Strategic Participation Manager

Strategic Participation Manager
Contract type: Permanent 
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Hybrid between home and our London Office, Shipley Office or Glasgow office
Salary Range: £55,000 - £61,000

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

Are you passionate about putting lived experience at the heart of an organisation’s work and decision-making?

We’re looking for a Strategic Participation Manager to lead our internal participation team and ensure the voices of people living with cancer are embedded in our decision-making and design.

In this rewarding role, you’ll translate Macmillan’s organisational goals into a robust participation framework and operational plan. You’ll oversee a portfolio of high-impact projects, partner with teams across the organisation, and ensure our participation communities are informed, engaged, and supported. 

You’ll work closely with Strategic Communities Managers to align internal and external engagement strategies and collaborate with enabling functions to embed participation into our processes, governance, and workforce capability.  

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of Macmillan’s internal participation strategy. 
• Oversee a prioritised plan for participation across flagship projects and organisational initiatives. 
• Partner with colleagues to embed lived experience into governance, planning, and evaluation. 
• Ensure participation routes are inclusive, accessible, and representative of diverse communities. 
• Manage the participation budget and report on progress against key metrics. 
• Facilitate networking and outreach events to amplify the voices of people living with cancer. 
• Provide line management to Participation and Stewardship Officers and ensure effective matrix management.

About you

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Experience in participation and co-production approaches. 
• 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 in operational planning, budget management, and evaluation. 
• Experience of developing processes that improve efficiency and effectiveness of teams.
• A commitment to equity, inclusion, and amplifying underrepresented voices. 

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: Thursday 28th August
Interview date: Wednesday 17th September

Please note: Interviews will be held in person at our London office. This will involve two parts: a panel interview, and a facilitated session with people living with cancer and community organisation representatives. More details will be shared with shortlisted candidates. 

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.