External Affairs Manager (Projects)
- United Kingdom
- £53,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
Contract Type Permanent
Full time (34.5 hours) , we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location Home-based or Hybrid - split between home and a Macmillan office (with occasional travel to meetings and/or events when required)
Salary Range £53,000 - £59,000About the roleAre you a senior, experienced policy and public affairs professional, keen to make a difference to the lives of people with cancer? Then this challenging but highly rewarding role could be your opportunity to lead key areas of Macmillan’s UK external affairs work.As part of the External Affairs UK leadership team, you will lead our engagement and influencing activity on Neighbourhood Health, working closely with other teams to deliver national system change for people with cancer.You will act as a senior external representative for Macmillan in the neighbourhood health space, enabling us to be a key player with influential audiences. In conjunction with key stakeholders, you will lead matrix teams to develop and pursue influencing strategies to drive change for people living with cancer.About youThe successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- You will have significant experience in an external affairs role.
- You will have demonstrable experience of leading proactive and reactive external affairs activity.
- Significant experience of delivering successful external affairs strategies which have achieved system change.
- Outstanding relationship skills are essential.
- You will be a skilled communicator who has represented an organisation effectively with external stakeholders.
- You will have an ability to motivate and develop people.
- You will have experience of working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders.
- 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
Interviews will be held on : Thursday 25th September 2025To 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 TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.