Virtual Fundraising Events Manager

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

Job summary

A leading charitable organization in the UK is seeking a Challenge Events Programme Manager to lead virtual and DIY fundraising events. This role involves managing campaigns to raise significant funds alongside ensuring supporter engagement. The ideal candidate will have experience in marketing campaigns and a proactive approach to project management. Flexible hybrid working is supported, with responsibilities spanning across event planning and stakeholder collaboration.

Benefits

Pension matched up to 7.5%

120+ learning and development offers

Flexible working patterns

Holiday buying and selling scheme

Qualifications

• Experience of delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns or management of complex projects.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering mass-scale stewardship campaigns.
• Proactive approach to resolving project blockers.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of a portfolio of virtual and DIY fundraising events.
• Responsible for recruitment through paid and organic marketing.
• Provide sector-leading stewardship to engage supporters.

Skills

Multi-channel marketing campaigns

Mass-scale stewardship campaigns

Using data for decision-making

Project management

Building positive relationships

Job description

Base pay range

Permanent appointment

Full time (34.5 hours)

Location: Hybrid between home and a Macmillan office (see what this looks like in the advert text)

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.

About the role

You will lead on the delivery of a 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 recruitment through paid and organic marketing and providing a sector-leading stewardship journey to ensure our supporters feel engaged and inspired from the moment they sign-up, working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders to achieve this.

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 Challenge Events Programme Manager.

About you

• Experience of delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns or management of complex projects, in line with agreed budgets and schedules
• Demonstrable experience of delivering mass-scale stewardship campaigns
• Experience of using data or insight to understand performance, make decisions and inform plans
• A proactive approach to resolving project blockers, conflict or underperformance
• An ability to build positive relationships with colleagues and external partners, which enable productive collaboration on projects
• Familiarity with leading individuals or groups to deliver a project, campaign or collective goal

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

About hybrid working in this role

We have three offices; our Head Office in London and two workspaces based in Shipley and Glasgow. There are no fixed weekly office days for this role, and we support flexible, hybrid working arrangements. In terms of requirements for in-person attendance, the postholder will be expected to attend Challenge Events Away Days (quarterly), Virtual & DIY team meetings (quarterly) and reviews or planning meetings with key suppliers (these will be infrequent and arranged with as much notice as possible).

Recruitment Process

Application deadline is 23:59 on Tuesday 14 October 2025.

Interviews will be held in the afternoon of 21 and 22 October 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 we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team for advice and reasonable adjustments.

Equity and inclusion

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 and our internal employee representation body help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Management, Other, and Business Development

Industries

Non-profit Organizations