Marketing Executive - 5 month FTC

Job title: Marketing Executive (Fundraising) 
FTC - - 5 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, typically one day per week but we are open to a conversation about this 

Salary range:

£35,200 - £39,200

Do you have experience working in marketing or project management? Do you want to continue to grow as a marketing professional, working on large-scale, sector-leading fundraising campaigns? Do you want to work in an inclusive and collaborative team, where you can focus on wellbeing and development? If so, this role could be for you. 

About the role 

We're looking for a Marketing Executive to join our fundraising marketing team to deliver sector-leading fundraising campaigns. Working collaboratively with fundraising marketing leadership, this person plays a key role in the delivery of marketing campaigns across a range of channels and products. Your work will be instrumental in raising money to ensure we can provide vital physical, emotional and financial support for people living with cancer. 

As a team, we are responsible for the marketing and project management of several large-scale fundraising campaigns, including Macmillan’s Coffee Morning, Brave the Shave, Longest Day Golf Challenge, Go Sober and the Macmillan Lottery. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering a wide variety of campaigns, to ensure the team achieves its ambitious fundraising objectives. The role is a great opportunity to build on your existing marketing skills in a large charity context.  

A typical week in this role might include:  

• Delivering key campaign actions to agreed schedules. This could include writing a data, artwork or media briefs, circulating campaign materials for approval, completing data or artwork checks
• Leading a weekly call with an external agency partner, to agree key actions and keep a project on track
• Reviewing campaign performance, reporting internally and identifying optimisations, where appropriate
• Attending weekly catch ups with your project manager to discuss any campaign issues, blockers and to keep them updated on progress
• Preparing for and attending monthly development meeting with your manager

About you 

We are looking for someone who has a foundation in the skills outlined in the section of the role profile labelled ‘To do this role, you will have...’, so please make sure you clearly demonstrate these in your application.  

Unless specified, this does not have to be experience in a charity context – we are just looking for someone with this experience and a willingness to learn about our charity context and deliver work in line with Macmillan’s values. If you meet the criteria in the role profile we would love to hear from you! 

• Marketing skills: A solid foundation of marketing or project management skills, developed in a professional setting
• 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, via email, telephone and in person
• Relationship management: An ability to build positive relationships with colleagues and external partners, which enable productive collaboration on projects

Recruitment process 

The application closing date is March 24th at 11:59pm, with virtual interviews planned to take place the week commencing 31st March 2025

The process following shortlisting will be:

• Task
• 60 minute interview

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience. 

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.