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Volunteering Services Delivery Lead
Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Full time 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Home-based
£28,000 - £31,000

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 exceptional volunteer management skills and the passion to help us deliver impactful emotional and practical support services for people living with cancer?  

It’s an exciting time to join Macmillan Cancer Support as we've recently launched our new five-year strategy and work towards delivering our vision to do whatever it takes to get every person the best support today and spark a revolution in cancer care for the future.

This is a pivotal role in which you will have the opportunity to support the delivery of volunteering roles in our health and social care services so that a wider range of people can get involved in supporting people affected by cancer. 

About you
You’ll support the growth of volunteering in health and social care services by delivering volunteer involving opportunities and enabling their sustainability. A key component of the role will be to work collaboratively with your peers to enable a positive volunteer experience and delivery of effective emotional support interventions to people living with cancer. 

It’s particularly important that you demonstrate sound knowledge of policies and procedures relevant to this role and experience of planning. A rounded understanding of volunteering in its widest sense is useful in addition. Most important of all though, your successful track record in supporting a range of volunteer led services working with a vulnerable client group within a health and care setting is needed to achieve our goals.

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 29th October 2025
Interview dates: early November 2026

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.

Senior Solicitor / Lawyer
Fixed-Term Contract – 9 Months
Full-time (34.5 hours per week) – we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Split between home and our London Office: minimum office attendance once a fortnight
Salary: £72,000–£78,000 per annum

Make a meaningful impact with Macmillan
At Macmillan, we're here to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer – and we’re not standing still. We’re evolving, innovating, and transforming how we deliver support across the UK.

Join our Legal team as a Senior Solicitor/Lawyer and be at the heart of shaping the future of how we work with partners, invest in communities, and fund transformative projects across the NHS and beyond.

About the role
In this high-impact role, you’ll use your extensive legal expertise to support our new organisational strategy. You’ll be instrumental in helping us design and implement:

• Grant-making frameworks and partnership agreements

• Innovative social investment models for the NHS

• Contracts with a range of external stakeholders

You’ll play a key role in enabling Macmillan’s strategic goals through robust legal advice, high-quality drafting, and pragmatic problem-solving. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your commercial legal skills in a purpose-driven context – helping us reach and support more people affected by cancer.

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

• Qualification as a Solicitor or Barrister in England & Wales
• Experience in contract and commercial law
  A track record of drafting grant-making agreements and/or social investment deals would be hugely advantageous
• Ideally, working knowledge of charity law and experience in-house or with public/voluntary sector bodies (e.g. charities, NHS, statutory agencies)
• The ability to work independently and manage your own caseload, while contributing to a collaborative, values-driven team

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: Sunday 26th October 2025
First interview dates: early November 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.

Volunteering Support Partner
Fixed Term Contract (6 months)
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
Salary Range - £44,000 - £48,000

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
Our vision for volunteering is equally big. Shaped by volunteers, together we will do whatever it takes to create an enabled, scaled and diverse volunteering community, who have the best experience and deliver the best impact for Macmillan.

This exciting new role sits within our Volunteering Support team and you will provide the core business partnering and project management for volunteering developments, involvement and delivery across Macmillan. You will be responsible for implementing a quality framework consistently for volunteering business elements that ensure compliance, support innovation and assure continuous improvement.  

You will manage the Volunteer Involvement Framework to ensure the voice of volunteers is heard operationally and strategically across Macmillan and you will also provide expertise and support to teams responsible for innovating volunteer-led initiatives and ensure a consistent and high-quality approach.

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

• Working knowledge of volunteering best practice including legal, compliance and equality as well as emerging issues in all aspects of volunteering 
• Good project management skills, delivering plans to achieve objectives and targets set
• Experience of working collaboratively and establishing positive working relationships, including with volunteers, and offering strategic insight to the organisation 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to speak persuasively at all levels.

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: Sunday 26th October 2025
Interview dates: 3rd and 4th November 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.

Stewardship Manager for Mighty Hikes
12 months fixed term contract
Full time (34.5 hours)
Location – Hybrid between home and a Macmillan office (see what this looks like in the advert text)
£35,200 - £39,200 per annum

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.

Join the team behind Macmillan’s Mighty Hikes

Each year, Macmillan’s Mighty Hikes inspire thousands of people to take on marathon distance hikes across some of the UK’s most beautiful landscapes, raising over £70 million to support people living with cancer.

We’re looking for a creative and results-driven Stewardship Manager to deliver of our inspiring multi-channel supporter journey for the 2026 Mighty Hikes series.

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Stewardship Manager and working closely with the Events Officer, you’ll deliver an engaging, insight-led stewardship journey that supports and motivates Mighty Hikers before, during, and after their event.

In this role, your week might include:

• Creating inspiring and motivational email campaigns to help participants fundraise and train.
• Working with our registration platform provider – briefing development, using insight to optimise user’s journeys.
• Briefing creative agencies on content and assets that engage and inspire fundraising.
• Managing outbound calling campaigns with external agencies and tracking success.
• Analysing JustGiving data to report on fundraising performance and identify stewardship improvements.
• Line managing the Mighty Hikes Assistant, supporting their day-to-day activities and development.

This role includes weekend work, attending events to cheer on our participants (don’t worry – no desks involved!). You’ll receive time off in lieu, and while a full UK driving licence is preferred, a willingness to drive a van is a bonus.

Please note: All candidates will be subject to a criminal record check, paid for by Macmillan. Any existing enhancements must be declared.  The internal job title for this role is Challenge Events Programme Manager. 

About you:

We’re looking for someone with a passion for supporter engagement, strong project management skills, and a sharp eye for insight-driven optimisation.

You’ll need:

• Stewardship experience – delivering engaging, multi-channel campaigns with personalisation.
• Analytical mindset – confident using data to evaluate performance and drive improvements.
• Project management – able to juggle multiple deadlines and priorities effectively.
• Strong communicator – able to influence and collaborate across a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Relationship builder – positive, professional, and collaborative.
• Digital knowledge – familiarity with online registration platforms and digital journeys (desirable).

About hybrid working in this role

We have three offices; our Head Office in London and two workspaces based in Shipley and Glasgow. There are no fixed weekly office days for this role, and we support flexible, hybrid working arrangements. In terms of requirements for in-person attendance, the postholder will be expected to attend Challenge Events Away Days (quarterly), Mighty Hike team meetings (monthly) and reviews or planning meetings with key suppliers (these will be infrequent and arranged with as much notice as possible).

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options
• 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 is 23:59 on Monday 20 October 2025

Interviews will be held w/c 27 October 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 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.