Relationship Fundraising Team Manager

Relationship Fundraising Team Manager 
Contract Type Permanent 
Full time (34.5 hours) we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Mobile worker (covering North East England, Yorkshire and Cumbria) 
Salary Range £42,800 - £47,800 plus car allowance (subject to terms)  

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.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we launch our new five-year strategy and work towards delivering our vision to do whatever it takes to get every person the best support today and spark a revolution in cancer care for the future.

About the role

As a Relationship Fundraising Team Manager at Macmillan, you’ll step into a rewarding leadership role where your impact is immediate and meaningful. You’ll lead a team of passionate and experienced Fundraising Relationship Managers & Officers who are deeply committed to making a difference for people living with cancer while delivering income targets and growing long term supporter value. 

A unique and exciting aspect of this role is your involvement in the High Value Events Leadership Team, where you’ll play a key role in planning and shaping one of Macmillan’s flagship events - York Race Day. This £500k, two-day event is the largest charitable race day in the UK, having raised over £10 million to date. Your leadership will help ensure its continued success and innovation, offering an exceptional opportunity to be part of something truly special.

This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on team leadership and income delivery, giving you the chance to shape fundraising delivery across the North East, Yorkshire, and Cumbria and directly contributing to the wider development of the Relationship Fundraising Strategy. 

At its heart, this role exists to help ensure that everyone living with cancer gets the support they need. Every supporter relationship your team nurtures, every event delivered, and every pound raised contributes directly to helping people affected by cancer live as fully as they can. Your leadership will turn generosity into impact, making a real difference when it matters most.

About you

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

Proven Leadership and People Management Experience - providing regular coaching, performance management and development opportunities. 
Experienced in driving income delivery and achieving Key Performance Indicators  -  leading, supporting and motivating your team to maximise results

Experienced in strategic planning - ability to to identify opportunities for growth, collaboration and innovation in fundraising.
 
Proven stakeholder management experience - with the ability to communicate, influence and negotiate at all levels. 

This role is home-based with mobile working as you can expect to work across the region to meet with your team and supporter’s face to face approximately 1 to 2 days a month. As such, you must have a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle or the ability to travel frequently across the region. 

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

Please note the following key recruitment dates

Application deadline: Sunday 27th April at 23:59pm 
First interview dates: Tuesday 6th May 
Second Interview dates: Monday 12th May 

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.