Senior Fundraising Events Manager (Virtual and DIY)

Macmillan Cancer Support; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nonprofit organization is seeking a Senior Fundraising Events Manager to lead a team in planning and delivering virtual and DIY fundraising events aimed at raising over £6m for cancer support. The role requires strong leadership skills, project management, and relationship building to ensure successful event execution. This position offers a hybrid working model, alongside a range of employee benefits, including pension matching and flexible working hours.

Benefits

Pension matched up to 7.5%

120+ learning and development offers

Flexible working patterns

Holiday buying and selling scheme

Life insurance

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Experience of motivating teams to deliver projects.
• Responsible for planning, marketing, and delivery of fundraising events.
• Ability to build positive relationships with colleagues and partners.
• Experience of delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns.
• Using data to understand performance and inform plans.
• Proactive in resolving project issues or underperformance.
• Experience managing campaign budget and financial reporting.
• Understanding of the virtual and DIY fundraising market.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 3 fundraising professionals.
• Plan and deliver virtual and DIY fundraising events.
• Develop campaign strategies and lead internal/external relationships.

Skills

Leadership and Management

Project management

Relationship Management

Marketing and Stewardship Skills

Results-focus

Analytical/Solution-focused

Budget Management

Market Knowledge

Job description

Senior Fundraising Events Manager (Virtual and DIY)

Permanent, Full time (34.5 hours). Location – Hybrid split between home and our London Office.

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.

Macmillan Cancer Support provided pay range

This range is provided by Macmillan Cancer Support. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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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 team's 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‑focused: 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:

• 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

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 [e-mail] for advice and reasonable adjustments.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Marketing

Industries

Non‑profit Organisations