Relationship Fundraising Territory Lead

Relationship Fundraising Territory Lead 
Contract Type Permanent 
Full time (34.5 hours) we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Home based -  covering Scotland, Northern Ireland, Cumbria, North East England and Yorkshire 
Salary Range - £54,000 - £58,000 

About us
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to be their best self to work.

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

In this rewarding leadership role, you will lead, inspire, and guide large fundraising teams to achieve their goals and targets.  While doing so, you will also deliver your own key projects, drive strategy and high performance to achieve our ambitious fundraising objectives, key performance indicators and income targets.

You will represent Macmillan across the territory and lead your team, who provide personalised, high-quality stewardship to supporters and volunteers which you will contribute to, building strong key relationships to grow fundraising income, focussing on the highest value opportunities while promoting Macmillan’s vital support and services. 

Motivated by the many supporter stories you will hear and skilled in translating strategy using data and insight, you will deliver inspiring plans and presentations using your influencing and negotiation expertise, to demonstrate Macmillan’s compelling case for support and play a vital role in delivering income and impact for people living with cancer. 

About you:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Demonstrable leadership experience, skilled in leading teams through collaboration and empowerment.  
• Proven ability to communicate, influence and negotiate at all levels with a variety of internal and external audiences. 
• Experienced in planning and prioritisation, strategy formation and implementation, data analysis and translating insights into action. 
• Results-driven leader, experienced in helping teams achieve both financial and non-financial objectives and targets. 
• Experience in leading a team to deliver against annual income targets of £5million plus. 
• Requirement to travel to events and meetings with teams and with supporters during and outside standard office hours.
• Home based within the region this role covers (or close to the borders) is desirable 

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: Sunday 16th February at 23:59pm
First interview dates: Monday 24th February 
Second stage interview dates: Tuesday 4th March 

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 Talent Acquisition Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments. 

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies. 

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.