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Who we are:
Muslim Aid is a UK faith-based international development organisation that provides support to communities around the world affected by disasters, conflict, or endemic poverty without regard to their social, religious, or ethnic background.
Established in 1985, Muslim Aid has facilitated the engagement of the British Muslim and non-Muslim community in support of its work in a variety of ways. Over the years, its humanitarian work has included responses to major crises around the world including, famine in East Africa, earthquakes and flooding in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
We place strong emphasis on long-term development projects that build the capacity of local people to help themselves. In addition to the 5 country offices worldwide we also work with multiple partner offices focusing on sustainable Development Programmes and providing humanitarian relief during times of crisis.
Summary of the role:
The Head of Income Generation & Marketing is a key member of Muslim Aid’s Leadership Team, responsible for executing the organisation’s fundraising and marketing strategy and overseeing all marketing and communications activities across the organisation. The post holder will lead the delivery of income generation plans, providing strategic direction and hands-on operational support to their direct reports to maximise income across all sub-department income streams. They will be accountable for growing and sustaining revenue from a diverse portfolio of supporters across the UK, ensuring income targets are met or exceeded.
The role includes mentoring and leading Management, supporting them to implement effective fundraising activity, achieve ambitious income and renewal targets year on year, and deliver high-quality stewardship experiences for supporters.
About the Role:
- Design and deliver MA’s cross organisational fundraising and marketing strategy with a focus on sustainable and reliable unrestricted income generation. This will include key activities, areas of required investment, KPIs and milestones as well as the projected growth of fundraising income
- Increase and diversify existing and new revenue streams specifically digital, CSR and private philanthropy.
- Drive delivery against income targets by setting clear, ambitious, and achievable operational targets for each income stream, ensuring teams are supported to meet objectives aligned with Muslim Aid’s vision, mission, and strategic goals.
- Provide effective marketing leadership for the organisation in collaboration with key stakeholders and drive forward transformational integrated marketing activities and campaigns.
- Provide inspiring and motivating values-driven leadership to the team that enables them to deliver their goals and achieve their potential.
- Build on the areas of High Net Worth and CSR in regards to income generated from corporate, major donor and trusts so that these areas become part of our sustainable fundraising foundation.
About You:
You must currently hold the right to work in the UK. Muslim Aid is not offering sponsorship for this role
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Experience across diverse fields of fundraising including individual, major and corporate funding and understanding of key fundraising markets.
- Ability to develop and expand digital fundraising.
- Ability to contribute to overall leadership and development of Organisation and bring MA’s fundraising, marketing communication and programme work closer together.
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and promote the charity to various stakeholders.
Why you should apply:
Join Muslim Aid as our Head of Income Generation & Marketing and take a leading role in driving our fundraising and marketing strategy. As a key member of the Leadership Team, you’ll oversee income generation across multiple streams, lead high-performing teams and grow sustainable income from a diverse supporter base across the UK. If you’re passionate about strategic leadership, impactful fundraising and delivering meaningful supporter experiences that enable life-changing humanitarian work, apply now to make a real impact at scale.
Benefits you will enjoy working for us:
- 25 days annual leave + 4 Privilege days
- Hybrid working
- Paid time off for medical appointments
- 2 hours lunch break on Fridays
- Time off in Lieu (TOIL)
- Pension Scheme
How to apply:
To apply please submit your cover letter (no more than 1 page) and CV and a portfolio of your work.
Internally the role is known as: Head of Data Science & Analytics and Reporting
£90,000 - £97,000 (+ Benefits)
Reports to: Director of Data, Insight & Performance
Department: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office).
Visa sponsorship: Cancer Research UK can consider visa sponsorship for this vacancy. If this applies to you, please ensure that this is clearly marked on your application.
Closing date: 25 January 2026 23:55
Recruitment process: One telephone interview followed by two competency-based interviews (the final stage will be face-to-face in our London office)
Interview date: We will be screening on an ongoing basis, first stage interviews will be from the 9th of February 2026
How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.
Cancer Research UK has a vision to bring about a world where everybody can lead longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer. However, to achieve our mission and grow our funding, we must build even greater momentum and urgency around our cause, and engage and inspire millions of people in deeper, more meaningful ways to join our mission. Therefore, we have created a long-term Engage Strategy and designed a bold transformation programme which aims to better harness data and digital marketing technology to deliver more relevant, trusted, and frictionless experiences for our audiences (and in turn drive growth).
As Head of Data Science & Analytics and Reporting you will play an essential role in helping us achieve this mission to place data and audiences at the core of our decision-making process. You will lead our Data Science, Analytics, and Reporting teams through a large data and technology transformation program within our Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement (MFE) directorate. This will involve providing technical support and leadership across a multidisciplinary team to leverage industry best practices for insights, analytics, and reporting. You will spearhead the transition from legacy systems to a robust, scalable, and future-fit tech stack, and develop a highly engaged and talented team of data professionals. Furthermore, you will be at the forefront of our data-driven journey, playing an influential role in creating and nurturing a strong data culture across MFE and the wider organisation.
If you are an experienced Head who has led data analysis and modelling functions in large, complex B2C marketing-led organisations with a digital-first approach, we’d love for you to join our mission.
What will I be doing?
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Supporting and leading the Data, Insight & Performance teams to leverage industry best practices in data and technology for insights, analytics, and reporting across the Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement (MFE) directorate.
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Supporting the Data, Insight & Performance teams in transitioning from legacy systems onto a robust, scalable, and future-fit tech stack.
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Collaborating closely with the Head of Data Strategy and Delivery, Consumer Insight & Experience, and Audience Strategy & Innovation teams to:
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Create an agnostic, integrated view of performance centred on the supporter/consumer.
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Validate opportunities for growth, development, and improvement.
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Proving leadership and expert guidance on data modelling initiatives while championing and validating demand across MFE.
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This will involve supporting technical/operational capabilities for scaling and embedding into end-to-end BAU activities.
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Leading MFE on a journey towards increased automation, ensuring strong data consistency and curation to facilitate self-serve reporting.
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Supporting the Digital marketing team in enhancing the effectiveness of owned, paid, and earned media.
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Ensuring repeat requests are identified and codified for automation, and resources focus on impactful value-add insights and deep dive projects.
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Providing senior technical expertise and guidance across data and modelling initiatives, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and compliance frameworks.
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Identifying and driving process improvements utilising new tools and techniques.
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Keeping abreast of new industry trends and developments, supporting team training, development, and trial adoption (including GenAI).
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Supporting the Data, Insight & Performance Director to enable a step change in data-led ways of working and culture across MFE
What skills will I need?
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Senior leadership experience at Head level or above, with a background leading data analysis and modelling functions in large, complex B2C marketing-led organisations with a digital-first approach.
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Background in technical coding language and data visualisation tools (e.g. SQL, Python, Snowflake, PowerBI, Databricks, GA) and experience implementing best practices, guidance, and standards.
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Experience using statistical analysis to understand and drive value from consumer behaviour (including setting up supervised & unsupervised learning models, data cleaning, data analytics, feature creation, model selection, performance metrics, and visualisations).
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Solid grounding in the principles and application of MLOps (e.g., Snowpark, MLFlow, Github) with experience in productionising and managing models.
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A successful track record of leading and developing high performing data insight teams (including managing, coaching, recruiting, and developing talent).
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Strong skills in managing, influencing, and communicating with stakeholders at all levels (including senior leadership). This includes:
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Demonstrated credibility in partnering and collaborating cross-functionally, to implement data strategy in large, complex, matrixed organisations.
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A proven track record of leading and influencing teams in dynamic, changing environments.
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The ability to build efficient and scalable organisational structures, processes, and methodologies for data teams.
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The ability to clearly and simply convey expertise and insight, engaging and empowering others to build their knowledge.
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An outward-looking and strategic approach, capable of bringing external trends and developments into the organisation to drive innovation and growth.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.
If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you.
What will I gain?
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.


