Macmillan Cancer Support Jobs

Executive Assistant to Chief Engagement Officer
Permanent
Full time (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location – Split between home (2 days a week) and our London Office (3 days a week)
Salary Range - £35,500 - £39,500

About us
At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive Executive Assistant to support the Chief Engagement Officer at Macmillan Cancer Support. This instrumental role will provide executive and administrative assistance to help deliver our strategic and operational objectives.

In addition to supporting the Chief Engagement Officer, you will role-model administrative best practices, collaborating effectively across the Engagement directorate and wider organisation to ensure high-quality output. You’ll be proactive, responsive to the Chief Engagement Officer’s needs, and ready to step in and support the team when required, demonstrating a hands-on, can-do attitude.

About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Managing diary, travel, appointments, and external engagements for executives and/or senior leaders
• Handling correspondence, ensuring confidentiality and high-quality output.
• Overseeing departmental budgets, including invoices and expenses.
• Collaborating with internal teams to ensure seamless operations and engagement opportunities.
• Managing workflow and ensuring the executive and/or senior leaders' time is utilised effectively.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days 
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Wednesday 5th March 2025

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

Legacy Promotions Assistant
Permanent x 1
Fixed Term Contract – 6 months x 1
Full time (34.5 hours)
Hybrid between home and our London Office
£23,600 - £26,000 per annum

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role

We are currently seeking a strong administrator for our Legacy Promotions Team to deliver effective data processing, timely administration, and proactive project support. You will also deliver high-level customer, addressing queries through email, phone, and in-person while directing customers to appropriate resources. 

With strong data processing skills, you will ensure the smooth flow of data from lead generation to fulfilling supporter requests, maintain donor and activity databases, and ensure accurate tracking of KPIs and spending against management accounts. Additionally, you'll provide general administrative support, such as coordinating meetings, preparing presentations, taking minutes, arranging travel, and managing schedules, and assisting Legacy Promotions Managers with campaign and project needs.

Occasional UK travel and evening/weekend working may be required.

About you

We’re looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong administration experience
• Experience in customer relationship management
• Good communications skills to a wide variety of audiences
• Data processing skills, with working knowledge of Microsoft excel
• Project Management skills
• Interest in marketing

About our benefits

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: Tuesday 4th March 2025 at 23:59.

1st interviews w/c 10th March 2025.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So that we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team for advice and reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

Legacy Officer
Permanent appointment
Full time (34.5 hours)
Hybrid between home and our London Office
£31,000 - £34,000 per annum

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role

We are currently seeking an experienced Legacy professional with a good understanding of charity legacy administration, to assist Macmillan in receiving its rightful entitlements from gifts in supporters' wills in a timely manner, by collaborating with executors and other charities to maximize the value of each gift whilst also aiming to enhance the charity's reputation.

The postholder will manage pecuniary and lower-risk residuary gifts, ensuring executors, family, and friends have a positive experience with Macmillan as a beneficiary. Responsibilities include accurately recording data, creating valuations per the Charity Commission’s SORP 2019 and Macmillan’s Legacy Income Recognition Policy, and assessing any conditions on gift usage. Communication with executors and co-beneficiaries will occur via letters, emails, and phone calls. Additionally, you will gather stories to promote legacy giving and adhere to all data protection laws.

About you

We’re looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

• Understanding of Charity Legacy Administration and/or Estate Administration within private practice and/or have done electives in Probate as part of a law degree or Graduate Diploma in Law.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including a confident and welcoming telephone manner.
• Strong relationship building skills.
• Knowledge of data protection law.
• Technology Skills, including working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite.

About our benefits

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: Tuesday 4 March 2025 at 23:59.

1st interviews w/c 10 March 2025.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So that we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team for advice and reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

Safeguarding Officer
Permanent
Full time (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location –  Split between home and our London Office (min 2 days a week)
Salary Range £35,500 - £39,500
 

About us
At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role
We are looking for two Safeguarding Officers to join our Safeguarding Team at Macmillan. In this role you will be supporting Macmillan with our commitment to providing safeguarding support (both directly and indirectly), as well as developing support mechanisms and training promoting physical and psychological safety and wellbeing for users of our services, volunteers and our employees.

You will be an organisation wide expert on safeguarding & mental health issues with responsibility and accountability for developing, delivering, reporting on, and embedding general safeguarding, Mental Health and/or Suicide First Aid training and other relevant training sessions.

You will help provide safeguarding support to Macmillan during the operational hours of 8am - 8pm and an out of hours service between 8pm - 9pm Monday to Friday, and 8am-9pm weekends and bank holidays.

This role plays a crucial part in Macmillan’s development and delivery of its Reward and Wellbeing strategy as part of its wider People & Culture work. As part of our desire to further increase our impact of our safeguarding function across Macmillan, the successful applicant is expected to work a minimum of 2 days per week in our London Office. There may be a requirement on occasion for travel (in line with our expense policy) to other venues across the UK. 

About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Recognised qualification in Safeguarding Adults and/or Child Protection or significant experience of working with vulnerable groups in a safeguarding capacity.
• Excellent working knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding theory and application, legislation and policy across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
• Experience of developing and implementing Safeguarding strategies, policies, and training.
• Exceptional communication skills and experience of working in a confidential manner.
• Ability to travel across the UK, including occasional overnight stays.
• Experience of delivering Mental Health First Aid and / or Suicide First Aid training would be beneficial

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days 
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Wednesday 26th February 2025
 

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

External Affairs Adviser - 3 posts available
Permanent 
Full time (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Salary Range £35,000 - £39,000
Location:
Home based in the UK or split between home and our London Bridge office - two posts 
Split between home (3 days) and our London Bridge office (2 days) - one post

About us
At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role
Do you have experience influencing change and navigating complex political systems? We need three External Affairs Advisers to join our wider Partnerships team at Macmillan to help us to deliver meaningful change for people with cancer, particularly the most marginalised groups. 

The External Affairs team is central to Macmillan’s work shaping and influencing decision makers across the UK, and a key part of your role will be building and stewarding relationships with our external stakeholders.

As an External Affairs Adviser you’ll have an opportunity to work flexibly across a whole range of influencing projects to shape the political agenda in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, at a regional level in England and in Westminster, reflecting our ambitious plans to deliver change for people with cancer across the whole of the UK.

You’ll be exposed to a variety of political systems, decision makers and ways of working that will allow you to build on and develop your skills in public affairs, policy analysis, relationship management and communication. 

About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Experience of influencing change - this might be from working in a charity, for a politician, in local or national government, a public affairs agency or think tank.  
• Experience analysing and translating data and evidence into external messaging to influence a wide range of audiences. 
• Experience of working in at least one political context in the UK, and willingness to adapt your skills to working within a wide range of influencing environments and different stakeholders. 
• An adaptable approach, with a willingness to respond to quickly changing external circumstances and work at pace to navigate through complex issues.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and working collaboratively with others to deliver projects.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days 
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process
Application deadline: Thursday 27th February 2025
 

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.