About Us
Bowel Cancer UK is the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. We support and fund targeted research, provide expert information and support to patients and their families, educate the public and professionals about the disease and campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care.
We currently have employees working across four nations in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Thanks to the generosity of our community, we’re in a privileged position to be able to deliver our ambitious new strategy, On a Mission. There are huge challenges facing bowel cancer patients across the UK and our community needs us now more than ever. We’re building a strong and united team to bring us closer to a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer.
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Digital Delivery Lead to lead the planning and delivery of Bowel Cancer UK's new website.
Working with our website development agency and colleagues across the organisation, you will play a pivotal role in delivering a modern, accessible and user-centred website that supports our strategic ambitions and better serves our audiences.
The website development agency has already been appointed and will lead technical design and development. As the client-side lead for the project, you will provide informed technical and delivery oversight across the entire programme, ensuring successful delivery of a complex CMS-driven website transformation.
You will bring previous experience of leading similar website redevelopment projects, enabling you to effectively challenge requirements, user stories, content models, workflows, technical recommendations and scope throughout discovery and delivery. Alongside managing agency and stakeholder relationships, you will lead critical workstreams including content migration, testing and quality assurance, launch planning, organisational readiness and post-launch optimisation, ensuring the new platform is delivered on time, within budget and to a high standard of quality, accessibility and user experience.
We're looking for someone who is passionate about delivering digital experiences that make a real difference. You'll combine excellent project management skills with a strong technical understanding and exceptional attention to audience needs, helping us deliver an ambitious website transformation that supports our mission and drives meaningful impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery of the organisation's website redevelopment project from discovery through to launch and post-launch optimisation, ensuring requirements, technical solutions and delivery outputs align with organisational objectives, audience needs and agreed success measures.
- Coordinate technical delivery activities with the website agency and internal Digital, Data and IT teams, ensuring technical requirements, integrations, hosting, security, accessibility and data protection considerations are identified and addressed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage project governance, planning, reporting, budget monitoring, risk management and decision-making processes. Produce regular status updates, track progress against milestones and deliverables, and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies and changes throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead the planning and delivery of the website launch, coordinating internal teams and external suppliers to ensure sign off, launch readiness, overseeing testing, training and risk management, and establishing performance measures to support ongoing optimisation and continuous improvement.
- Act as the lead contact for the website agency, providing informed challenge and oversight throughout discovery, design and development. Review sprint plans, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications and technical recommendations, coordinating internal feedback, decisions and approvals to support delivery against agreed scope, timelines, budget and quality standards.
Please note that we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date or extend the application period, depending on the number of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.
Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and at Bowel Cancer UK we are committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Successful candidates may be subject to either a satisfactory basic, standard or enhanced DBS check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) dependent upon the role.
