Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Lead

Job Title: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Leads x 2 roles
Contract Type: Permanent 
Full time (34.5 hours) - we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location – Hybrid split between home and our London office ( 1-2 days in the office weekly)
Salary Range - £58,500 - £64,500

Help shape a more inclusive future at Macmillan Cancer Support. 

At Macmillan, we believe that equality, diversity and inclusion are essential to delivering our mission of supporting people living with cancer. We’re looking for passionate and experienced leaders to drive our inclusion strategy and embed inclusive practices across every part of our organisation. 

This is a strategic and hands-on role where you’ll work across teams to ensure our policies, culture and ways of working reflect our commitment to inclusion — internally for our workforce and externally in how we support communities. 

💡 What you’ll do: 

• Lead the development and delivery of Macmillan’s inclusion strategy. 

• Partner with senior leaders and wider people teams (such as Learning and Development, Talent Acquisition and People & Culture) to embed inclusive practices across all functions. 

• Design and deliver impactful workshops and learning sessions. 

• Support inclusive recruitment and talent development. 

• Oversee and grow our colleague networks. 

• Use data and insight to measure progress and drive meaningful change. 

• Champion inclusive systems and processes across the organisation. 

• Work with external stakeholders to embedded EDI external (volunteering, community, participation, fundraising) 

• Provide an evidence-based by using data to effectively guide and measure outcomes  

• Build internal capability through training toolkits and campaigns 

💚 What you’ll bring: 

• Extensive experience leading inclusion strategies, ideally in the charity sector (though not essential). 

• Deep knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusion legislation and best practice across the UK. 

• Strong facilitation, coaching and stakeholder engagement skills. 

• Skilled in analysing data, adopting evidence--based/data driven approach and confident working with people/EDI data to benchmark, monitor and evaluate 

• Experience working across complex matrix organisations with stakeholder's at all levels including volunteers  

• Experience in bringing a unified EDI approach and working in an organisation where EDI is embedded externally in volunteering, community, participation, research and bringing this into the internal workforce to build one strategy. 

Relevant qualifications in people development or learning and development are desirable, as is experience working in complex organisations and leading high-performing teams. 

Ready to make a meaningful impact? Apply now and help us build a more inclusive future for everyone affected by cancer. 💚 

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: Wed 3rd September at 23:59
Provisional first interview dates: Fri Sept 12th and Mon Sept 15th September 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 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.