Relationship Fundraising Manager

Macmillan Cancer Support; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Macmillan Cancer Support is seeking a Relationship Fundraising Manager to drive income growth across the Yorkshire, North East, and Cumbria regions. This full-time position requires strong account management and communication skills to enhance supporter engagement and raise awareness of the charity's vital services. Join a dedicated team and help shape the future of cancer care.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options

Pension matched up to 7.5%

Access to 120+ learning and development offers

Flexible working patterns

Life insurance and retail discounts

Qualifications

• Solid account management experience with proven ability to build rapport.
• Strong planning, organizational, and multitasking skills.
• Impactful written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive income growth by building relationships with supporters.
• Raise awareness of vital services and enhance community presence.
• Proactively acquire new business and relationships for fundraising.

Skills

Account Management

Communication

Organizational Skills

Multitasking

Influencing Skills

Job description

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Relationship Fundraising Manager - based in Yorkshire, North East and Cumbria

Permanent

Full time (34.5 hours per week), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours

Location - Mobile worker in Yorkshire, North East and Cumbria

Salary Range - £35,200 to £39,200 + benefits + car allowance

About the role

It’s an exciting time to join Macmillan Cancer Support as we launch our new five-year strategy and work towards delivering our vision to do whatever it takes to get every person the best support today and spark a revolution in cancer care for the future.

In this rewarding role, you will be within a team of four Relationship Fundraising Managers and play your part to drive income growth across the region by building valuable relationships with supporters and delivering tailored stewardship to a variety of audiences.

You will boost Macmillan’s presence in communities, raising awareness of our vital services and the difference they can make.

Your innovative ideas, personalised guidance and support will help supporters achieve their fundraising goals while acknowledging each person’s individual journey, and highlighting the profound impact their contributions will make for people living with cancer.

About you

The skills and experience we are looking for in the role are:

• Solid account management experience with the proven ability to build rapport and develop relationships while understanding the needs of a variety of individuals, organisations and groups.
• You will place our supporters at the heart of everything you do by creating personalised and thoughtful solutions to deliver a first-class supporter experience.
• Strong planning, organisational, and multitasking skills to meet deadlines and achieve both team and individual goals, including managing relationships with Macmillan supporters, volunteer groups and meeting key metrics such as, supporter retention and increasing fundraising targets.
• Impactful written and verbal communication and influencing skills to enable you to engage, inspire and deliver key messages combined with experience of collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Proactively acquire new business and new relationships through targeted acquisition including research, completion of applications, and presentations to supporters/companies/groups to secure new income and/or relationships.

This role is home-based with mobile working. Your home base needs to be in the stated region (or close to the area) as on a weekly basis you can expect to work across the region to meet with supporter’s face to face approximately 2 to 3 days a week. As such, you must have a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle or the ability to travel frequently across the region.

There will be a requirement to attend in-person team meetings based in the area on a quarterly basis and other parts of the UK when our wider fundraising territory and department get together.

There will also be a requirement for flexible and out of hours working to support occasional evening and weekend activity and you will be compensated for this with time off in lieu.

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

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.

Recruitment Process

First stage interviews - Tuesday 1st July 2025

Second stage interviews - Wednesday 9th July 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 [e-mail] for advice and reasonable adjustments.

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