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The Storyteller’s Story!

We have fantastic stories across our charity, which demonstrate the difference our work makes to people affected by cancer. We use case studies to bring our work to life and ignite a fire in people to support the cause. But we need someone to tell them. And the magic ingredient to bring our stories to life is YOU!

So, we’re looking for an empathetic, skilled writer and communicator who can get to the heart of someone’s story and developing it in an engaging way for use across the charity. Our stories can be found through people who use our services, our fundraisers, volunteers, and supporters.

Giving a voice so people’s stories can be heard when it comes to cancer and the work we do across Wales means this role is super important. It needs to be done right and have impact, so you need to not just be good at what you do - but great. And do it through our communication style, tone and language.

To make up a perfect storyteller, you’ll need:

• Plenty of empathy, as well as tip-top listening and understanding skills
• Strong writing skills and the ability to write in different genres
• Experience in getting to the heart of someone’s story and producing engaging copy
• Capability to interview and tell the stories of people who have a cancer diagnosis or a person who has lost a loved one to cancer
• Exposure to writing within brand guidelines using set language and tone of voice that could support our messaging
• Confidence in building and nurturing relationships, promoting diversity, and supporting our values
• Sensitivity, respect, and understanding while working within professional boundaries

You might have told stories as a journalist, been a storyteller in the third sector or as a seasoned self-employed writer looking for a part-time contract.

What’s important is you have a professional and creative flair to your written communication style that captures emotive content effectively and have a portfolio to be proud of.

That sounds like me! What’s next?

Let’s get creative!

Send us your CV and the story of you....

Update your CV experience and put pen to paper or get tapping away.

Instead of the usual covering letter, tell us your story. We’re capping things at 500 words for you to tell us what this role would mean for you. What impact do you want to make and why? And, how you’ll go about it. Is there something you’ve done when it comes to storytelling you’re super proud of that could make all the difference to what we’re trying to achieve? What inspires and motivates you to feel passionate about this sort of thing?

As well as looking for a good level of experience and exposure, we’re looking for passion and great attention to detail and creativity. If you can show you can get a handle on our tone of voice, even better.

The Storyteller job:

In this Storytelling role you can expect to be doing things like:

• Meeting someone we’ve supported through our services to sensitively capture their personal story and communicate the impact we’ve had during their cancer experience
• Being a copy-writing connoisseur to create short or long form real-life stories for our website, social media or external press
• Spending an afternoon talking with a volunteer to understand the importance their voluntary experience has for them and the difference it makes to us as a charity
• Attending an event to capture a fundraising group’s experience and translate that into a persuasive written piece to encourage others to get involved
• Supporting and working with a team of colleagues in nurturing service-user, supporter and volunteer relationships
• Creatively capturing content alongside your Digital Content Producer colleague

The Full Job Description and Person Specification: 

https://www.tenovuscancercare.org.uk/media/gffgv44v/storyteller-job-description-storyteller.pdf

The Logistics

• Permanent Storyteller
• Pay:£23,800 (pro rata) £9,5200
• Apply by: 11 August with your CV & your story (make sure you’re checking the Person Specification along the way)

Hours: 14 hours per week supported by flexible working

Around the nature and needs of this type of role we’re open to making the working week fit into your lifestyle. Sometimes you may need to work an evening or weekend so days and hours can be built in and around our standard operating week set out in our staff benefits.

Place of work: Home-based (or you can work in Head Office)

We welcome applications from anyone across Wales or its borders. Most of the job is done from home or where we do our work across Wales. Our Cardiff city center Head Office is always available for you to work in too. Occasional travel is expected for example attending events or meeting with individuals every couple of months, as well as seeing you in the office bi-annually, as a minimum, for things such as in-person team meetings.

Your Staff Benefits

In return you’ll be part of a people-orientated culture, make impact through a worthwhile cause and have staff benefits such as: 

• Core working hours 11am-3pm to fit work your lifestyle and personal life around our 7am-9pm general operating hours (flexibility in this type of role required around events)
• Super flexible place of work options with no minimum Cardiff head office weekly attendance requirement although we encourage as much in office work as possible
• A generous 35 days annual leave including public holidays that increases with length of service (pro rata’d for part time staff)
• Your birthday off work once you’ve been here for 12 months.
• Opportunity to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave per year
• Occupational sick pay after completion of probationary period
• Contributory pension scheme
• A tailored induction and support programme to help you succeed and excel
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering access to 24/7 confidential advice and support
• The opportunity to participate in staff volunteer activities to support the wider organisation
• The opportunity to learn from, grow with, support and develop people who volunteer with US

 About us

Around 20,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in Wales every year. We’re proud to support over 10% of those and we want to be there many more.

We give help, hope, and a voice to everyone affected by cancer. We understand how cancer can impact every aspect of life and how it affects families and friends too. Our wide range of services offer information, advice, and specialist support to people living with cancer, and their loved ones.

We’re committed to listening to the real experiences of people affected by cancer in Wales to drive the changes that make a difference.

More about US

At Tenovus Cancer Care we’re committed to making our workplace diverse and inclusive where everyone feels they belong and can be their authentic selves at work. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer who does not discriminate based on the Equality Act 2010’s Protected Characteristics. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and we will adjust our recruitment processes where we can to support people who wish to join us.

When our people talk about working here they’re proud to reflect our values. They’ll use words such as friendly, fun and welcoming to describe their experience and love our work culture around job flexibility. As well as it being a nice place to work for a good cause the staff benefits are good. On top of the above we’ve got a stylish Head Office in the heart of Cardiff and things to support you in and out of work like an interactive induction programme, an accessible Learning Platform, development opportunities and experienced managers. Plus a Staff Social Committee who organise regular get togethers!

Your Personal Data

We’re committed to being transparent about how we collect and use that data and to meeting our data protection obligations and you can find full details about this in our Job Application Privacy Notice here on our Work for us page on the Tenovus Cancer website.

Should you have any queries regarding the use of your personal data, please contact people@tenovuscancercare.org.uk