Black Health Equity Programme Manager

Region

London

Vacancy Type

Permanent/Full Time

Job Summary

Black Health Equity Programme Manager

£40,500 to £47,700

Permanent full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge Office

Join Us in Driving Health Equity

Every day, Black men face stark inequalities in prostate cancer care - 1 in 4 will be diagnosed, and they're more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage. At Prostate Cancer UK, we're determined to change that. Our new Black Health Equity Strategy 2025–2030 is bold, ambitious, and shaped by Black men for Black men. As Programme Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in turning this vision into reality, leading projects that save lives and transform experiences.

What the job involves

As Black Health Equity Programme Manager, you'll be at the heart of delivering our bold new Black Health Equity Strategy 2025–2030, designed by Black men, for Black men. This is a hands-on role where you'll turn strategy into action, ensuring that every milestone is met and every programme makes a real difference.

You'll:

• Lead delivery of projects tackling health inequalities, from early diagnosis initiatives to culturally informed support programmes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Health Services, Fundraising, Communications, and Finance to keep everything on track.
• Manage impact reporting, ensuring we measure what matters and share results with senior stakeholders.
• Line manage a Senior Impact Officer, coaching and developing talent.
• Represent the charity at key meetings and events, acting as a trusted ambassador for Black health equity.

Expect to work on projects that eradicate treatment disparities, improve quality of life through personalised support, and ensure Black men are diagnosed early. This is your chance to make a tangible impact on health equity.

What we want from you

We're looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about health equity and motivated to champion change for Black men.
• Experienced in programme management, with the ability to lead complex projects and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Skilled in communication, able to translate technical detail into clear, compelling messages.
• Knowledgeable in public health or health equity, with relevant qualifications or experience.
• A natural leader who is solutions-focused, calm under pressure, and committed to continuous improvement.
• Tech-savvy with working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools.
• An advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion, bringing an open mind and collaborative spirit.

If you're ambitious, driven, and ready to help us deliver life-changing outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

Why work with us?

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.

What we offer

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

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

• 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 4. We will appoint at a salary between £40,500 and £47,700 per year. We aim to pay the median salary for the sector and after 12 months' successful service all colleagues are moved to the midpoint of the pay band. Those appointed below the midpoint will have their salary increased at that time. The midpoint salary for this role is £47,700.

We operate national salaries that account for our contractual base being our London office. 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 implement the new rate from April each year.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

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 Communities 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.

Our people networks

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 & 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

How and where we work

Our hybrid working approach is based on guiding principles and combines choice around where you work effectively most of the time with clear expectations on connection time, usually at our London Bridge office (SE1 2QN).

We are all expected to be in the office at least 4 days a month (pro-rata for part time colleagues) to work with and alongside colleagues in our immediate team and beyond to build connections and strong working relationships. We value that face-to-face time for relationships, projects and decisions. We're very welcome to work there more frequently. Office time is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs to and from the office and other London locations.

We trust our colleagues to work in this way with the flexibility to juggle personal commitments with work. We aim to balance the needs of individuals, teams and the charity.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and will make reasonable adjustments for colleagues with a disability, neurodiversity or long-term physical or mental health condition.

For this role we expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office at least four times a month. There will be some additional in person attendance for training and induction in your first few months to enable you to get to know your new role and colleagues.

Next steps

The closing date is Sunday 7 December 2025. Applications must be submitted by 23:45 UK time.

Interviews: By arrangement. Currently scheduled for the week of 15 December 2025. We are expecting the interviews for this role to be held in person at our office near London Bridge station.

How to apply

To complete your application, you'll be asked to upload your CV and complete the supporting information section through our application portal. Please fill in parts one and two of our application for your personal statement, both have an 8000-character limit. You may wish to use a method such as the 'STAR' technique or similar. When completing the statements please ensure you clearly provide a full and relevant example of how the criteria apply.

PART ONE

Please address the skills, experience and competencies listed under Who you are using real examples where possible and telling us how you are a good match for the role.

This provides you with a great opportunity to showcase your knowledge, skills and experience. The most important aspects of this role will be used in reviewing and shortlisting applications:

• An ambitious leader who recognises the importance of what we are trying to achieve and see your role in that.
• Passionate about the cause and have demonstrable experience of your interest and motivation to champion Black health equity and addressing health disparities
• Ability to lead complex programmes and manage multiple stakeholders across sectors.
• Someone with specialist knowledge and/or qualification in public health, health equity, or programme management.
• Someone who has sound judgement. You work independently, and when faced with issues react calmly and logically.
• Positive, solutions-oriented, and entrepreneurial individual with a drive for excellence.

PART TWO

Please provide us with any further supporting information that you feel will benefit your application. You may want to reference the values and behaviours sections.

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.

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We look forward to receiving your application

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