System Fund Manager

Job Title: System Fund Manager
Contract Type: Permanent 
Full time: 34.5 hours a week
Location: Mobile Worker - there is an expectation that there will be frequent travel to meet partners across the UK.
Salary Range: £62,000 - £68,000

We are currently recruiting a number of roles across this team as part of a wider campaign. Please visit  Macmillan - Welcome to find out more about these opportunities.

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. 

The role: You’ll help drive meaningful system change by leading the delivery of our System Fund grant programmes, working closely with health systems, community partners and people with lived experience of cancer. You’ll manage and implement the full grant life-cycle from application to evaluation, supporting innovation, learning and collaboration between funded partners. From overseeing funding decisions to creating spaces for partners to learn from one another, you’ll help turn good ideas into lasting improvements in cancer outcomes and experience.

Full details of the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached role profile. 

Key Skills & Experience

• Experience delivering grant or innovation funds in health, public sector or voluntary, community and social enterprise settings
• Strong programme and portfolio management skills, including budgets, governance and risk
• Confident working across health systems and with community and voluntary sector partners
• Ability to use insight and evaluation to track impact and inform improvement
• Experience designing or supporting learning programmes or peer networks
• Strong relationship-building skills and commitment to equity and inclusion

This role is for you if… you want to use grant funding to unlock system change and learn how we can work together to deliver better, fairer outcomes for people affected by cancer.

Recruitment process:

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please apply as early as possible to allow you to prepare for assessments which will take place from the 18th May onwards. These will be in person at our London office. 

If you have any questions about this role, please contact us at transformcancercare@macmillan.org.uk.

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.