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Strategic Evidence & Engagement Intern

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Cancer Research UK

Oct 18, 2023

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Starts on Jan 08
    Off-cycle Internship
  • Business, Operations & Strategy
    Healthcare
  • London

Requirements

  • What skills are you looking for?:
  • You’ll be able to bring to the role: 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including excellent attention to detail
  • Effectiveness in project planning, delivery and all logistical aspects of meeting management and event coordination
  • Strong planning and organisational skills, with proven ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple priorities, often with fixed deadlines
  • Proactive and self-motivated with excellent problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • What will I be doing?:
  • The purpose of this role would be to support the Engagement team, in particular looking to support with the organisation of the next CRUK Early Diagnosis Research Conference event, which are very popular amongst the early diagnosis medical/academic/clinical community.
  • Role and Purpose:
  • The Strategic Evidence (SE) team translates evidence across the cancer pathway for a range of different audiences. We are divided into two sub-teams: the Evidence & Research team and the Engagement team, where this role will sit predominantly. The Evidence & Research team are responsible for generating, collating and triangulating evidence across the cancer pathway - in particular focusing on optimising services and innovations. The Engagement team are then responsible for channelling this evidence and insight into a range of teams both internally at CRUK and externally, and developing impactful, evidence-based content including webpages and resources, for a range of audiences across the health system pathway. We are also responsible for organising the CRUK Early Diagnosis Research Conference events which take place both virtually and F2F.
  • This role would be very varied, with the opportunity to get involved in lots of different activities to support with comms to key health system stakeholders around innovation and the early diagnosis of cancer. There would also be the opportunity to support the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) team (who are linked to the SE team), an international multidisciplinary collaboration founded to facilitate mutual learning about factors that may help to improve outcomes for. The ICBP produces high quality research to help identify best international practice, and generate insights needed for policy and practice change. This will help to enable optimisation of cancer services and improvement of outcomes for cancer patients.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Working closely with the Manager to develop resources and webpages around the early diagnosis of cancer for a range of health system audiences, in particular GPs
  • Provide event management and support for key stakeholder meetings, events and conferences e.g. the Early Diagnosis Research Conference or Virtual Series, including organising logistics
  • Supporting with the planning, delivery and evaluation of the SE team newsletters, including scoping and writing content and liaising with key stakeholders
  • Supporting with the management and evaluation of the CRUK HCP Twitter Handle
  • Potential to also support the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) team

Application Process

  • Stage 1: Online application   
  • Complete an online application form – you’ll be asked to answer a motivational competency question and upload your CV.   
  • In our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we operate an anonymised shortlisting process. Please therefore ensure that you have completed the work history section of the application form in full and that you have answered all application questions, as this is the information we will be using to shortlist. CVs are required to be uploaded for all applications, as they will be collected for use later in the process. 
  • Stage 2: Assessment
  • If your initial application is successful you will then be invited to complete our situational judgment test. The test poses real life scenarios that a CRUK intern might be met with in their day to day role and asks how you would tackle that scenario. This is un-timed and multiple choice. Please let us know if you think you might require adjustments for this assessment.   
  • Stage 3: Audio Submission
  • If you are successful in the previous stage, you will be asked to complete an audio submission, answering competency-based questions. The questions will be emailed to you and you will have a few days to submit a response via an audio recording (no video required).   
  • Stage 4: Interviews
  • If you are successful in the previous stage, you will then be invited to a face-to-face interview at our head office or a virtual interview with representatives from the team you are applying to.   
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Cancer Research UK

Science & Healthcare
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
2002
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Cancer Research UK is a renowned charitable organisation dedicated to advancing cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and support. Their overarching goal is to bring about a future where all cancers are cured, ensuring that individuals can lead full and healthy lives. Through funding groundbreaking research, raising awareness, and providing crucial support, Cancer Research UK strives to make a profound impact on cancer outcomes. Their relentless efforts are focused on improving prevention strategies, enhancing early detection methods, and developing effective treatments, with the ultimate aim of saving lives and improving the well-being of those affected by cancer.

Benefits

  • Flexible Working

    We encourage a flexible working culture, including options such as home-working, reduced or flexi-hours, job shares, job-splits, compressed and core hours. We offer a high level of flexibility for the vast majority of our office-based roles, meaning that you’ll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average.

  • Income Protection and Life Assurance

    We provide all staff with free insurance policies, paying 50% of your salary if you are unable to work through illness, and up to 4 times your salary for your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen and you die while in our employment.

  • Pension

    Our Retirement Plan is worth up to 12% of salary and offers all employees a flexible way to build a pension fund, no matter which stage of your career you’re at. You’ll be given choice, control, financial benefits and valuable protection benefits. It is a defined contribution plan, which means contributions paid into the plan by you and by Cancer Research UK are invested in the funds you choose—you can have as little or as much control over this as you want.

  • Payroll giving

    We offer all employees a way to support any charity of their choice tax-free through their salary. Payroll Giving is a very effective way of supporting causes close to your heart: A £10 monthly donation will only cost you £8 as a standard tax-rate payer and even less, £6 if you are higher tax-rate payer.

  • Annual Leave

    For the majority of our roles we offer 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays, and an extra day for Christmas Eve. You can choose to use the religious bank holidays flexibly.