Job Description

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Contract: Fixed term (2 years), Full time

Short summary

We are seeking an experienced and creative content producer to lead the content creation for the new family pages of the Crick website. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping a project to expand and improve our digital offer for family audiences, engaging more families across the UK with the Crick and discovery science.

Key Responsibilities

Content production

• Produce regular, high-quality, scientifically accurate and compelling digital content inspired by Crick science - including videos, hand-on activities and downloadable worksheets - in order to expand and deepen our engagement with family audiences at a national level.
• Develop a good understanding of Crick research, building relationships with Crick scientists and identifying opportunities to collaborate on new content and activities, ensuring accuracy, and giving the scientists an important opportunity to build their skills and confidence in communicating their work to non-scientific audiences.
• Identify opportunities to enhance, develop and repurpose existing Crick content and activities to develop new digital family engagement resources.
• Ensure our digital families\' content and platforms are accessible and underpinned by best-practice EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) and access principles.

Content strategy development

• Work with colleagues in the Communications and Public Engagement Team and our web development agency to develop and maintain a content strategy for the new family pages of the Crick website, ensuring we have a sustainable approach for creating new digital family engagement resources.
• Contribute to horizon scanning to ensure that the Crick keeps up with digital developments and continues to produce content that meets the needs of our audiences.
• Work with our Marketing and Digital Content teams to develop a marketing plan for our digital family resources in order to maximise its reach through digital channels (website, social media and email) and other non-digital channels.

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL (University College London), Imperial College London and King\'s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

• If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
• The closing date for applications is 19 September 2023.
• All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

\xc2\xa336,680 to \xc2\xa341,500 with benefits, subject to skills and experience

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