Events Officer - 12 month FTC

Events Officer
Fixed Term Contract (12 months) 
Full time (34.5 hours) - we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Hybrid - Split between home and our London Office  with some additional travel required
Salary Range - £32500 - £35500

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 

We’re looking for a passionate and organised Events Officer to help deliver Macmillan’s portfolio of internal and external events, creating powerful, impactful moments that drive engagement and connection. 

This role sits within the High Value and Engagement Events team, whose portfolio spans events for key Macmillan audiences - including healthcare professionals, colleagues, volunteers, philanthropists, and policy makers - to inspire and deepen their connection to our cause. 

Your key responsibilities will include 

• Planning, supporting, and delivering a wide range of high-quality events, with a particular focus on the Macmillan Professionals Conference and Professionals Excellence Awards.
• Building and managing strong relationships with a broad network of internal and external stakeholders.
• Developing content and communications that are meaningful, inclusive, and aligned with Macmillan’s strategic goals.
• Accurately maintaining event budgets and databases.
• Managing systems and processes to ensure robust quality assurance.
• Evaluating and reporting on event performance, with recommendations for future activity.
• Playing a key role in advising and supporting colleagues across the organisation through event clinics and expert guidance. 

About you 

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:  

• Demonstrable experience working on events.
• Excellent project management skills and attention to detail. 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to facilitate and build relationships with stakeholders and teams at all levels. 
• Excellent time management and ability to prioritise. 
• Good knowledge and experience of databases and ability to analyse and prepare data.   
• Understanding of health, safety, data protection and legal requirements for event participants. 

This role will involve occasional travel across the UK and some evening or weekend working to support event delivery. 

• 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: August 18th at 23:59
First interview dates: W/C August 18th

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.