Community Volunteering Partner

Community Volunteering Partner
Contract type: Fixed term contract ending in February 2028 (approx. 16 months)
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Mobile Worker – regular travel expected across the UK to meet with partners, typically once every couple of weeks.
Salary range: £44,500 - £48,500 plus car allowance

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 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

As a Community Volunteering Partner, you’ll help partners involve volunteers well and strengthen community-based support.

You’ll provide expert advice on volunteer involvement and build trusted relationships with statutory, community and voluntary sector partners. You’ll support grant-funded projects where volunteers are central to service delivery, providing support throughout the grant lifecycle. This includes monitoring progress, facilitating review meetings, supporting capacity building, and ensuring projects achieve meaningful outcomes for people affected by cancer.

You'll also contribute to the development of resources, guidance and learning opportunities that strengthen volunteer involvement across Macmillan's partner network, while sharing insight on emerging trends, good practice and challenges within the volunteering sector.

This is a brilliant opportunity to use your volunteering expertise to grow high-quality, inclusive volunteering with partners across the UK. 

About you

We're looking for someone who combines strong relationship management skills with expertise in volunteering and a passion for improving support for people living with cancer. You’ll bring:

• Experience of volunteering good practice, including legal, compliance, and inclusion considerations
• Experience working with community, charitable, health or social care organisations (desirable)
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust with a wide range of internal and external partners
• Experience managing projects and delivering plans against agreed objectives and budgets
• Experience using data, reporting and insight to measure impact and inform decision-making
• Excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively across teams
• Commitment to co-design and community-centred approaches, recognising the value of lived experience in shaping effective volunteering
• Ability to travel across the UK, including occasional overnight stays

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 Tuesday 15th September
1st stage interview dates: Online interviews will take place on w/c 28th September
2nd stage interview dates: Online interviews will take place on w/c 12th October

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 TATeam@macmillan.org.uk 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.