Strategic Lead: Inequities in Cancer Care

Strategic Lead: Inequities in Cancer Care
Fixed Term Contract (12 months) 
Full time (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Hybrid– Split between home and our London Office (London Bridge)
Salary: £77,000 - £85,000

We're excited about these roles and what they'll 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. No one candidate will have everything, but we are looking for people who have: 

• Proven leadership experience in developing and executing ambitious plans to achieve systemic social change
• Experience in leading large or complex pieces of work through matrixed structures such as squads, or in coalitions and partnerships 
• Strong demonstrable stakeholder management skills, able to engage, align and effectively leverage relationships at all levels both internally and with partners
• Demonstrable experience of using insight, data and participative approaches at the heart of your work
• Practical experience of embedding equity into all of your work  
• Knowledge and experience of healthcare management, policy or delivery (ideally in cancer care), and ideally knowledge of the specific topic area you are applying to be Lead of e.g. Inequity in cancer care

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.

We want to:

• Make cancer care equitable for everyone, no matter who you are
• Support those with cancer & also other long-term conditions, and
• Reduce variation in cancer treatment & care, where-ever you live in the UK.

About the role

We're now recruiting for three brilliant leaders to help shape our work in each of these 3 areas and co-ordinate and bring together the org-wide activities that will allow us to deliver them. Working to an accountable Director, you'll lead a (multi-disciplinary) team of colleagues drawn from across the organisation to make joined up plans and co-ordinate  and align our activity. These three leaders will drive a growth culture, ensuring that we learn from what we do and that our own work, as well as that which we do with our partners is a catalyst which for sparking a real revolution in cancer care in these three areas. 

Right now we know that data and evidence about inequities in cancer care aren't good enough, that people living with cancer don't always feel they are treated with dignity and respect, that services aren't always accessible to those who need them most, and that the voice of people living with cancer can get lost in service provision. We want to work with people living with cancer, communities, professionals and the healthcare system to change this. We want everyone to get the best treatment and care, from professionals who understand and respect them.

About you:

We're excited about these roles and what they'll 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. No one candidate will have everything, but we are looking for people who have: 

• Proven leadership experience in developing and executing ambitious plans to achieve systemic social change
• Experience in leading large or complex pieces of work through matrixed structures such as squads, or in coalitions and partnerships 
• Strong demonstrable stakeholder management skills, able to engage, align and effectively leverage relationships at all levels both internally and with partners
• Demonstrable experience of using insight, data and participative approaches at the heart of your work
• Practical experience of embedding equity into all of your work  
• Knowledge and experience of healthcare management, policy or delivery (ideally in cancer care), and ideally knowledge of the specific topic area you are applying to be Lead of e.g. Inequity in cancer care

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

Take a look at our other roles on the Macmillan website:

Strategic Lead: Cancer & Other Health Conditions
Strategic Lead: Variation in Cancer Treatment

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: 17th Feb 2025

First interview dates: Late February 2025 (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 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.