Senior Fundraising Events Manager (Virtual and DIY)

Senior Fundraising Events Manager (Virtual and DIY)
Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Full time (34.5 hours)
Location – Hybrid split between home and our London Office
£42,800 - £47,800 per annum

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.

About the role
You will manage a team of 3 fundraising professionals to plan and deliver our portfolio of virtual and DIY fundraising events, including our Facebook Challenges and growing Swim It campaign, with the objective of raising over £6m for people living with cancer. You will be responsible for the campaign strategy and delivery, supporting the team on recruitment through paid and organic marketing and delivering sector-leading stewardship, acting as the strategic lead for both internal and external relationships to enable this delivery. 

This role does require weekend work (although not at your desk) as you’ll be out and about cheering on our participants. You will be compensated for your weekend work with days in lieu.

 Please note, the internal job title for this role is Senior Challenge Events Programme Manager.

About you

• Leadership and Management: Experience of successfully motivating others to deliver projects – this could be as a project manager or lead, matrix manager or line manager. And experience of working collaboratively to improve or maintain a positive, inclusive team culture.
• Project management: Responsible for your teams planning, marketing, delivery and optimisations of your fundraising product portfolio.
• Relationship Management: An ability to build positive relationships with colleagues and external partners, which enable productive collaboration on projects
• Marketing and Stewardship Skills: Experience of delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns or management of complex projects, in line with agreed budgets and schedules and of delivering mass-scale stewardship campaigns.
• Results-focus: Experience of using data or insight to understand performance, make decisions and inform plans
• Analytical/Solution-focussed: A proactive approach to resolving project blockers, conflict or underperformance
• Budget Management: Experience of financial reporting, managing campaign expenditure and income across products.
• Market Knowledge: Understanding of the virtual and DIY fundraising events market.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options
• 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: Wednesday 30th July 2025

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.