Relationship Lead

Relationship Lead (North East)
Contract type: 12-month fixed term contract
Full time: 34.5 hours – we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours.
Salary range: £33,500 - £36,500. Please note that we typically offer at the start of the range, unless candidates demonstrate exceptional skills and experience. 
Location: Home-based, with approx. 1 day of travel per week around Newcastle and the surrounding areas, plus occasional travel elsewhere in the UK. Candidates must be based in Newcastle or the surrounding areas and be able to travel regularly to support events and attend meetings.

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 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 role you’ll support delivery of our Professional Engagement plan so Macmillan Professionals are supported to ensure they have the right tools, skills, support and resources to deliver high-quality personalised care experiences for people living with cancer.

You will support, lead and deliver defined parts of the Professional Engagement plan, including events, partner engagement activities, conferences and delivery of professional resources and webinars.  

Having an oversight of a large group of professionals, it will be important to prioritise and plan your workload, working to targets and objectives to deliver agreed outcomes.

You will use your data management, analysis, and reporting skills to help demonstrate the impact of our professional engagement work and team.

Relationship building and management is key to this role. You will support Macmillan Professionals with all of their needs, while also developing new relationships with the wider workforce and work collaboratively with the senior leadership team, your other team colleagues, external partners, and other key stakeholders, to deliver local priorities and ultimately deliver the absolute best person-centred care for people living with cancer.

About you

We recognise that relationship-building, planning and analytical skills can be gained in many different environments. You may have developed these skills through paid employment, volunteering, community leadership, education, or other life experiences.

If you can demonstrate most of the skills below, we'd encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn't match every aspect of the role.

• Ability to build trusted relationships with a range of people and work collaboratively towards shared goals.
• Ability to gather, interpret and present information or data to demonstrate outcomes, impact or progress.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
• Ability to organise and prioritise multiple tasks while delivering to agreed deadlines.
• Confidence using digital tools and systems to manage information, communicate effectively and support delivery of work (e.g. Microsoft Office, Excel and CRM systems).

Please note: Although this role is home-based, regular travel is required to support events and attend team meetings in the geographical area allocated. Therefore, candidates must be based in Newcastle or the surrounding areas.

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: 23:59 on Sunday 22nd November
Interview dates: First stage interviews will take place virtually via MS Teams on the week commencing 30th November (exact date 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 at 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.