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LEGACY PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER (LONDON AND SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND)

Salary: £35,000 - £39,000 per annum

Department: Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement

Reports to: Legacy Partnerships Team Leader

Location: Home-based/Field based covering London and South-East England. Candidates need to be based in this region or within 20 miles of patch due to business need. This region will cover as far north as Luton, as far east as Canterbury, as far south as Brighton and as far west as Newbury. Please note that candidates are required to have a valid driving license and will be expected to travel throughout this region as and when required.

Hours: 35 hours per week (we are open to Compressed Hours)

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: Sunday 13 July 2025, 23:55

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Legacy Partnership Manager. This is a unique opportunity to develop, manage and grow Cancer Research UK's legacy relationships with high value solicitor partners. Our team works with around 800 offices across the UK, empowering legal professionals to speak about legacy giving and our life saving research.

This a flexible home-based role, which will require travelling around your division meeting with legal professionals.

What will I be doing?

• Identifying, developing, and managing relationships with solicitors and will writing firms.

• Being responsible for delivering a seamless end to end supporter journey for the professional audience, through outstanding relationship management

• Using data to make value insights about our partners performance, making recommendations for improvement and exploring opportunities for building and deepening partnerships

• Being responsible for delivering regional activity for Legal Professionals, including regular partnership review meetings and CPD events

• Supporting the wider team in the development of the Legacy Professional Partnership strategy.

What skills will I need?

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills, with the ability to quickly get buy in and work collaboratively

• An ability to understand and translate data, and utilise it to make strategic decisions

• Proven ability to work well under pressure

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills, creating connections to make great things happen

• Proven ability to identify and build on new opportunities

• A flexible approach, to comfortably manage ambiguity and changing environments/contexts.

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.

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 complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.

INDIVIDUAL GIVING MARKETING SENIOR EXECUTIVE

Salary: £32,000 - £35,000 per annum

Reports to: Marketing Manager - Individual Giving

Department: Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement

Location: Stratford, London w/ high-flex (1 - 2 days per week in the office)

Employment type: Permanent

Working hours: 35 hours per week (we are open to Compressed Hours)

Closing date: Sunday 13 July 2025, 23:55

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

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 we're looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as an Individual Giving Marketing Senior Executive. We need you to support the development of supporter acquisition and retention campaigns across the Individual Giving (IG) marketing function to achieve the relevant product objective for Fundraising & Marketing. You'll support the Individual Giving Marketing Manager to deliver the marketing plan, meeting and exceeding KPIs, to time and budget. You'll be part of a team implementing our strategy to grow our regular giving audience by delivering an exciting portfolio of multi-channel and supporter-centric campaigns.

What will I be doing?

• Leading on the delivery of campaign set up, development and launch across multiple channels (including ALT digital channels, telemarketing, direct mail, email, social)

• Translating cross-channel integrated briefs into production specific briefs, leading on the delivery of data and digital campaign set-up requirements in collaboration with a number of internal teams

• Taking responsibility for the content and creative production process, working with internal and external stakeholders to develop compelling creative across a range of channels

• Leading on in-campaign reporting and post-campaign analysis, sharing recommendations for optimisation and to improve the effectiveness of future campaigns

• Working with UX experts to devise pre-launch test and learn initiatives, using results to recommend areas for optimisation

• With Marketing Executive support, leading on all aspects of campaign delivery including direct mail production and new supporter letter fulfilment

• Keeping the marketing activity plan up to date and ensuring upcoming campaigns and activity are being briefed in to the correct teams in advance taking into account team SLAs

• Being a marketing expert for the relevant product function, mentoring and upskilling 1 Marketing Executive.

What skills are you looking for?

• Relevant experience of delivering multi-channel campaigns, from planning through to execution and analysis, that meet campaign KPIs

• Good understanding of end-to-end supporter journeys and the role of different channels in fully integrated campaigns

• Experience of managing and motivating agencies to drive maximum value from relationships

• Strong time management skills

• Commercially aware with experience of budget management

• Data-driven with a good understanding of UX principles and experience of interpreting results and recommending opportunities for optimisation

• Experience of developing highly effective campaign assets for use across channels

• Experience of building positive working relationships and working effectively as part of a team

• Experience of managing own workload, meeting deadlines and effectively handling changing priorities

• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Excel and PowerPoint.

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We review pay annually and aim to recognise individual performance and achievements.

We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.

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 complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.

Project Manager (Cancer Grand Challenges)

£46,000 - £54,000 plus

Reports to: Programme Manager, Cancer Grand Challenges

Directorate: Research & Innovation

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 14 July 2025 23:55

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. Please let us know if there is anything about the recruitment process that you would like to discuss, in particular if there are any changes or adjustments that would make it easier for you to apply. Please contact or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Recruitment process: 2 stage interview process

Interview date: W/C 28 July first stage, 2nd stage W/C 4 August 2025

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

Cancer Grand Challenges are looking for a dynamic, results driven Project Manager to manage the end-to-end delivery of a range of medium to large change projects or programmes associated with improving the delivery of the initiative.

In this exciting new role, you will be the driving force for existing and new projects, leading on core elements of the initiative in relation to governance, strategy development and finance.

About Cancer Grand Challenges

Cancer Grand Challenges is a global funding initiative founded in 2020 by the two largest funders of cancer research in the world: Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US ().

Our unique partnership has created an exciting opportunity to bring together the collective insight and expertise of CRUK and NCI and will enable the initiative to scale significantly over the coming years. Cancer Research UK will deliver the initiative on behalf of the partners.

For Cancer Grand Challenges, our mission is to empower the global cancer research community to come together, think differently and solve cancer's toughest challenges, to transform outcomes for people affected by cancer.

In March 2025 we launched seven new challenges developed in consultation with the global research community that span discovery, clinical and population sciences. In March 2026 we will announce our latest global teams, each of whom will be provided with research funding at scale (£20m), to enable imaginative thinking and allow the best scientists to collaborate, irrespective of geographical boundaries, to solve cancer's most complex challenges.

In this pivotal role, you'll lead the project management of CGC's next phase, helping to shape its future direction.

If you have experience managing projects in change or transformation environments-and thrive in roles that span a wide range of focus areas and teams-this is a fantastic opportunity to apply your skills and make a meaningful impact.

What will I be doing?

• To be fully accountable for the delivery of a range of complex projects, collaborating across teams and ensuring appropriate governance with stakeholders.

• Develop clear plans, including clear deliverables, milestones, dependencies, owners, risks, issues, and mitigations and then monitor project progress and proactively adjust plans as necessary to ensure project goals are met and projects are executed in accordance with best practices and standards.

• Identify and plan resource needs, governance, and structure to support delivery.

• In partnership with the Programme Manager, provide secretariat support to the various Cancer Grand Challenges governance forums including internal strategic groups.

• Coordinate and draft papers and reports for Cancer Grand Challenges leadership and other governance groups.

• Lead on development, delivery and reporting against the Cancer Grand Challenges annual operational plan, business plan and risk register.

• Own the management of contracts between CRUK and NCI which provide the framework for the CGC initiative.

• Work closely with Cancer Grand Challenges leadership and colleagues across CRUK (e.g. Legal, Finance and Strategic Partnerships) to support all contractual negotiations with future funding partners.

What are you looking for?

• An experienced project leader (demonstrated through experience or APM, Prince 2, Agile qualification) with a proven track record of leading, collaborating on and delivering complex, multi-stakeholder projects successfully on time and within budget across a complex organisation.

• Experience or familiarity with transformation programmes and projects and associated tools.

• Experience in business process design and implementation.

• Demonstrable evidence of interpreting & manipulating data clearly and accurately with the ability to quickly extract & articulate key points.

• Experience facilitating project or portfolio boards and steering groups at a senior management level.

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and manage cross-functional teams.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with proven evidenced ability to form strong, positive collaborative relationships at all levels of seniority.

• Experience in driving continuous improvement and developing forward looking plans and priorities for the team and adapting priorities as necessary whilst taking a pragmatic approach where appropriate.

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced environment.

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.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our .

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 complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.

For more information on this career opportunity please or contact us at .

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FACE TO FACE DELIVERY MANAGER - OUTSOURCED PARTNERS

Salary: £34,000 - £39,000 per annum

Reports to: Senior Face to Face Manager

Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week (compressed hours or 4 day weeks would be considered)

Location: Stratford, London w/ high-flex (1 - 2 days per week in the office). We are open to further discussion around flexible working for the successful candidate.

Closing date: Wednesday 9 July 2025, 23:55*

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment.

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

Cancer Research UK are looking for a dynamic, pragmatic and proactive individual to join us as Face to Face Delivery Manager for our outsourced partners.

As well as having our own inhouse Face to Face Fundraising team, we work with circa 4 agencies who provide us with the resource to engage and inspire the public to sign up to monthly donations supporting CRUK. To date, we have generated over £120m from face-to-face fundraising third-party individual giving activity, having a huge impact for our life saving research.

As a Face-to-Face Fundraising Manager, you'll be the driving force behind delivering our ambitious fundraising targets in this area, maximising opportunities, working with a range of agencies, stakeholders and your team to deliver our outsourced face to face acquisition programme in the UK, ensuring its success day to day.

You don't need to have worked specifically in the Face-to-Face Fundraising space previously, but you will need to come with experience of managing multiple agency relationships as well as strong stakeholder management skills.

In return you will have the chance to work within a varied role where you can use your skills and experience to help us bring about a world where everybody can lead longer, better lives, free from the fear of cancer.

What will I be doing?

• Delivering a face to face fundraising acquisition programme via outsourced partners, in line with agreed strategy and targets.

• Driving the success of the face to face fundraising acquisition programme, ensuring key performance indicators are met, pro-actively looking for opportunities to improve performance, working collaboratively and alongside our outsourced partners.

• Ensuring appropriate training and compliance monitoring of face to face outsourced partner activity is in place, with timely and appropriate remedial action being taken where needed to ensure Cancer Research UK and industry standards are upheld and an excellent supporter experience is offered.

• Establishing, developing and maintaining excellent relationships with our suppliers and partners, proactively looking for opportunities to optimise our partnership with outsourced partners, for the benefit of the organisation.

• Leading on the troubleshooting of day to day campaign delivery challenges, acting swiftly to implement workable solutions and ways forward, working closely with the F2F Manager - Outsourced Partners, Individual Giving Operations team, and the relevant stakeholders.

• Ensuring all operational aspects of campaigns from planning through to execution and analysis are in place and as efficient as possible, putting processes in place to ensure the effective management of campaigns, working with the Individual Giving Operations team and other internal and external stakeholders to achieve this.

• Onboarding new suppliers as required, and managing existing relationships through contracts, performance, monitoring compliance and service level agreements, working closely with the Face to Face Manager - Outsourced Partners.

What are you looking for?

• Relevant experience of managing agency relationships, contract management, managing performance, meeting or exceeding key performance indicators ( Face to Face agencies would be beneficial but isn't essential).

• Experience of working in a heavily regulated environment and ability to get up to speed with current fundraising regulation.

• Relevant experience of planning, delivery and analysis of end to end project activity or campaigns (fundraising or face to face would be beneficial).

• Flexible approach, with an ability to work successfully in a dynamic operating environment.

• Proactive approach to problem solving with ability to manage several projects at any one time.

• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills - both internal and external stakeholders, and suppliers.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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.

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.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our .

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 complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.

For more information on this career opportunity please or contact us at .

For more updates on our work and careers, follow us on: , , , and .

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Senior Proposition Manager( Innovation)

Known Internally as Senior Innovation Manager

£60,000 - £67,000 plus

Reports to: Director of Innovation

Directorate: 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)

Closing date: 9 July 2025 23:55

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. Please let us know if there is anything about the recruitment process that you would like to discuss, in particular if there are any changes or adjustments that would make it easier for you to apply. Please contact or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

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.

Ranked 12th Best Employer in the UK by the Financial Times, Cancer Research UK is looking for a standout leader to join our new Innovation team as Senior Proposition Manager (Innovation) - Known externally as Senior Innovation Manager. Ready to make a difference?

This exciting new position will see you collaborate with the Director of Innovation to establish a new team within the Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement directorate, shape strategy and build a pipeline of innovative projects. Your goal will be to dig deep into understanding audience needs and use this to drive long-term income growth from mass audiences. Additionally, with your strong skills in stakeholder management you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners to deliver successful projects. You'll do all this while been surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are.

What will I be doing?

• Lead the development and delivery of new propositions, offerings and initiatives, from idea generation to launch.

• Partner with insights and service design teams to conduct market research and analysis to identify emerging trends, audience behaviours, and fundraising opportunities.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in MFE and PIC plus stakeholders across the business to design and test innovation concepts.

• Develop and implement experimentation frameworks, including rapid prototyping and A/B testing, to validate ideas.

• Build strong relationships with external partners, including agencies and industry experts, to bring fresh perspectives and capabilities to fundraising innovation.

• Secure internal buy-in for new ideas by preparing compelling business cases and presentations for senior stakeholders.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience in innovation, delivering tangible, commercial results with a hands on approach

• Experience working with insights teams

• Ability to analyse data and iterate based on insights

• Strong ability to generate, evaluate, and execute new ideas, using data and user insights.

• Experience with design thinking, agile methodologies, or lean innovation processes.

• Good stakeholder management skills, and the ability to navigate and influence across complex matrix-management structures. 

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and prioritise time effectively.

• Experience of design thinking or human-centred design

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.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our .

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 complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.

For more information on this career opportunity please or contact us at .

For more updates on our work and careers, follow us on: , , , and .