Contract type: Permanent
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Hybrid between home and our London Office, Shipley Office or Glasgow office
Salary Range: £74,000 - £82,000

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.

Lead high quality impactful engagement with people with lived experience

• Lead strategic engagement mechanisms for people with lived experience to shape services and interventions

ABOUT THE ROLE

If you’re passionate about equity, community empowerment, and transforming cancer care, this is your opportunity to lead change at scale.
We’re looking for a dynamic, experienced and inspiring leader to join us as Head of Communities & Participation to drive our organisational ambition to centre participation of people living with cancer in our work.
This is a high-profile, strategic leadership position where you’ll shape and deliver Macmillan’s vision for participation and community engagement across the four nations. This role is about driving game changing impact for people living with cancer, especially those who receive the worst experiences. You’ll be relentless in ensuring communities and people living with cancer are at the heart of our decision-making and service design within Macmillan and drive improvements in how cancer care is experienced across the UK.
You’ll lead the development of inclusive participation routes, prioritising marginalised communities, and drive bold initiatives to truly enable and empower communities. Working across internal teams and external partners, you’ll strengthen and build strategic relationships and leave a legacy of empowered communities that drive change for people living with cancer.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic leadership and team development

• Develop and lead a high performing communities and participation team.
• Act as a senior spokesperson and thought leader, influencing policy and practice across sectors.

Embedding participation across Macmillan

• Play an organisational leadership role ensuring communities and participation is central to Macmillan’s culture and ways of working.
• Develop and embed participation frameworks, policies, and processes across Macmillan.

Community mobilisation and partnership building

• Build and implement community mobilisation strategies that drive local and national change.
• Collaborate with system partners to test and scale anchor organisation models of support.

Developing insight-driven interventions

• Use insight and intelligence to drive targeted, outcome-led interventions.

Lead high quality impactful engagement with people with lived experience

• Lead strategic engagement mechanisms for people with lived experience to shape services and interventions.