Strategic Communities Manager

Strategic Communities Manager 
Permanent appointment
Full time (34.5 hours)
Mobile Worker (Expected to be able to travel to large areas across the UK, with a focus on our North territory which includes Northern Ireland, Scotland, North of England and the Midlands) 
Salary Range: £55,000 - £61,000 per annum plus car allowance

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

In this rewarding role, you'll get to lead and nurture a fantastic team of community managers, inspiring them to create meaningful connections and empower our communities. You’ll be building on our work to date but driving a significant shift in how we work to maximise the impact we have. Together, you will work to co-design solutions that spark positive change and improve equitable access to cancer care across health and care systems.

You will help Macmillan understand the unique needs of various communities affected by cancer, allowing us to make a real difference and enhance the impact we have.  This can be achieved by driving the creation, testing, and execution of strategies for community engagement and participation, building a best practice framework and maximising opportunities for community mobilisation.

By analysing insights, needs, and opportunities, you’ll shape and prioritize a plan that guides where and when our community managers focus their efforts, whilst allocating resources for the leadership, growth, and implementation of valuable lived experiences, communities and networks across Macmillan. Your work will ensure these initiatives align well with our broader community goals, enriching the connections and partnerships we foster beyond Macmillan.

About you

We're excited about this role and what it will achieve for people living with cancer. To give us the best chance of success, we are keen to speak to talent from a wide variety of backgrounds and who bring differing experiences and diverse views and perspectives, allowing us to challenge ourselves and each other. We are looking for people who have:

• Proven experience of line management, driving high performance across diverse and dispersed teams.
• Experience building strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships with people from all backgrounds.
• Experience working collaboratively with communities coordinating, shaping, and delivering Community focused initiatives.
• Experience of applying community focused initiatives to contribute to wider systemic change.
• Understanding of and experience of deploying different disciplines and approaches across the spectrum of community engagement and participation models.
• Knowledge and experience of developing and implementing operational plans that align to strategic direction and considers budgetary controls.

About our benefits 

• 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: Wednesday 12th February 2025 at 23:59.

1st interviews w/c 17th February 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 that 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.