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London, Greater London (Hybrid)
£37,000 - £40,000 per year
Full-time
Permanent
Job description

Prospect Research Officer
Contract type: Permanent
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Hybrid between home and our London office (typically 1 day per week in office)
Salary range: £37,000 - £40,000

Are you a naturally curious researcher who loves turning insight into opportunity? Do you have a talent for writing high‑quality briefs and building strong, collaborative relationships?

We’re looking for a Prospect Research Officer who can help unlock transformative income to support people living with cancer.


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.

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good.


About the role

This is a pivotal role within our newly established Prospect Development and Insight function, giving you the opportunity to shape how we identify, research, and prioritise the high‑value prospects who can make transformational gifts to Macmillan.

You will be responsible for feeding high‑quality insight directly to fundraisers, supporting them to grow pipelines, prioritise approaches, and unlock opportunities across corporate partnerships, philanthropy, and trusts. You’ll use a wide range of research techniques and tools to identify prospects, evaluate their potential, support risk management through due diligence, and provide concise, high‑impact briefings for fundraisers and senior leaders.


Key responsibilities:

  • Identify and qualify high‑value prospects using press scanning, wealth screening, network mapping, and research tools.
  • Produce clear and concise prospect profiles, briefings and event research for fundraisers and senior stakeholders.
  • Conduct due diligence on prospects and donors, assessing risks and escalating where appropriate.
  • Work collaboratively with fundraisers to support pipeline development, prioritisation and movement of prospects.
  • Provide market insight and trend analysis to help shape fundraising strategy and highlight new opportunities.
  • Ensure all research activity complies with GDPR, the Data Protection Act, and internal policies.


About you

The successful candidate will bring:

  • Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to summarise complex information clearly and concisely.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative working style.
  • Excellent IT, database, research, analytical and organisational skills, including the ability to manipulate data to extract insights.
  • Good awareness and understanding of the current corporate and philanthropy fundraising landscape.
  • An enquiring mind, with the ability to challenge conventional thinking and draw out fresh perspectives on opportunities for donor development.

The following skills are nice-to-have but can be developed in‑role:

  • Experience in prospect research, including identifying and prioritising prospects, network mapping, due diligence and developing gift capacity ratings.
  • Experience using relational databases, ideally Raiser’s Edge.


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: 23:59 on Sunday 15th March
Interviews: Virtual Interviews will be held on the week commencing 23rd March (exact dates TBC)

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 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 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.

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Organisation
Macmillan Cancer Support View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size More than 1000

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer.

Posted on: 27 February 2026
Closing date: 15 March 2026 at 23:30
Tags: Fundraising, Cancer, Data Analysis, Partnerships, Research, Corporate Fundraising, Major Donor, Trusts / Foundations

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