to come together regularly to develop relationships and strengthen collaborative working. Therefore, for the majority of roles, your contractual place of work will be one of our offices. The expectation for how often you will be required to attend the office is outlined in the job profile and will be discussed with you. Details about our hybrid and

agile working approach(including how travel expenses work) can be found on our

website.

HOW TO APPLY

We ask you to send us a CV and cover letter. In your cover letter, we'd like to know why you're interested in working with us at Blood Cancer UK. It's also helpful if you tell us why you think you are a great candidate for this role based on the skills, knowledge and expertise section above. Your cover letter doesn't have to be too long, 1-2 pages is ideal. Please don't add photos or graphics to your CV, as we use blind shortlisting at this stage of the process.

Full details about our recruitment

processes, including how we use blind shortlisting and what to expect at each stage of the process can be found on our

website. Sometimes we close our vacancies early, usually because we have had a lot of great applicants, so we’d always encourage you to apply early rather than wait until the deadline.

WHY WORK AT BLOOD CANCER UK?

We started because of Susan, we’ll get there because of you.

Blood Cancer UK was started by one family who lost their daughter, Susan, to blood cancer, and that history and sense of family continues to shape who we are today. When you join Blood Cancer UK, you don’t just become an organisational employee – you become part of a collaborative community dedicated to funding research into beating blood cancer that includes some of the most inspiring people you’ll ever meet.

And we’re not that far away from beating blood cancer. We’re confident we can do it within the next generation, and this makes us hugely ambitious and gives us a sense of real urgency. It also means we’re changing quickly as an organisation as we constantly challenge ourselves and strive to become more and more effective. This pace of change means working here isn’t for everyone. But if you’re excited by the chance to work in a fast-paced, agile and supportive environment with the focus and ambition to beat blood cancer this could be the place for you! We focus on results rather than time spent at a desk, so we deliver more for people affected by blood cancer.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We are committed to actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusivity. Read our

statementwhich reflects our strong drive to change in this area.

You can read some examples of how we can support you through the application and interview process

here.

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Our Hiring Process

Don't worry if you don't see any roles you want to apply for now. Register your interest to allow us to contact you when a suitable role meeting your criteria comes along. Please note that at the present time, Blood Cancer UK is unable to offer work experience placements or internships.