Senior Fellow - Systems Change and Investment

Senior Fellow – Systems Change & Investment
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (6 months)
Part time: 2-4 days a month, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours and can be flexible based on availability
Location: Hybrid between home and our London Office
Salary Range: £90,000 - £120,000 (pro rata)

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

We are looking for a highly experienced senior leader with deep subject matter expertise to join us as a Senior Fellow – Systems Change & Investment. This is a unique and high-impact opportunity to provide strategic advice and thought leadership to help us shape the future of cancer care.

As Senior Fellow, you will provide expert insight and challenge to Macmillan’s leadership as we accelerate our work and scale our ambitions in systems transformation. You’ll advise our technical experts, Executive Leadership Team and Trustees, shape our strategic direction, and represent Macmillan externally with credibility and influence.

This flexible, part-time role is designed for someone who thrives in strategic environments, has extensive experience advising executive teams, and is ready to help us transform cancer care through influence, insight, and collaboration.

Key responsibilities:

• Act as a strategic adviser to Macmillan’s leadership on systems transformation
• Provide expert insight into the external landscape, advising on our overall approach and systems change models
• Collaborate across Macmillan to identify how we can build capabilities, partnerships, and new ways of working that enable systemic change
• Develop thought leadership content to elevate Macmillan’s external profile in healthcare and public service transformation
• Represent Macmillan externally with credibility and influence across sectors, leveraging networks and partnerships to drive change
  
  

About you

We’re looking for a highly experienced senior leader who brings:

• A proven track record in strategic leadership in one or more of the following areas: social investment, impact investment, place-based systems change and/or adoption of innovation in health and care services (please note, if you do not have this experience, we will unfortunately not be able to consider you for this role)
• Extensive experience advising executive leadership teams (please note, if you do not have this experience, we will unfortunately not be able to consider you for this role)
• Strong networks and credibility among systems leaders and influencers (please note, if you do not have this experience, we will unfortunately not be able to consider you for this role)
• Deep understanding of the UK public service and healthcare landscape
• Authoritative communication and influencing skills
• Strong alignment with Macmillan’s mission, strategy, and values

This is a part-time, flexible opportunity for someone who is already operating at a senior level and wants to make a meaningful impact through strategic advisory work.

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: Monday 13th October
Interview date: Virtual interviews will be held on the weeks commencing 20th October and 27th October (exact 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 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.