Interim Senior Marketing and Communications Manager
45,000 - 50,000 per year
London Bridge
Full-time
8th May 2026
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Interim Senior Marketing and Communications Manager 1 year fixed term contract Closing date: Friday 8 May 2026 1 Job title: Interim Senior Marketing and Communications Manager Reports to: Director of Fundraising and Engagement Location: Hours: We currently offer a hybrid-working model. This means you may usually work from your home or remote location, but are expected to attend meetings and pay for your own travel to the office in London Bridge when required. Full time 35 hours per week 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday. The charity has a core hours policy with core hours of 10am – 4pm and flexibility around remaining hours. Salary: £45,000 – 50,000 At Target Ovarian Cancer, we target what’s important to stop ovarian cancer devastating lives. We give trusted information, to help people ask questions and make decisions that are right for them. We connect people with shared experiences, and we support families every step of the way. We stand together as a powerful community for everyone facing ovarian cancer across the UK, sharing stories and raising voices, to make sure that ovarian cancer becomes a health priority. We know that early diagnosis saves lives, so we work closely with GPs who are at the heart of this, to help them diagnose ovarian cancer faster and earlier – giving everyone the best chance of living. And our investment in research to find new, better and more targeted treatments means that everyone can live with hope for their future. We’re fighting for a world where everyone with ovarian cancer lives, and we’re targeting what’s important - symptoms awareness, early diagnosis, better treatments and support for all. 2 My favourite thing about working at Target Ovarian Cancer is definitely the people – it’s an absolute pleasure to be part of such a passionate and dedicated team who are super friendly and fun to work with!” - Hayley, Head of Digital 3 Leadership and team management • Provide clear, confident leadership to the Marketing and Communications team, line managing the Marketing Officer, Communications Officer, and Brand Manager. • Set direction, priorities and expectations for the team, ensuring a strong focus on impact delivery, quality and pace • Support and develop team members through effective delegation, feedback and coaching, ensuring work is delivered to a high standard with appropriate oversight. • Foster effective ways of working across the team and across the organisation, ensuring marketing and communications activity is well planned, coordinated and resourced. Strategy and organisational priorities • Develop and deliver a comprehensive marketing and communications strategy that drives supporter and audience growth, aligned to organisational priorities, fundraising goals and impact objectives. • Work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to support the rollout of the organisational strategy through clear, compelling and consistent internal and external communications. • Lead on high profile communications projects and integrated marketing campaigns, ensuring they align with wider strategic objectives, are audience led, and meet deadlines and targets. • Act as a senior adviser on marketing and communications, providing strategic guidance and practical solutions across the organisation. Brand, content and messaging • Provide senior oversight of and sign off on brand management and key messaging across the organisation, ensuring the brand is used consistently, effectively and confidently across all channels and touchpoints, with day- to-day delivery led by the Brand Manager. • Support the delivery of the updated brand story and ensure it is embedded across marketing, communications and fundraising activity. • Ensure robust processes are in place for briefing, review and approval of content, balancing quality control with efficiency. Marketing, digital and audience insight • Lead on the coordination and delivery of organisation wide marketing activity, ensuring clear planning across teams, channels and audiences. • Oversee the marketing of the organisation’s services, ensuring activity is insight driven, accessible and reaches priority audiences effectively. • Provide strategic oversight of digital activity, including website performance, digital supporter journeys, UX, SEO and the effective use of emerging tools and technologies such as AI. 4 • Embed a strong focus on audience insight and data, using research and analytics to inform decision making, improve performance and demonstrate impact. Reporting, evaluation and performance • Ensure clear, consistent and meaningful reporting is provided to senior stakeholders, supporting effective decision making and continuous improvement. • Use insight, digital analytics and evaluation to refine approaches, identify opportunities and address risks. Stakeholder management and collaboration • Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders across the organisation, ensuring marketing and communications activity supports wider organisational goals. • Manage relationships with external agencies and suppliers, ensuring high quality outputs, value for money and effective project management. • Represent the marketing and communications function confidently with external partners and audiences as required. Contributing to our culture In addition, Managers are expected to: • Manage line reports effectively in line with the charity’s management guidance, ensuring a high-performance culture rooted in support, feedback and learning. • Role model the charity’s culture by creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all colleagues, working collaboratively and taking accountability. • Proactively raise misalignment to the strategy or inefficiency. Highlight opportunities to capture high quality data for insight, and suggest ways to achieve this. • Apply and role model the charity’s approach to open, regular, well delivered feedback. • Flag risks and follow processes to manage risk. Due to nature of the role, you will sometimes be asked to work outside of office hours and there may be occasional travel across the UK. 5 The best person for this role will have experience of: Essential Desirable Marketing campaign delivery or planning Managing, optimising and delivering posts across digital channels, including responding to comments and engaging with followers to build meaningful interaction Creating compelling interactive and dynamic digital content tailored to channels Using design software such as Canva Using content management systems to optimise across channels (Mailchimp, web CMS such as Drupal, social media scheduling platforms like Sprout Social) Working knowledge of best practice in areas of digital marketing such as web and SEO, email, paid and organic social media X X X X X X The best person for this role will have the skills to: Essential Desirable Maintain a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail across work Think creatively to engage audiences and create powerful content Manage projects to deliver high quality work to deadline Work to challenging deadlines and to proactively manage competing priorities Harness the use of AI to maximise efficiency without compromising on quality Stay on top of trends across digital channels and implement appropriate learning across our work X X X X X X The best person for this role will be (behaviours): Essential Desirable Collaborative, with a flexible approach to supporting across the organisation Open to feedback and driven to deliver high quality work Curious, externally facing and driven to implement learning from elsewhere X X X The best person for this role will be qualified in: Essential Desirable No specific qualifications required N/A 6 Holidays Staff start with 25 days' annual leave entitlement, rising to 27 days after one year's service and 30 days after two years' service and also receive statutory public holidays. This is pro- rated for part time staff. Employee assistance programme Paid sick leave All members of staff, their partners and any dependants between the ages of 16 & 24 in full time education, have access to a free and anonymous service giving all staff up to 20 days paid sick leave from day one on a rolling 12- providing information, expert advice and specialist counselling to deal with a month basis. wide range of issues staff may encounter in their personal or work lives. Health Service Discounts Health Service Discounts All Target Ovarian Cancer staff are eligible to sign up to the NHS Health Service Employee assistance programme Discounts website as healthcare-related charity staff and receive discounts on all Target Ovarian Cancer staff are eligible to sign up to the NHS Health shopping, insurance, mobiles, and more! all members of staff, their partners and any dependants between the Service Discounts website as healthcare-related charity staff and receive ages of 16 & 24 in full time education, have access to a free and discounts on shopping, insurance, mobiles, and more! Volunteering anonymous service providing information, expert advice and specialist Volunteering All staff are encouraged to volunteer at Target Ovarian Cancer events at least counselling to deal with a wide range of issues staff may encounter in all staff are encouraged to volunteer at Target Ovarian Cancer events at Volunteering twice a year. Time off in lieu is given for these volunteering times when staff their personal or work lives. least twice a year. Time off in lieu is given for these volunteering times volunteer out of working hours. all staff are encouraged to volunteer at Target Ovarian Cancer events at when staff volunteer out of working hours. least twice a year. Time off in lieu is given for these volunteering times Health Service Discounts when staff volunteer out of working hours. Pension Pension all Target Ovarian Cancer staff are eligible to sign up to the NHS Health Pension 5 per cent employer contribution. 5 per cent employer contribution. Service Discounts website as healthcare-related charity staff and receive 5 per cent employer contribution. Pension discounts on shopping, insurance, mobiles, and more! 5 per cent employer contribution. Volunteering all staff are encouraged to volunteer at Target Ovarian Cancer events at least twice a year. Time off in lieu is given for these volunteering times when staff volunteer out of working hours. Pension 5 per cent employer contribution. I was made to feel so welcome by everyone at Target Ovarian Cancer from my very first day, and that support has definitely continued. The hybrid working model works well, but there are still plenty of great opportunities for us all to meet in person. Everyone has a really strong understanding and passion for our work and what we’re here to achieve, and it’s fantastic to be a part of that.” 7 - Anna, Digital Marketing Manager Interest-free season ticket loan Allowing staff to spread the cost of annual public travel to and from the office over a set period of time. Childcare vouchers Available to those already on the childcare voucher scheme. Childcare vouchers Available to those already on the childcare voucher scheme. Buddy system Buddy system All new starters are allocated a buddy to help welcome them into the Buddy system charity and support them in settling in. All new starters are allocated a buddy to help welcome them into the All new starters are allocated a buddy to help welcome them into the charity charity and support them in settling in. and support them in settling in. Work life balance Work life balance Work life balance Hybrid working Hybrid working Our hybrid working policy means staff may usually work from their home or Hybrid working Our hybrid working policy means staff may usually work from their home remote location, and are expected to attend meetings and pay for their own Hybrid working or remote location, and are expected to attend meetings and pay for Our hybrid working policy means staff may usually work from their home travel to the office in Angel, London when required. Our hybrid working policy means staff may usually work from their home their own travel to the office in Angel, London when required. or remote location, and are expected to attend meetings and pay for Social committee or remote location, and are expected to attend meetings and pay for their own travel to the office in Angel, London when required. Social committee Target Ovarian Cancer’s social committee organises fun social events their own travel to the office in Angel, London when required. Social committee Target Ovarian Cancer’s social committee organises fun social events creating creating a sense of togetherness and wellbeing among our valued staff. a sense of togetherness and wellbeing among our valued staff. Social committee Target Ovarian Cancer’s social committee organises fun social events Social committee creating a sense of togetherness and wellbeing among our valued staff. Target Ovarian Cancer’s social committee organises fun social events Flexible working Target Ovarian Cancer’s social committee organises fun social events Flexible working Flexible working creating a sense of togetherness and wellbeing among our valued staff. Our standard full-time working week is 37.5 hours. We make every effort creating a sense of togetherness and wellbeing among our valued staff. Our standard full-time working week is 35 hours. We make every effort to Flexible working Our standard full-time working week is 37.5 hours. We make every effort to support flexible working requests where possible (we respect people's support flexible working requests where possible (we respect people's different to support flexible working requests where possible (we respect people's Flexible working Our standard full-time working week is 37.5 hours. We make every effort different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life balance). Flexible working different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life to support flexible working requests where possible (we respect people's Our standard full-time working week is 37.5 hours. We make every effort balance). Our standard full-time working week is 37.5 hours. We make every effort balance). different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life to support flexible working requests where possible (we respect people's to support flexible working requests where possible (we respect people's balance). different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life balance). balance). Target Ovarian Cancer is committed to the promotion of equal opportunity and does not discriminate against employees for job applications on the basis of race, sexual orientation, religion, colour, sex, age, national origin, disability or any other status or condition protected by applicable law. This policy extends to but is not limited to recruitment, selection, remuneration, benefits, promotion, training, 8 transfer and termination. To apply, please submit a CV and answers to the screening questions to jobs@targetovariancancer.org.uk. Please also complete this equalities monitoring form and send to equalities@targetovariancancer.org.uk. Please submit your application by 23:59 on Sunday 10 May 2026. We appreciate that candidates may use AI tools to refine their applications. However, we encourage you to ensure your application remains a true and authentic reflection of your skills, experiences, and personality. Excessive reliance on AI-generated content may impact your ability to stand out and could be discussed during the interview process. If you would like to receive a paper copy of the recruitment pack, please call 0207 923 5470 or email jobs@targetovariancancer.org.uk with the address you would like us to post it to. We want to make our recruitment accessible to all, if there is a way we can support you in your application, Target Ovarian Cancer is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (No. 6619981). please contact us at jobs@targetovariancancer.org.uk. Registered office: 10-18 Union Street, London, SE1 1SZ. Registered charity numbers 1125038 (England and Wales) and SC042920 (Scotland). 9