Senior Programme Manager - Individual Giving

LLOYD'S REGISTER INTERNATIONAL; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Cancer Research UK is seeking a Senior Programme Manager (Individual Giving) in Stratford to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that grow audiences and supporter engagement. You’ll drive audience-led propositions and supporter journeys, ensuring high-quality delivery from planning through to implementation in a collaborative environment.

Reporting to the Head of Proposition within Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement, you’ll manage multiple stakeholders, foster inclusivity and deliver

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex programmes using agile or waterfall methods.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent facilitation and influencing skills.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, including senior stakeholders.
• Strong planning, budget management and financial monitoring, with Excel proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of audience propositions and end-to-end supporter journeys within budget.
• Coordinate agile cross-functional teams to hit audience, volume, value, and contribution targets.
• Foster end-to-end delivery culture across stakeholder groups.
• Build relationships across Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement, Technology to align priorities.
• Establish governance, risk management and decision-making frameworks.
• Facilitate cross-functional working groups, manage dependencies, risks, issues and changes.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Waterfall methodologies

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Influencing

Communication skills

Planning & budgeting

Excel

Tools

Excel

Job description

Senior Programme Manager

Location: Stratford (2 Redman Place)

Working hours: Full time

Posted: Posted Yesterday

Requisition ID: R034330

Senior Programme Manager - Individual Giving

£56,000- £60,000 plus benefits

Reports to: Head of Proposition

Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 27th September 2026 23:55

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Recruitment process: Competency based interview with task

Interview date: Week commencing 12th October

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We're looking for a motivated Senior Programme Manager (Individual Giving) to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that help grow Cancer Research UK's audiences and supporter engagement.

This role plays a vital part in delivering audience-led propositions and supporter journeys, bringing teams together around shared goals and ensuring high-quality delivery from planning through to implementation. Working collaboratively across multiple disciplines, you'll help create meaningful supporter experiences while acting with ambition, professionalism, inclusivity and a relentless focus on impact.

What will I be doing?

• Lead the delivery of audience propositions and end-to-end supporter journeys, ensuring implementation plans are executed effectively and within budget.
• Coordinate and empower agile cross-functional teams to achieve shared audience, volume, value and contribution objectives.
• Foster a culture of end-to-end delivery, collaboration and shared ownership across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Build strong relationships across Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement, Technology and other functions to align priorities and maximise delivery outcomes.
• Establish effective governance, risk management and decision-making frameworks to support successful delivery.
• Facilitate cross-functional working groups, managing dependencies, risks, issues and changes to implementation plans while driving continuous improvement.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience delivering complex programmes, projects or initiatives using agile and/or waterfall methodologies.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders, suppliers and cross-functional teams within a complex environment.
• Excellent facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to drive outcomes while empowering others to make decisions.
• Strong problem-solving, conflict resolution and decision-making capabilities.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage senior stakeholders and explain complex information clearly.
• Strong planning, budget management and financial monitoring skills, alongside proficiency with Microsoft applications including Excel.

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination

Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism

Human: Act to have a positive impact on people

Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

Eligibility criteria

Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period before applying for other roles. You should also advise your current line manager at the point you make an internal application, or at the latest, at the point of being invited for an interview.

All internal candidates applying for a secondment, must have:

• completed their getting started period
• discussed their intention to apply and gained approval to apply with their line manager
• been in their substantive (home) role for at least 6 months (this is only applicable if you have previously been on secondment)

If you do not confirm that you meet these requirements, we will not be able to progress your application.

For information about internal learning and development at Cancer Research UK please visit Fuse.

What will I gain?

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.