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VOLUNTEERING OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE

Reports to: Volunteering Operations Manager

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part-time 14 hours per week

Location: Home-based in England with regular national travel (team meetings/away days)

Closing date: Sunday 15 June 2025, 23:55*

* We'll be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and may close early should we receive enough interest, therefore early application is encouraged to avoid disappointment.

Please note: 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 are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Volunteering Operations Executive who will be joining the Volunteering Team at an exciting time as we deliver an org wide strategy to improve volunteer experiences and provide meaningful and rewarding ways for everyone to use their time to make a difference in our mission to beat cancer.

What will I be doing?

• Manage internal enquires from CRUK staff about Volunteering. This includes answering queries, triaging queries and keeping a log to identify themes.
• Manage, analyse and improve business processes to meet the changing needs of the organisation
• Support team members to deliver programmes of work or projects through a variety of tasks including research, preparing information, tracking and identifying themes
• Responsible for keeping the Volunteering Team SharePoint up to date, collating regular team updates and supporting on the organisation, administration and delivery of meeting and events
• Provide expert advice on the subject matter of Volunteering to colleagues across the organisation.

What skills are you looking for?

• IT literate, with a very good understanding of Microsoft Office
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal and to a variety of audiences
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy, well organised and a strong ability to prioritise
• Proven experience of supporting a team
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong presentation, proposal and report writing skills
• Ability to build strong relationships with both Internal and External stakeholders.

Thanks to our dedicated supporters and volunteers, we've been at the heart of progress that has seen cancer survival in the UK double over the past 40 years. Thousands of others volunteer their time and skills or fundraise to help us beat cancer. We're hugely proud of our volunteers, and we're delighted to be Investing in Volunteers accredited, the UK quality standard for good practice in volunteer management.

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.

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 quickly, fairly and objectively.

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At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

As the world’s leading cancer research charity, we are at the forefront of the global fight against cancer, bringing together millions of people who share our determination to beat it.

Beating cancer means beating it for everyone. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone can feel like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.

We must also become a truly sustainable organisation environmentally, financially and operationally if we are to achieve our mission.

We are working towards a world where everybody lives longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer. A world where some types of cancer are effectively eliminated and many more are prevented from developing in the first place. A world where cancers are diagnosed earlier to ensure successful treatment with kinder, more effective treatments. A world where everyone shares in this progress equally, regardless of who they are, where they come from or what type of cancer they have.

And research offers hope – with new ideas, tools, and technologies to unravel cancer’s complexity that were unimaginable just a few years ago.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you.

Together, we will beat cancer.

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