Junior Designer

With a bold brand, a growing team, and an ambition to accelerate our impact in a rapidly changing world, it’s an exciting time to join Prostate Cancer UK.

As a Junior Designer you’ll play a key role in our growth, creating impactful branded content, across digital and print, which inspires our audiences to act.

Our Creative Unit works in partnership with others to create visual content and ensures our brand remains relevant, bold and innovative. They’re the guardians of our brand and our film and photography and design experts.

This is an excellent opportunity for a graduate or newly qualified designer to work with a distinctive brand and develop their skills in a fast-paced, friendly in-house, multi-disciplined Creative Unit.

You’ll report directly to one of our Senior Designers and will assist on a wide variety of projects across digital, print and merchandise. You’ll provide artwork support to the team, and there’ll be exciting opportunities to feed into the creative process as well.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and highly organised creative who is eager and excited to learn. You’ll have an intuitive understanding of design and a great passion for it and experience working on digital and print design projects.

You’ll be a great communicator, able to adapt to our tone of voice and be friendly and approachable and able to express your opinion. A problem-solver with quick reflexes, you effortlessly manage multiple projects, showcasing your agility and adaptability.

You’ll have experience using Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, and maybe some experience using Animate and After Effects too.

As part of your application please can you include a link to your PDF portfolio or website. In this we’re looking to see a great attention to detail, layout and typographic skills and an ability to follow brand guidelines.

Every man needs to know about the most common cancer in men – prostate cancer. It’s a real and present danger that takes over 12,000 of our dads, grandads, brothers and friends each year.

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men’s health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition – to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We’re blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you’ll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We’ll support you to develop your skills and expertise.

We offer a

• Generous leave entitlements that increase with service
• One ‘development day’ a month to use for training or personal development
• Enhanced contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance and group income protection
• Health Cash Plan
• Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts
• Loans for season tickets or cycles

This role is in salary Band 2A and is paid at the London Living Wage, currently £14.80 per hour (£28,860 per year full time). After 12 months of successful service, there will be a small increase to the midpoint of the band.

Our salaries reflect that the London office is our contractual place of work. We also pay a working-from-home allowance at the HMRC tax-free rate of £312 per year.

We are committed to paying at least the London Living Wage for all roles and apply the updated rate each April.

At Prostate Cancer UK we’re committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men. This includes ground-breaking research into Black men's risk and working with communities directly to overcome barriers to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. To make this happen, we're dedicated to being an inclusive, proactive organisation, as we strive to be Allies to Black communities. We’ll achieve this by advocating and working alongside those communities to promote change. We're also working to be Allies to each other, not only protected groups. In 2024, we launched our New Allyship Training Programme. All colleagues at Prostate Cancer UK will be trained to act and identify as an Ally.

We've also signed Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter, as a dedication to our Black health equity work and wider EDI priorities. As a signatory, we're responsible and accountable for driving positive change.

We’re continuously learning more about the needs of our colleagues, and have three amazing People Networks, sponsored by our Leadership team:

• Pride – A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues – and our allies – can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people
• Mind and Body – Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affected by neurodiversity, mental health problems, disability and long-term illness
• Culture Club – Here to increase awareness and celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that we have in the organisation, so that we all have our cultures felt and feel welcomed

Colleagues attend the office

Additional in-person attendance will be required during your first few months for induction and training, to support you to learn the role and get to know colleagues.

We trust colleagues to work flexibly while balancing personal commitments with the needs of the charity, and we are committed to making reasonable adjustments for colleagues with a disability, neurodiversity, or a long-term physical or mental health condition.

For more information about the role, please download the job description and read the ‘How to apply’ section below. This includes the key points to address in your application. To apply click the ‘apply now’ button at the top or bottom of the page which will take you through to our application portal.

To complete your application, you’ll be asked to upload your CV and complete the supporting information section through our application portal. For your supporting statement, please complete parts one and two of the application form; each section has an 8,000-character limit (approximately 1,000 words).

You may find it helpful to use a method such as the ‘

This section is your opportunity to demonstrate how your knowledge, skills, and experience match the role. The information you provide will be used to assess and shortlist applications and you’ll be scored against how you respond to these points.

• A passion for design and a strong understanding of design principles.
• Proven experience of working on digital and print design projects following a brief.
• First-class layout and typography skills with great attention to detail.
• Great communicator – friendly and approachable.
• Able to work independently and actively participate in a team.
• Technical skills across Adobe Creative Cloud (including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and Microsoft applications.

This provides you with an opportunity to further support your application, showcase your understanding of the role and show how you feel you’ll be able to contribute to the success of Prostate Cancer UK.

Apply via the apply now link at the top and bottom of this page where you’ll be taken through to our career portal.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company number 02653887.