Legacy Promotions Officer

Legacy Promotions Officer

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  • Salary From:
    £35,200
  • Salary To:
    £39,200
  • Region:
    UK Wide
  • Location:
    Dual Glasgow/Home, Dual London/Home, Dual Shipley/Home
  • Advertised Job Category:
    Engagement
  • Department:
    Legacy and In Memory Fundraising
  • Job type:
    Permanent
  • Closing Date:
    21 July 2025

Legacy Promotions Officer   

Hours: Full time (34.5 hours) - we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours  

Permanent 

Hybrid Split between home and our London Office / Shipley Office / Glasgow office

Salary range: £35,200 - £39,200 


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 new 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: 

Do you want to be part of one of the most exciting and high performing teams in the sector, helping to bring in more than a third of Macmillan’s income, funding vital support for people living with cancer? 

We're looking for a Legacy Promotions Officer to join our team to deliver high value, multi-channel legacy marketing campaigns, with a particular focus on acquiring new legacy supporters. Working collaboratively with others, this person plays a key role in building awareness and generating leads for our Free Wills Service, inspiring and engaging supporters, to secure future income from Gifts in Wills. 

You’ll take the lead on planning, delivering and evaluating campaigns, working closely with our partners and suppliers. Your work will be instrumental in driving future legacy income for Macmillan, ensuring we can continue to provide support for people living with cancer long into the future. The role is a great opportunity to build on your marketing skills in a large charity context.   

A typical week in this role might include:   

Meeting with our external media agency to discuss updates on status, optimisations and plans for campaigns. 

Designing engaging creatives and copy for legacy campaigns, both independently and in collaboration with our design agency. 

Contributing at regular team meetings with Acquisition team and wider Legacy and In-Memory Fundraising team. 

Cross-team working with colleagues across Macmillan. 

Monitoring campaign performance and flagging any issues with relevant stakeholders. 

Reviewing results, reporting and sharing learnings internally and identifying optimisations where appropriate. 

Managing supplier invoices, raising purchase orders and logging to ensure in line with budget 

Attending weekly catch ups with your line manager to discuss any project issues, blockers and to keep them updated on progress. 

About you:  

The ideal candidate will have... 

Marketing skills: A solid foundation of marketing or project management skills, developed in a professional environment 

Results-focus: Experience monitoring the performance or progress of a project against targets 

Analytical/Solution-focused: A proactive approach to identifying project blockers or underperformance and a collaborative approach to finding solutions 

Time management: Experience delivering work to set schedules and budgets 

Communication: An ability to communicate clearly with a range of different people including supporters, via email, telephone and in person 

Relationship management: An ability to build positive relationships with colleagues and suppliers, which enable productive collaboration on projects.

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: July 21st 2025
First interview dates: TBC

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. 

If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at TATeam@macmillan.org.uk.


 
 
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Benefits

Enhanced Holiday Entitlement
High Street Discounts
Discounted Gym Membership
Cycle to Work Scheme
Industry leading Family Leave support
Flexible Working Hours
Home, Office & Hybrid Working Offer
Enhanced Long Service Awards
One day a year paid voluntary/community work
Learning and Development Offer
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